There is something deeply wrong with young people in this country.
There&#8217;s something bizarre going on in the New York City mayoral election. People don&#8217;t actually love Zohran Mamdani’s policies, but he&#8217;s likely to win anyway.
A poll released on Tuesday found 58% of respondents feared that making buses free could make them into roaming homeless shelters, while 33% believe all fares should be eliminated. Thus, by a 25% margin, people believe that Mamdani’s free bus idea is incredibly stupid.
His proposal to get rid of the city&#8217;s gifted and talented program is wildly unpopular. 64% of the same voters who are giving a plurality of their vote to Mamdani believe that gifted and talented programs should be expanded. Only 21% believe that it should be scaled back in early grades.
When it comes to repealing bail reform laws and returning to the bail system before 2019, 55% want to go back to the system before “no cash bail.” Only 29% support the current program, which is what Mamdani backs.
Mamdani’s policies are not that popular among voters.
So why is he popular?
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<li> He&#8217;s running against lousy competition. Andrew Cuomo is a particularly bad candidate.</li>
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<li> Generation Z. Generation Z is the most Left generation by a country mile. It is not close. They are far to the left of the general population on every single issue. The bizarre idea on the Right that Generation Z is going to carry us forward into a conservative future is not supported by any hard evidence.</li>
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In the latest <a href="https://www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suffolk/documents/academics/research-at-suffolk/suprc/polls/other-states/2025/10_27_2025_new_york_city_press_release.pdf?la=en&amp;hash=29E66C2E3D25A148940F2E3BB98DAC3E5A7C6D6F">Suffolk poll</a> on the New York City mayoral race, in which Mamdani is leading Cuomo 44% to 34%, Mamdani trails among all voters age 45+; among voters aged 35 to 44, he runs ahead by about 23 points against Cuomo, but among voters who are 18 to 34, Mamdani leads by a whopping 61 points.
That means he has support in the high 70s among people 18 to 34 voting in New York City, according to that poll. And this is not a rarity. Polls of young people show that they are wildly to the left of their forebears on virtually every single issue right now.
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What is going wrong? Why are young people like this now?
There&#8217;s always been an explanation that young people are naïve; they don&#8217;t pay taxes; they&#8217;re not ushered into an actual real life where they&#8217;re participating in the normal institutions of daily activity. Thus, they can kind of live in “airy fairy” land, where everything is handed to them on a silver platter.
There&#8217;s truth to that. We have delayed adulthood for young people all the way into their thirties.
But there&#8217;s something else going on, too: Young people have been told that they never have to enter adulthood. They have been told that everything ought to be handed to them, and that when things are not handed to them, it&#8217;s because they themselves have some sort of deep, abiding illness, or society itself is victimizing them in some way.
All the things that would normally usher you into a more mature view of life — getting married, having kids, holding a job, and paying taxes — are things Generation Z is apparently not interested in doing and doesn&#8217;t believe that they will ever do.
This is not because Gen Z is some sort of truly victimized generation in all the history of all the humans on all the planet. The idea that American Generation Z is somehow the greatest victimhood class we&#8217;ve ever had is insane and bizarre. In fact, more Generation Z people hold degrees than millennials and Gen Xers did at their age. Generation Z will be the largest and richest generation in American history within just ten years.
So what&#8217;s going wrong? What exactly is happening? 
We have to understand that there is a radical thing that is happening with young people — on both the Left and the Right.
On the Left, there is a grievance culture that is resulting in revolutionary thinking, and on the Right, a grievance culture that is resulting in a different kind of revolutionary thinking. There&#8217;s some horseshoe theory going on, and these two revolutionary movements can sometimes hold hands.
You see it in a crystallized fashion with the Mamdani campaign. Canary Mission, which is a nonprofit that examines political issues from a right-leaning perspective, examined the impact of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has had an outsized impact on the Democratic Party.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a charter member of the DSA. Mamdani is a DSA guy. The DSA is the jet fuel for the modern Democratic Party. This is not a Left-leaning, mildly progressive movement; this is a truly revolutionary movement.
How does that kind of movement take over the Democratic Party? Where does it come from? The answer is that it&#8217;s been inculcated by the Boomers for generations. The Boomers and the Millennials are responsible for their children. If your child ends up being a radical, it&#8217;s difficult to say that you had nothing to do with it.
The Boomers and the Millennials decided to inculcate a brand of vague anti-Americanism that then metastasized into a very virulent, cancerous form of anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism.
This is why whenever I hear parents talk about their kids and they say, “I&#8217;m just giving them the tools to think; I&#8217;m not telling them what to think, what values to hold,” that&#8217;s bad parenting.
You should be telling your kids what values to hold. That is the most important thing you should be doing as a parent: becoming part of that chain that Edmund Burke talks about between the past and the future, maintaining the wisdom of generations, and passing that on to your kids.
If you&#8217;re not doing that, you&#8217;re not doing your job as a parent. Instead, parents have been farming out their kids to universities filled with radicals, who then teach the kids radical politics.
We tell an entire generation of people that they are victims of a system that has made them the most wealthy, prosperous, and free people in the history of planet Earth. And then we sell them the soap that if you grant power to one of these people, one of these revolutionaries, they will fix all of their problems.
There are a lot of politicians willing to sell that soap.
The left-wing version of the grievance campaign is that America is an awful, terribly racist place that has aggrieved Third World minorities and cracked down on gays and lesbians and therefore must be brought low by the revolutionaries, that capitalism has brought us all to this horrible fate.
On the Right, there is an equal and opposite movement. It is growing in power. It is not taking over the Republican Party yet, but it&#8217;s attempting to. And that right-wing movement is saying the same thing, except the victims are white Christian males, and the idea would be that white Christian males have been brought low by the system, and that therefore the only corrective action is a complete revolution against capitalism, meritocracy, and all the rest.
In the seed of both of these movements, there is a grain of truth. There is truth to the idea that America, historically speaking, was not good to black people, and historically speaking, was not good to certain classes of immigrants. But it’s a flaw in the system, not a feature of the system.
The same thing is true on the Right. When people say white Christian males have been put under the boot by the system, there&#8217;s certainly truth to the idea that there is discriminatory policy — both socially and in governmental policy — that has discriminated against white Christian males over the course of the last 30, 40, 50 years. There&#8217;s truth to that.
But the idea that such actions are emblematic of the constitutional system or meritocracy or capitalism, and the only solution is some sort of dictatorship of the white Christian male proletariat overthrowing constitutional norms and boundaries, going after minorities, is just as revolutionary from the opposite point of view.
The vast majority of Americans are normies. The vast majority of Americans like meritocracy. The vast majority of Americans believe in the traditional American dream, meaning economic progress for them and for their children, meaning the capacity to build community and church and life in freedom. The vast majority of Americans like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The vast majority of Americans like America.
But if you let the radical revolutionary vanguard take over your party with some sort of benighted idea that you must unite with the radicals in order to achieve victory, you&#8217;re not going to achieve victory. And the victory that you achieve will be pyrrhic, because you will have sacrificed what you actually care about to people who hate that very thing.
If this were really working out great for the young, why are they so depressed? Why are they so upset? Why are they so anxious? Why aren&#8217;t they getting married or reproducing?
Inculcating a victimhood grievance mentality in an entire generation of people doesn&#8217;t just inhibit the working of the country, it makes those people miserable as well.
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New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Campaigns Ahead Of Election Day

The Infantilization Of A Generation: How America’s Youth Falls For The Politics Of Grievance

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Gen Z

Leftists

Mayor

New York City

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U.S. Politics

Zohran Mamdani

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a dire warning to New Yorkers ahead of the imminent mayoral election, saying that things were likely to get much worse if they elect self-described democratic socialist assemblyman Zohran Mamdani to fill the office.
Cruz, during the most recent episode of &#8220;Verdict,&#8221; told cohost Ben Ferguson that he could foresee several different potential outcomes that might result from Mamdani&#8217;s election — and none of them were good for the people of the Big Apple.
&#8220;Look, Comrade Mamdani is apparently the future of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is now explicitly, openly, unapologetically communist and unapologetically jihadist,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;This guy is so extreme, and yet the Democrats in New York don&#8217;t seem to care &#8230; Yet, given the choice between a solidly left-wing democrat and a full-on communist and I believe America hating jihadist. It sure looks like I hope these polls are wrong, and maybe a burst of sanity will pull us back.&#8221;
Cruz followed his opening salvo with a defense of his assessment, saying that he was drawing from Mamdani&#8217;s own previous statements to make his determinations: &#8220;When I call him a communist jihadist, I call him a communist because he&#8217;s called for, among other things, seizing the means of production, which is the very essence of the economic core of communism.&#8221;
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&#8220;People are going to die if and when Comrade Mamdani is elected, that is going to be the concept,&#8221; Cruz continued.
He went on to say that there would be some who saw benefits from Mamdani&#8217;s election — but the average citizens of New York City would not be among them.
&#8220;If comrade Mamdani is elected, I&#8217;m going to make a nomination right now, which is a year from now, I want to name him the Conservative Party of New York Man of the Year, because Comrade Mamdani is going to make more people join the conservative party in New York than anyone has in history, as they realize these people are nuts,&#8221; Cruz explained.
He then added that the only businesses likely to thrive under the weight of communist leadership were the companies that helped people move away, out of their reach.
&#8220;Not only is he going to drive New Yorkers to join the Republican Party and the Conservative Party, but he is going to result, he is going to rent more U-Hauls than the very best Willy Loman salesman that has ever been in U-Haul of people moving from New York and coming to Texas and coming to Florida, and anyone with any sense is going to get out of this,&#8221; he said.
Critics have long been warning that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mamdani&#8217;s plan</a> to tax the rich and tax corporations that do business in New York — even if they don&#8217;t have offices there — was likely to send everyone who could afford to move running for the hills.

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Ted Cruz Issues Grim Warning To New Yorkers If Mamdani Is Elected

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Ted Cruz

In a moment ripped straight from the sidelines at Talladega, Governor Kathy Hochul claimed on Monday that when a crowd of New Yorkers began chanting &#8220;Tax the rich!&#8221; at a rally for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, all she&#8217;d heard was, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Bills!&#8221;
Hochul gave the implausible explanation when she was asked about the chanting and whether she would stand firm on not raising taxes despite Mamdani&#8217;s repeated calls for higher taxes on wealthy New Yorkers — and on corporations that do business in the city, whether they are located within the city limits or not.
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Kathy Hochul oddly drags Buffalo Bills into ‘tax the rich’ chant that overwhelmed her appearance at Zohran Mamdani rally <a href="https://t.co/tTLLtrO6Nv">https://t.co/tTLLtrO6Nv</a> <a href="https://t.co/1vBIiNrzL6">pic.twitter.com/1vBIiNrzL6</a>
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&#8220;Given the reception that you received last night at Zohran&#8217;s rally where people were chanting, &#8216;Tax the rich, Tax the rich,&#8217; are you going to hold the line on raising taxes even if it means losing an endorsement or getting a primary challenge?&#8221; the New York Post&#8217;s Stephen Vago asked.
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t hear what they were chanting,&#8221; Hochul claimed, before adding, &#8220;I thought they were saying, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go [Buffalo] Bills.&#8217; I wasn&#8217;t sure. When you&#8217;re up there, I heard some noise. I heard a lot of cheers. But later on it became clear to me that there&#8217;s a — I know there&#8217;s a passion for that.&#8221;
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Hochul left out the fact that she was in New York City at the time — where they have two NFL teams — and therefore a little over six hours away from Buffalo, New York, by car. She went on to say that she really hoped Democrats could harness the &#8220;energy&#8221; behind those cheers in order to win back control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) shot back, &#8220;The #BillsMafia won’t forget. What a trainwreck @KathyHochul is every single day.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BillsMafia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BillsMafia</a> won’t forget
What a trainwreck <a href="https://twitter.com/KathyHochul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KathyHochul</a> is every single day. <a href="https://t.co/dBgS5giRI2">https://t.co/dBgS5giRI2</a>
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1982901908508754197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Others pointed out how similar that moment was to the time the &#8220;Let&#8217;s go, Brandon&#8221; chant was born — when NBC reporter Kelli Stavast heard a crowd of NASCAR fans at Talladega chanting &#8220;F*** Joe Biden&#8221; and claimed she believed they&#8217;d been chanting &#8220;Let&#8217;s go, Brandon&#8221; to cheer on winning driver Brandon Brown.

New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Holds Election Rally With Bernie Sanders And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

WATCH: Hochul Says She Thought Socialists Chanting ‘Tax The Rich’ At Her Were Saying ‘Let’s Go Bills’

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Gives Address on Islamophobia In NYC

Muslims Are The Real Victims Of 9/11, According To Zohran Mamdani

9/11

Matt Walsh

Muslims

Radical Islam

We now know the real victim of 9/11. 
Zohran Mamdani’s family members.
Over the course of the weekend, Mamdani decided to talk extensively about 9/11 and his feelings about it.
At a press conference in the Bronx, he decided that the real victim of 9/11, the real true victim of 9/11 — where roughly 3,000 Americans were murdered in the worst Islamist terrorist attack ever — was his auntie, who, according to Mamdani, rode the subway and may or may not have received a mean look.
“I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City,” Mamdani proclaimed. “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
He is such a fraud. The fake tears. If you buy into this fraudulent human, you are a fool.
Zohran Mamdani has somehow transformed 9/11, the worst terror event ever on American soil and the worst event in the history of New York City, into a sad story about American Islamophobia.
Do you understand what he&#8217;s doing? The idea is that if he is not elected, the same Islamophobia will be responsible for preventing him from being mayor of New York.
The problem is not his pro-jihadist leanings, which we have detailed multiple times. The problem is not that he has stood for globalizing the intifada, or the Holy Land Five, or that he posed alongside an unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
That&#8217;s not the problem.
The problem — according to Mamdani — is all of you who are mean to him about those things because you are Islamophobic.
He&#8217;s doing the Norm MacDonald joke in which Norm joked that if there were a nuclear bomb set off by Islamic terrorists in the middle of New York City, he would be afraid for the real victims: the Muslims in New York City.
This is what Mamdani is doing now, and it doesn&#8217;t stop there. He&#8217;s making this a central plank of his campaign. Many of the things that people think of as bugs in the Mamdani campaign are features of the Mamdani campaign.
People look at Mamdani and say, “What a weird campaign. Why is he running on Islamophobia? Why doesn’t he just run as a normal progressive Democrat?”
They don&#8217;t understand. These features are the reason a bunch of left-wing Democrats are going to vote for him — and do so enthusiastically. Without the victimhood, he would be a nothing burger. A nothing burger stacked atop a nothing sandwich atop a gigantic junkyard of nothing.
It is the victimhood alone that has elevated Zohran Mamdani.
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Now, you may say to yourself, “Wait, he&#8217;s not a victim. Didn&#8217;t his family immigrate from Uganda? Not exactly a nice place to live. And he still holds dual citizenship with Uganda. Aren&#8217;t his parents wealthy? Didn&#8217;t his dad teach at Columbia, and his mom have a career as a film producer? How could this complete, utter, useless human being, a leech on the fat rump of the United States, be a victim?”
The answer is that at some time, somewhere, someone gave him a mean look because of Islamophobia.
The term “Islamophobia” is very often just a cover for “Don&#8217;t criticize radical Islam. If you criticize radical Islam, that&#8217;s a form of Islamophobia.”
Islamophobia is a weird charge because when you look at someone, unless they&#8217;re wearing religious garb, it is very difficult to be Islamophobic. You don&#8217;t even know that they&#8217;re Muslim. Islam is a religion. Islam is not a race. If you saw Zohran Mamdani on the street, you&#8217;d have a hard time pegging his ethnicity, let alone his religion.
But according to Mamdani, the real problem here is for Americans to unravel an unreasoning, irrational fear of Muslims.
Every accusation from Mamdani is an admission. No one has engaged in more bigotry in this campaign than Zohran Mamdani. It is a form of bigotry to endorse “globalize the intifada,” and “Hamas should not disarm.” It&#8217;s bigotry against non-terrorists.
Zohran Mamdani is 33 years old. 9/11 happened 24 years ago — he was nine when 9/11 happened.
I&#8217;m about eight years older than Zohran Mamdani, so I remember 9/11 pretty well because I was a late teen already, and I remember the extraordinary efforts that the federal government, state government, and city government of New York went through in order to tamp down on “Islamophobia.” George W. Bush gave full speeches about how radical Islam was not the same as normal mainstream Islam, how radical Islam was a perversion of Islam, and that there shouldn&#8217;t be any sort of backlash against Muslims. Then the city of New York did the same thing.
Mamdani whining about the treatment of Muslims in a country that is wildly, wildly Muslim-friendly is totally insane. The city of New York, by the way, is now 11% Muslim, which is the same percentage of the Jewish population. We always hear about the big Jewish population in New York. And that&#8217;s true. The same exact population is Muslim in New York now.
Is there radical discrimination against Muslims in New York? By what metric?
How is it that Mamdani can talk about 9/11 and not spare one sentence for the actual victims, the people who leaped to their deaths from the 19th story of the World Trade Center, the people who were crushed beneath millions of pounds of molten steel? Not to mention the firefighters, and the people who got cancer years later from all the dust and debris.
Nothing for them, but his aunt, who got a mean look?
No wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes followed 9/11. Not in New York, nor anywhere else.
Without Mamdani claiming victimhood, he&#8217;s got nothing. Nothing. His program is trash. His candidacy is smugness and ugliness masquerading as kindness. He hates the things that make America go. He hates capitalism. He hates traditional Judeo/Christian religion. He hates traditional values. He hates America&#8217;s role in the world. That&#8217;s who this guy is.
And yet, somehow, this guy, who is apparently rich in the coin of victimhood and one of the least victimized people I have ever conceived of, is a victim.
There&#8217;s been a lot of talk on the Right about the death of wokeness, how wokeness is dying.
No. Wokeness is in remission. It is not dying. The cancer is not yet dead. Wokeness is in remission because wokeness is rooted in the idea that there&#8217;s an internal American victimhood system, and this class of victims cannot be identified by their level of success in American society or prosperity or notoriety. It can be identified specifically by levels of racial diversity and by nontraditional background.
As long as that matrix is undergirding everything that is happening, wokeness is not dead. It&#8217;s just waiting. It&#8217;s just waiting for a sunnier season to burst through the icy frost that has crossed the woke landscape.
There will be a thaw. Mamdani is the thaw, the green shoot of wokeness springing up beneath that permafrost.
That is what he is.
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Mamdani’s 9/11 Insanity

Ben Shapiro

Jihadists are not hijacking planes anymore. They are hijacking leftists. 
 
Two years ago, Hamas terrorists committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In one night, Hamas killed 1,200 men, women, and children; raped and assaulted countless women and girls; and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.
But on this year’s anniversary of October 7, leftists took to the streets of New York City clad in keffiyehs and <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1975683499903291713?s=12&amp;t=nnkH5SpU6p7k0VsIc0xI0A">waving Hamas’ flag,</a> <a href="https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1975976376026247606">chanting praises for the massacre.</a>
The scene from NYC was not spontaneous. It was another episode in a decades-long bloodless revolution. In a <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/document/20-an-explanatory-memorandum-on-the-general">1991 memorandum,</a> the Muslim Brotherhood, a forerunner to Hamas, detailed its strategy for jihad in America. Brother Mohamed Akram wrote:
<blockquote>The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within. (Emphasis added).</blockquote>
The New York City rally is proof that, 35 years after Akram penned this plan, jihadists have succeeded in hijacking leftists.
Leading them are the <a href="https://canarymission.org/campaign/Mamdanis_DSA#Who-is-the-DSA?">Democratic Socialists of America</a>. The DSA boasts 80,000 members and 400 community chapters, and notable members of the party include New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — who, on the campaign trail, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/mamdani-appears-smiling-arm-in-arm-with-imam-siraj-wahhaj-93-wtc-bombing-co-conspirator/">posed for a picture</a> with an unindicted conspirator in the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The DSA’s leaders explicitly say that their group exists to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.” <a href="https://canarymission.org/campaign/Mamdanis_DSA#Current-Leadership:~:text=%E2%80%9Ca%20unique%20responsibility%20to%20act%20from%20the%20heart%20of%20empire%2C%20the%20belly%20of%20the%20beast%2C%E2%80%9D%20adding%20that%20%E2%80%9Cthe%20most%20important%20thing%20that%20we%20can%20do%20is%20take%20that%20empire%20down%20from%20within.%E2%80%9D">Francis Gill</a>, an elected board member, said the DSA has “a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast” to take the “empire down from within.”
Ahmed Husain, director of activism for the DSA, said in a web seminar: &#8220;We&#8217;re inside the home of empire &#8230; As they [Hamas] fight there, we fight here &#8230; we&#8217;re doing our part our duty in this fight against empire.&#8221; Sounds familiar.
In June, leader <a href="https://x.com/snackvampire/status/1933397152442822730">Mirah Wood tweeted</a>: “Death to Israel, death to America.”
This leftist-jihadi alliance makes almost no sense — American leftists should recognize the glaring illiberality of radical Islam. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-taliban-bans-women-mid-wives-education-work-b2659927.html">In Afghanistan</a>, for example, women cannot speak or show their faces in public; and, in the Middle East and North Africa, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/mena/media/17696/file/ChildMarriage-Factsheet-Feb22.pdf%20.pdf">700,000 child brides</a> marry Muslim men every year. Add to that <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-pakistans-rape-culture-led-to-the-uk-grooming-gangs/">rape culture</a>, pervasive and violent <a href="https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/stories/10-most-dangerous-places-Christians/">persecution of Christians</a>, and the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/14/countries-where-being-gay-is-legally-punishable-by-death/39574685/">death penalty for homosexuality</a>.  
But, for leftists, logic doesn’t matter as long as America is dismantled. The ends justify the means, and as the proverb goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Hand in hand with leftists blinded by Marxism, jihadists have set in motion their “Civilization-Jihadist Process”:
In Dearborn, Michigan, <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1976264850268360855">residents hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day</a> and <a href="https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1976507193621905417">Islamists flood streets waving foreign flags</a>.
On college campuses across the country, radicalized students <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/harvard-settles-with-jewish-student-who-sued-school-for-ignoring-campus-antisemitism/">harass their Jewish peers</a> and <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/02/timeline-the-gaza-solidarity-encampment/">seize university property.</a>  
And on the New York streets once darkened by the devastation of the 9/11 attack, leftists now praise the very jihad that inspired terrorists to fly two planes into the World Trade Center.
It is clear America has a jihad problem approaching hard and fast from the left. If the United States is to remain rooted in its founding principles — religious liberty, free markets, Christian ethics, and the dignity and equality of the sexes — Americans must resist the “global intifada” unfolding in our streets, universities, and halls of power.
How? Leftists embrace jihad because they hate America. Resistance, then, must be a patriotic love of America and her values: hard work, merit, marriage, family, service, worship, civic engagement, college football, daddy-daughter dances, Mom’s sweet iced tea, and borrowing eggs from the neighbors. The only thing Leftists and jihadists have in common is hatred for America.
That unity is shallow. But patriotism runs 50 states and 250 years deep.
Average Americans should love America. Professors and universities should teach love of country, and elected officials should serve the American people — not dismantle the country.
Good faith debate, civil disagreement, and the democratic process must stand. But they cannot bear good fruit absent a common affection for fellow man and country.
On 9/11, jihadists broke America — but only for a moment. From the ashes of that tragedy came a stronger American resolve and a unifying love of country.
Today, jihadists want to destroy America slowly, from within. But love of country can defeat jihadists again.
Hannah Lape is Legislative Assistant for the <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee</a>, dedicated to promoting Biblical values and Constitutional principles in public policy.
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A Palestinian child and member of the Islamic Jihad movement

America Has a Jihad Problem. How Will We Defeat It? 

Islamic Jihad

Leftism

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Sunday acknowledged that much of the country thinks New Yorkers who embrace her socialist views and those of New York City Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are crazy.
Speaking at a rally for Mamdani titled “New York is Not for Sale,” held at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, AOC declared, “We must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City. We are not the outlandish ones, New York City. They want us to think we are crazy.”
She then launched into her typical anti-Israel rhetoric and laundry list of leftist demands from the government: “We are sane to demand affordable and decent housing, a decent wage, the right to health care, that we pay to care for our people instead of the flattening of Palestinians and oppressed people abroad.”
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When New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul — who has endorsed Mamdani — <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/26/mamdani-seeks-to-unite-sanders-aoc-and-hochul-00623500?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a>, the crowd began chanting, “Tax the rich!” She capitulated, “I hear you, I love to see this energy and this passion.”
Mamdani, obviously pleased with the chant, laughed, “Hell, yeah. Obviously.” He later <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/27/our-work-has-only-just-begun-mamdani-sanders-and-aoc-rally-the-faithful-ahead-of-nyc-mayoral-election?utm_source=chatgpt.com">pronounced</a>, “Our work has only just begun. On 4 November we set ourselves free.”
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Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist prescriptions have <a href="https://www.ocasiocortez.com/issues?utm">included</a> a massive 70% marginal tax rate on income above $10 million, making public colleges tuition-free and canceling all federal student debt, pushing the Green New Deal, which would cost trillions of dollars, pushing Medicare for All, which, according to economists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget could cost between $30–40 trillion over 10 years, and championing rent control, which could reduce housing supply by discouraging new construction and maintenance.
In mid-October, after Ocasio-Cortez joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a CNN town hall to discuss the government shutdown and repeatedly attacked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Johnson fired back, “With every ounce of Christian character that I can muster … bless her heart.”
“With every ounce of Christian character that I can muster, Laura, let me just say, bless her heart,” Johnson replied. “This would be comical if it were not so dangerous. You’re looking at the two leaders of the modern Democratic Party. We say all the time, ‘This is not your father’s party.’ It’s not. These guys are full Marxists. You hear how vapid their ideology is; what empty suits they are.”

‘New York is Not For Sale’ rally at Forest Hills Stadium

AOC: Our Critics Are The ‘Crazy Ones’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani Holds “Our Time Has Come” Rally

Foreign Socialist Mamdani Doesn’t Want To Assimilate Into America. He Wants Us To Assimilate To Him.

American History

Democrats

MSNBC

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attempted to tie President Abraham Lincoln — America&#8217;s first Republican president — to Democratic socialism based on one line from his famed Gettysburg Address.
Sanders joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where the cohosts pressed him on everything from the ongoing government shutdown to his recent campaign stops with New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist.
Cohost Sara Haines asked about the shutdown, and Sanders brushed off the idea of a standalone vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies — one of the main sticking points for Democrats as the shutdown drags on — despite a promise from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to hold such a vote.
Sanders claimed that he wanted to end the shutdown &#8220;tomorrow,&#8221; but that he couldn&#8217;t vote to reopen the government as long as Republicans refused to undo the parts of the Big Beautiful Bill that he didn&#8217;t like.
&#8220;50,000 people will die unnecessarily every single year,&#8221; Sanders insisted, waving his hands to punctuate his point. &#8220;50,000 of our fellow Americans.&#8221;
He then claimed that Trump and Republicans were taking away health insurance from the poor in order to &#8220;pay for&#8221; a tax break for the wealthy.
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Sunny Hostin praises Sanders for campaigning far-left extremist Zohran Mamdani and tees him up to call on Democrats to move further to the left:
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Cohost Sunny Hostin pivoted to ask about Mamdani, saying, &#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race: Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. He&#8217;s leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?&#8221;
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&#8220;You know what? People are saying here&#8217;s a radical idea,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;This is what Democratic Socialism basically means: let&#8217;s have a government that works for all the people, not just the billionaire class. Let&#8217;s end a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires in both political parties to determine who wins elections.&#8221;
Sanders concluded by suggesting that Lincoln was actually talking about the same goal when he gave the Gettysburg Address: &#8220;Let&#8217;s try to create the kind of democracy that Lincoln talked about way back when, when he said &#8216;a government of the people, by the people, for the people.'&#8221;

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Abraham Lincoln

Bernie Sanders

The View

There&#8217;s been a lot of talk lately about the radicalism problem on the Right. It is, indeed, a problem that exists.
But is it nearly as mainstream as it is on the Left? Has it been imbibed? Has it been ingested? Has it been sucked into the great maw of the party and turned into the mainstream position on the Right?
The answer, of course, is no.
But on the Left, the answer is very much yes.
The Democratic Party has decided to let the radicals run the show. This has become extraordinarily clear over the course of, not just of the past couple of election cycles, but the past few months, now that Zohran Mamdani has been vetted by the entire Democratic Party as the future of the party.
All of the so-called moderates in the Democratic Party refuse to dissociate in any way from Mamdani, who is, in fact, a terror sympathizer; who is, in fact, a Marxist radical; who is, in fact, a complete, useless ne&#8217;er do well of a human being who has somehow managed to manipulate himself into a position to become the mayor of the financial center of planet Earth in New York City.
Mamdani is a Marxist with jihadist leanings. That&#8217;s the reality. And in the modern Democratic Party, that is a feature, not a bug.
There are a lot of people in the media who&#8217;ve been struggling to figure out how Mamdani was able to win a primary despite having these radical positions. I&#8217;ve been saying since he won the Democratic Party primary that his winning is not a bug; it is a feature quite popular among Democratic primary voters, because the Democratic electorate has basically split between moderates who are increasingly bleeding over into the Republican Party or into the independents, and the hardcore Democrats, who are increasingly moving ever further to the left.
We are now two generations removed from the specter of communism via the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell 35 years ago, and that means that there are a lot of people who don&#8217;t remember the Soviet Union or the risks of communism. When they think of socialism, they actually are thinking of mixed states, capitalist states that have a significant welfare portion in places in Europe.
But the solutions that they are proposing are full-scale nationalization projects, Marxist projects directly from the Soviet, Cuban, Venezuelan handbook. And they don&#8217;t even know they&#8217;re doing that — or they don&#8217;t care.
What that means is that the candidate who signals the furthest to the Left in many of these areas in the primaries is actually quite likely to win. That’s how someone with Mamdani’s positions on the Middle East and terrorism and jihadism — only 24 years removed from 9/11 — can be elected mayor of New York.
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 New York City is likely to elect as mayor somebody who has sympathies for Al-Qaeda. I don&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s sympathetic to the actual terror attacks of 9/11, although he&#8217;s quite sympathetic to the terror group Hamas. I mean he believes that the Osama bin Laden-articulated grievances of 2001 against the West are mostly correct.
There are people who&#8217;ve been trained for generations in this country to believe that Western civilization is responsible for everything bad that happens on planet Earth, that third-world countries are third-world because of exploitation by the first world. They believe that terror centers are terror centers, not because of a deeply steeped radical Islamic ideology, but instead because somehow the West has been cruel to people.
That’s the kind of garbage Mamdani is preaching, and it is finding a ready audience among Democratic primary voters.
Very few Democrats have had the stones to simply say, “No, this is a bridge too far. The answer here is no.”
What&#8217;s amazing about that is that the risk factor in making such a statement is relatively low. Imagine that you are a mainstream Democrat, an elected official from Kansas, and somebody asks you about Mamdani. Does it cost you anything to say, “No, that guy&#8217;s too extreme. I would not vote for him. I&#8217;d vote for Andrew Cuomo.” Would that cost you anything?
Let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;re a purple state Democrat. Or let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;re a blue state Democrat. You&#8217;re just not a New York City, far-Left Greenwich Village Democrat. Does it cost you anything to say, “No, that dude is too much for me. I understand the primary voters chose him, but the reality is that is not representative of America.”
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Instead, the Democratic Party has decided they must draft off of the Mamdani energy. And that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re seeing nationally a reflection of Mamdani politics via the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
Mamdani is a child of the Bernie Sanders revolution because Bernie obviously is not just a socialist when it comes to domestic policy. He is also a Howard Zinn, anti-American extremist when it comes to American foreign policy. Mamdani is just following in the footsteps of Bernie Sanders. But he&#8217;s adding a more diverse backstory.
People think Mamdani’s radicalism about the Middle East is somehow an inhibitor to his political success.
Wrong.
In New York City, with its Democratic primary base, his radicalism is an aphrodisiac. The Democratic Party base wants this signaling. They want the extremism. They want the Howard Zinn-ification of American foreign policy.
Israel pulls out of Gaza, and Hamas immediately starts consolidating control by literally pulling people out of their houses, lining them up, putting them on their knees, and shooting them in the head. There are videos of this happening.
And Mamdani has nothing to say about this. Not only does he have nothing to say about this, he&#8217;s asked whether Hamas should disarm now and he won&#8217;t even answer a question as to whether Hamas ought to be disarmed.
New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was asked by a New York Times reporter, “I&#8217;m a reporter for the Times. I&#8217;m writing about Elise Stefanik’s comments in response to Mamdani’s Fox News interview, Mamdani’s campaign has said that her comments calling him a jihadist were Islamophobic. Please let me know if you want to respond.” 
Stefanik <a href="https://x.com/EliseStefanik/status/1978943584867860643">responded</a> publicly on X:
<blockquote>I call Zohran Mamdani a jihadist because he is. Zohran Mamdani is a raging antisemite. Mamdani is the definition of a jihadist as he supports Hamas terrorists which he did as recently as yesterday when he refused to call for Hamas terrorists to put down their arms &#8211; the same Hamas terrorist group that slaughtered civilians including New Yorkers on October 7, 2023. 
He is Kathy Hochul’s endorsed jihadist Communist who she has empowered to destroy New York City. It’s why the New York State Democrat Party Chair refuses to support him. It’s why multiple Democrat Members of Congress refuse to support him. It’s why Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have still not endorsed him. Because Zohran is a jihadist who will destroy New York.</blockquote>
Why aren&#8217;t Democrats dissociating from him?
None of them will say it because they are trying to draft off the jet fuel that is radicalism and nut-jobbery inside the Democratic Party.
Bill Ackman <a href="https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1979000490563432948">stated</a> on X of Mamdani:
<blockquote>It is now abundantly clear he is completely full of it. The whole thing is an act. Just look at the identical practiced smile with which he ends each answer. After watching him recreate his fake smile, your skin will start to crawl. Mamdani exudes inauthenticity and smugness. He denies or disavows any of his previous public statements that he knows will now cost him votes. The only takeaway is that he is an extremely articulate inauthentic actor. You can’t trust one word out of his mouth. And that’s before you get to his policies which make no economic sense.</blockquote>
This is the nature of the modern Democratic Party.
And they are moving in this direction at light speed.

New York City Mayoral Debate

Radicalism Isn’t Fringe Anymore In The Democratic Party

Andrew Cuomo

Elise Stefanik

Marxism

With the baby boomers dying off, many people ask me, &#8220;What is Gen Z like, and what does it mean for the future?&#8221; But with the baby boomers dying off, I don’t have time to answer — and anyway, what’s it to me?
However, there is a new poll out on how these Gen Z whippersnappers see things, and the results are very encouraging in the sense they’ll allow me to die happy in the knowledge that the rest of you are screwed.
The poll of around 3,000 respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 was specially designed to elicit information from young people by posing its questions in the form of emojis and inarticulate whining noises and then pretending to take the answers seriously. The results had a margin of error of 79%, because the young people had no clue what the hell they were talking about and then changed their minds when they found out what life was really like.
The young people were asked such questions as: What do you value most? Is America headed in the right direction? What the hell do you know, you nose-ringed freak? And why don’t you get a job and find your own place to live, you’re 20-years old already, for crying out loud? The respondents were then divided by gender using a buzz saw and a surgical needle threaded with fishing line. Then the genders were separated politically by riot police with tear gas and rubber bullets. Finally, the survivors sat around smoking weed until the women fell asleep and the men, of course, had sex with them.
The results of the poll show that among young men, the number one thing they valued most was having children. The number four thing they valued most was getting married. Numbers two and three were avoiding paying child support and using pig’s blood during a paternity test before changing their names and moving out of state.
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Among women, the number one thing they valued most was their jobs, the number two thing they valued was emotional stability and the number three thing they valued were anti-depressants. These women also valued making TikTok videos expressing completely nonsensical opinions in a smug voice while smiling like Anthony Perkins in the last frame of “Psycho,” and secretly wishing some guy would marry them and tell them what to do because they’re obviously out of their minds.
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The poll also revealed ingrained differences between young men and women when it came to political issues. For instance, 56% of young men feel that Donald Trump is doing an excellent job as president, while 82% of young women also have political opinions but nobody bothered to write them down because, let’s face it, who cares?
The biggest political divide between the genders was on immigration. Young women felt that it was a crying shame to deport an upstanding pillar of the community just because he had come here illegally, and had drunkenly crashed his car into an elementary school, then escaped before the police discovered the child tied up in his trunk. Young men didn’t answer the question because they were too busy watching cool videos of ICE agents slamming fat Mexicans into the sides of their jalopies while screaming the f-word.
One surprising result in the poll is that young people increasingly favor socialism. They listed their primary reasons as — one — they’d have a lot of time to play “Candy Crush” while they were standing in line to get a loaf of bread. Two, they’ve seen the mini-series “Chernobyl” and it looked really cool when people’s flesh started to melt like in a science fiction movie only real. And three, under socialism, there would be no corporations and everything would be free, so you could just pick up a new iPhone any time you wanted … wherever it is that iPhones come from.
All in all, the results of the poll demonstrated that Generation Z is called Generation Z for a good reason: namely, nothing comes after Z.
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New Poll: Gen Z Likes Socialism, Willing To Wait In Line For Loaf Of Bread

Andrew Klavan

Humor

Poll

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New York mayoral candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/zohran-mamdani">Zohran Mamdani</a> is handsome, charismatic, and a master influencer on social media. He is currently leading the race for the New York mayorship by 22 points. And now he finds himself at the forefront of a significant leftward lurch in the Democratic Party. 

A recent <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/694835/image-capitalism-slips.aspx">Gallup poll</a> shows that 66% of Democratic voters view socialism positively compared to 42% for capitalism, a stunning 24 point differential. Mr. Mamdani belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the socialist organization opposing Democratic moderates.
He doesn’t merely belong to it. By his own words he is such a vehement proponent of this collective that he advocates setting up safeguards to resist any watering down of the DSA vision once their candidates reach office. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA13mlaiw1w">Mr. Mamdani’s speech at the DSA Convention on August 4, 2023</a>, he laid out his plan to have committees of socialists in office work together in order resist “corruption” from moderating influences of fellow &#8220;electeds&#8221; (3:15) and that “wherever we want to contest power we must not send that person into that chamber alone, we must make sure they remember they are a member of this organization” (13:40). He closes by declaiming, “solidarity forever and socialism forever” (14:08).
In an <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/zohran-mamdani-interview/">interview</a> with The Nation on February 18, 2025, he reiterates these commitments unequivocally, stating: “My political home is NYC DSA.”
In a statement issued on June 27, 2025, the DSA <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/statements/dsa-npc-statement-on-zohran-mamdanis-primary-win/">reaffirms their side of this ideological pact</a>, stating that Mr. Mamdani “never ran as an individual, but as a representative of a working class socialist movement.”
By his and his party’s own definition, Mr. Mamdani is not a Trojan horse for DSA policies. He is the incarnation of them.
Many New Yorkers believe that President Trump should be held accountable for Project 2025. Shouldn’t the same be true for Mr. Mamdani as it pertains to the platform of the very socialist organization he calls home?
Given our digital churn of accusation and recrimination, our atomized culture, and our different information silos, it is difficult at times to understand what we are voting for and what we are voting against. The nation — and New Yorkers — deserve a clear exploration of the policies and beliefs of their leading candidate.
Below are ten bullet points, drawn directly from the DSA’s 2021 National Convention platform and fact-checked by two different AI large-language models:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">End Capitalism: DSA seeks to dismantle capitalism, replacing it with worker-controlled production and resource distribution.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Nationalize Key Industries: Public ownership of energy, railroads, and potentially banking to ensure democratic control.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Abolish Prisons: Eliminate prisons, replacing them with restorative justice systems.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Defund and Abolish Police: Redirect police budgets to social services and ultimately dismantle police forces.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Abolish White Supremacy: Dismantle systemic racism and white supremacist structures through policies like affirmative action, wealth redistribution, and cultural reeducation.</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Universal Basic Income (UBI): Provide guaranteed income to all, funded by wealth taxes, to reduce inequality.</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Open Borders: Decriminalize immigration and abolish ICE, allowing unrestricted movement across borders.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Reparations for Black and Indigenous Communities: Pay reparations to address slavery and colonization, estimated at trillions.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Cancel All Student Debt: Forgive all student debt (over $1.6 trillion) and provide free public education at all levels.</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">International Solidarity, Anti-Imperialism, and Anti-Militarism: Promote global working-class solidarity by opposing U.S. imperialism, ending military interventions, slashing defense budgets, and redirecting funds to international aid.</li>
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Conclusion: These policies are considered extreme for their radical restructuring of economic, social, or foreign policy systems, high costs, or potential for societal disruption, setting them far outside mainstream U.S. political consensus.
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One section of the 2021 platform titled “Abolition of the Carceral State” decries policing and prison as “white supremacist institutions” and “active instruments of class war.” 
Additionally, it makes promises to:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“free all people from involuntary confinement”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state” in order to “achieve collective liberation”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“end investment in police training or facility renovations”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“repeal the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“decertify police unions and associations”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“end all misdemeanor offenses…and cut funding to prosecutor’s offices”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“end pre-trial detention, civil commitment, and imprisonment for parole violations”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“repeal truancy laws, ending all suspensions and expulsions”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies”</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“cease all funding for contracting, procurement, and in-house development of technologies including CCTV, biometric capture and databases, predictive policing platforms, AI, and risk profiling algorithms”</li>
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It is troubling indeed to imagine a New York that has released all inmates from jails and prisons, disarmed the police, defunded police departments to zero, decriminalized drug dealers, and ceased all funding for technologies designed to keep the city safe — just to name a few initiatives from a slender pie slice of the DSA platform. 
Also troubling to imagine is the impact this will have on families and children, workers and small businesses, first responders and emergency services, and tourism and taxes.   
In 2024, the DSA updated its platform, removing the vast majority of specifics and boiling down each of their major policies to a single graphic and two sentence fragments. 
For example, they reduced their policy statement on police and incarceration, from 981 words…
…to 16.
<div id="attachment_976111" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-976111" class="size-large wp-image-976111" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-576x576.jpg" alt="Credit: Democratic Socialists of America" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-02-59-PM-1598-2048x2048.jpg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />Credit: Democratic Socialists of America</div>
The above policy “statement” has removed 98.37%  of what used to be there.
And every other section of the DSA platform has undergone similar shrinkage.
There are certainly various conclusions to be drawn from this, but it seems not unreasonable to conclude that the abbreviated blurbs are designed to euphemize, obfuscate, and conceal. 
On August 28, a mere three weeks ago, Mr. Mamdani <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/nyregion/mamdani-dsa-socialist-mayor.html">scrambled to distance himself</a> from a few of the DSA’s most radical positions, but despite countless interviews and appearances he has refused to adequately clarify, qualify, or explain the vast majority of positions of the movement that he claims defines him. Nor has he denounced his repeated ironclad vows to resist moderation and fight to enact DSA policies acting an instrument of the collective.
Don’t New Yorkers deserve to know what precisely they are voting for?
Don’t Democrats in general deserve to assess whether the DSA platform represents a winning message that aligns with American values and voters? Because these positions clearly do neither. And if Mr. Mamdani wins, the Democrats are going to have to answer for his positions and performance for election cycles to come.
Many in the party claim that no matter what Democrats do, President Trump and Republicans label them radical extremists in order to win elections. What will make this significantly easier?
The fact that in this case it’s true.
A victory for Mr. Mamdani will embody and solidify the most extreme positions within the Democratic party — positions that are clearly outside the norms of American politics.
Is it possible, many wonder, to even define American norms anymore?
It is.
In September of 2024, with a small post-partisan team, I conducted nationwide polling with a sample of 1,285 that found that the vast majority of Americans agree on virtually every major issue. 
The results are something to behold.
<div id="attachment_976113" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-976113" class="size-large wp-image-976113" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-1024x576.jpg" alt="Credit: Gregg Hurwitz" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-464-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Credit: Gregg Hurwitz</div>
<div id="attachment_976115" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-976115" class="size-large wp-image-976115" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-1024x576.jpg" alt="Credit: Gregg Hurwitz" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/MixCollage-23-Sep-2025-03-07-PM-4745-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Credit: Gregg Hurwitz</div>
For this moment, one of these in particular is worth pausing for: I believe in gratitude, not grievance: 86% agree.
What I find most alarming in Mr. Mamdani’s camp is that I don’t see a crumb of gratitude over there. Not for America. Not for the city that welcomed him and his family and gave them opportunities to work and thrive. Not for the private and selective schools like Bank Street School for Children and Bronx Science that educated him. Not for the law enforcement community who kept him safe. Not for the systems that guarantee the freedoms he rightly enjoys.
No gratitude.
Just grievance.
In our own lives and relationships we know intuitively, as is true at a larger scale, that nothing good grows from the seed of grievance.
Imagine another approach. Imagine how powerful America would be if we unified gratefully around our vast agreement and drew from the brilliance, resources, and brainpower of our entire nation. Imagine how much stronger we would be to navigate the complex changes ahead. Imagine how we could compete and lead on the world stage.
Every moment in our current reckoning can represent a turning point. We can keep moving to greater extremes as Mr. Mamdani is planning to do. Or our leaders can reject radicalism, step closer to one another and the 80-100% of us who agree on virtually everything, and own the future.
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Disclaimer: Mr. Hurwitz is volunteering with various organizations in an effort to defeat Mr. Mamdani.
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Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 26 thrillers including the Orphan X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, and is an award-winning documentary producer. Gregg also wrote comics for AWA (including the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), DC, and Marvel, and poetry. Currently, Gregg is working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he’s penned dozens of Op/Eds and pieces for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark, Salon, and others, and pieces of creative content which have won numerous industry awards and achieved several hundred million views on digital TV platforms. He also helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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