A lot of people on the Right, in the center, and even on the Left are asking themselves this question: Is peak woke over? 
After all, we suffered through a decade of wokeness, the proposition that any disparity between groups was evidence of discrimination. The wokeness was manifested as DEI, the idea that the government had to constantly rig the system in the reverse direction.
So where does the Left go next? They&#8217;re going back to something old: what could theoretically be titled “economic wokeness.”
Economic wokeness mirrors exactly the same argument as racial wokeness or trans wokeness, except it applies to economic categories.
When I say this is an old argument, it is because it&#8217;s basically the argument Karl Marx made. And it seems the Democrats are moving more and more in that direction.
According to a memo penned by Kamala Harris campaign veterans, what people really want to hear from their favorite politicians is that rich people suck and they should be destroyed.
The reason I&#8217;m calling this economic wokeness is because in order to see the parallel to racial wokeness, all you have to do is replace one word.
The idea for racial wokeness is that disparities are, in and of themselves, signs of discrimination. The idea is that racial discrimination is the norm, not an aberration. It&#8217;s not people who are bad apples. It&#8217;s part of the entire system. And the system is designed purposefully by white people to discriminate against people of color. That is the basis of wokeness.
To get to economic wokeness, all you have to do is replace the word “racial” with “economic.” You simply say economic disparities are in and of themselves signs of economic discrimination. Economic discrimination is ordinary, not an aberration. It&#8217;s not just that there&#8217;s one price gouger out there, it&#8217;s the whole system that is designed for price gouging.
Who is it designed by, according to this theory? “Rich people“ instead of the “white people” of racial wokeness. Rich people who discriminate against the poor.
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The beauty of economic wokeness is that, unlike racial wokeness — which can be debunked by looking at group studies, pointing to a group that outperforms white people, whether they are Nigerians in America or Asians — there will always be some people who are poorer than other people.
But here’s the salient point: People move in and out of these categories. This is why it is a mistake to talk about the “poor” and the “rich.”
There are many people who are poor now who will one day become rich. There are many people who are rich who will one day become middle-class or poor. 
There is tremendous economic mobility in the United States, according to the available studies. If you are born into the bottom quintile of income earners in the United States, there&#8217;s a better than 60% chance that you will not end up there, that you will end up in a higher bracket in terms of income by the time you are an adult. 
With that said, this sort of economic populism is rooted in grievance, and it&#8217;s a real problem because it does have a popular appeal. It is one thing to claim that America is racist or that America is transphobic. Most people look at that and say, “I don&#8217;t know that many racists.” I really don&#8217;t know that many people who are sitting around all day long thinking about whether a man is a woman; that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s basic logic to know the difference. 
But when it comes to economic status, people have an amazing way of dissociating the rich people they personally know from “rich people” in general. Most people in America know somebody who&#8217;s wealthy. I would bet that the vast majority of people who know people who are wealthy also know good people who are wealthy and bad people who are wealthy. I would also bet they know a lot of poor people, some of whom are good and some of whom are bad, because people come in all shapes and sizes and all sorts of moral qualities.
When it comes to how people think of their own economic performance, the easiest pitch you can make to somebody if they are having a tough time economically is to say it can be fixed by ripping down that billionaire over there.
The only thing that is preventing the advent of people like Bernie Sanders is continued economic growth. If we get continued economic growth, then economic wokeness doesn&#8217;t apply. If people feel pretty good about their direction in the economy, then economic wokeness won&#8217;t help because people won&#8217;t feel discriminated against.
If, however, as we are seeing in the polling data, people do feel that they are stuck, that they don&#8217;t have economic mobility and they have an entire legacy media infrastructure pushing this lie as well as people on both the Right and the Left, that you can&#8217;t get ahead in America, no matter what you do; if you have politicians telling you that so they can garner more power, people believe it.
And if they believe it, they start tearing down the very systems that generated prosperity, such as free markets, private property, and capitalism in the first place. 
I understand the art of gaining power in politics requires getting elected, and getting elected often leads to dissimulating, dissembling, and saying things that are not true. Many politicians are willing to say untrue things in order to garner that power.
That doesn&#8217;t make it moral or good.
Any sort of populist notion that capitalism is “stacked against you” falls flat in a country that is the richest country in literally all of human history, and in which people who are at the bottom of the economic ladder (after income and wealth transfers, because we have massive welfare programs in this country) are earning about $45,000 to $50,000 a year — which is about the same as the median household income in Germany or France.
When you point that out, people get mad. But it happens to be the case.
And that&#8217;s why economic success is absolutely necessary. It&#8217;s also why we need to make a robust defense of things like private property and free markets. Why is private property good? Private property is good because you ought to retain the fruits of your labor, because you are an individual human being with creative capacity, and it is immoral for people to steal the things you create.
Private property is an outgrowth of basic individual autonomy. Free markets are an outgrowth of private property, because if I own the fruits of my labor, I can then alienate them, meaning I can trade them, or I can sell them, and we can trade. And both of our lives get better because I traded something I want for something that you want.
That is the predicate of a free market economy. And that right does not begin with the government. That right begins with God, because God made us in a particular way, with creative capacity.
Man has the capacity to create. Man has the capacity to cultivate the garden, to labor. And so keeping the fruits of our labor is something that human beings want.
This is why communism always fails. That’s because if you tell people they don&#8217;t get to keep what they earned, that they basically should be treated as disposable labor widgets, and all of the fruits of their labor will be taken away and redistributed, people won&#8217;t work. They&#8217;ll just stop. It&#8217;s why communism always ends with coercion.
The free market is not rooted in some sort of peculiar institution created by rich people. It is rooted in basic human notions of autonomy and individual worth.
That&#8217;s why it was disturbing to hear Virginia Democrat senator Tim Kaine, who was the vice presidential nominee with Hillary Clinton back in 2016. He said in the Senate the other day that rights come from the government, declaring:
<blockquote>You state and this is a quote from Secretary Rubio, our rights come from God, our creator, not from our laws, not from our government. I find that very, very troubling. I&#8217;m a devout person. I was a missionary in Honduras. We&#8217;ve got other devout folks in this room Christian, Jewish, Muslim-American. 
The notion that rights don&#8217;t come from laws and don&#8217;t come from the government, but come from the creator, that&#8217;s what the Iranian government believes. It&#8217;s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis Bahais, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.</blockquote>
That was a gigantic softball over the middle of the plate for Texas GOP senator Ted Cruz, who knows the words of the Declaration of Independence. He responded:
<blockquote>That radical and dangerous notion, in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. And if you do not believe me, and you made reference to this, Mr. Barnes, then you can believe perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator,” not by government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God “with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”</blockquote>
This is a fundamental reality.
This is why capitalism and free markets are good things: morally good. You own the product of your hands. You have a right to your own labor.
It&#8217;s time for lions, for people who actually believe in the success of the United States, to robustly defend the free market. This is not something to apologize for.
You are not immoral if you&#8217;re a billionaire any more than you&#8217;re immoral if you are impoverished.

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It Will Never Die: Democrats Unleash A New Brand Of Woke

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The Left has decided that they are done with normal male masculinity. 

Democrats are learning that soy is not a nutritional base for all things.
They’re learning this from Zohran Mamdani, who is likely the next mayor of New York City.
Democrats have been claiming that he&#8217;s the hot new thing in the Democratic Party, that he will lead the way to a bright new socialist future for America, starting with the most powerful financial capital on planet Earth.
But since we’re speaking about power, about a supposed socialist “strongman” in Zohran Mamdani, we should note that he’s going to be hard-pressed to be a strongman.
On Saturday, Mamdani showed up at the annual Men&#8217;s Day Open Streets event in Brooklyn, where a bunch of dudes were weight-lifting. Mamdani is 33, in the prime of life, and <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1959432709224435823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1959432709224435823%7Ctwgr%5E7601b39cb46b542c1c7c113cc55412bc04dbd7ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Fus-news%2Fzohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn%2F">tried to bench a bar</a> with two reputed 45-pound weights, a total of 135 pounds.
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Lolll Mamdani tried showing off at a “men’s day” event by doing the bench press and couldn’t do a single rep without help <a href="https://t.co/JNG2SLBfI9">pic.twitter.com/JNG2SLBfI9</a>
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If you are going to do something like this and you&#8217;re a public figure, you’d better know your limitations.
There must have been some time in his life when Mamdani was in a gym.
Maybe not.
If you don&#8217;t know how much you can bench-press, a public event in front of a giant crowd of people in the middle of a mayoral race is not a great time to try it out.
Let’s be clear: a decent amount of weight for a man to bench in the prime of his life is his own body weight. Mamdani looks like he weighs more than 135 pounds.
In any case, 135 pounds is not a lot of weight to bench-press.
For the record, I&#8217;m not a bench-press enthusiast; I max out at around 200 pounds. But I can lift 135 pounds 15 times, because that&#8217;s not a lot of weight.
So Mamdani had a heavily-muscled guy helping him try to lift the bar. Twice. They barely made it.
When he kicked a stranger’s soccer ball at the event, Mamdani had to take off his designer boots.
For the vast majority of normal men, this would be very, very embarrassing.
But the Left has decided that they are done with normal male masculinity. 
Done With It.
They have decided that the future of the Democratic Party is going to be an extraordinarily feminized party, not just because an outsized share of Democrats are now single women, but also because the kinds of men the Democratic Party wants to attract are not the kinds of men who lift heavy weights.
This is why you&#8217;ve seen, over the course of the last several years, a spate of articles talking about how lifting and going to the gym has become Republican-coded. There&#8217;s no reason it should be Republican-coded, except if you mean that testosterone is Republican-coded, and the idea that you should stay healthy and that you should lift is Republican-coded.
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This leads to this question: Why would someone want this kind of weak and feminized America?
The media clearly do. There&#8217;s a piece from Axios titled, “<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/24/trump-american-identity-citizenship-immigration">Trump’s Identity Project</a>.” They write:
<blockquote>The MAGA movement&#8217;s obsession with American identity and Western civilization is shaping federal policy far more than in Trump&#8217;s first term — fueling a reckoning over who belongs and what history should be remembered. </blockquote>
I have a question: Why shouldn&#8217;t we all be a little obsessed with American identity in Western civilization? I thought that&#8217;s what America is about: what it means to be an American. A huge part of that is being the apotheosis of Western civilization. 
What are we supposed to represent? Non-Western civilizations, Third-World civilizations?
Axios continues, “In MAGA&#8217;s telling, America is the heir to ancient European civilizations, built on a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family.”
Notice how they slide in “white identity.” The idea of a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity is a bizarre amalgam of two exclusive beliefs. Judeo-Christian identity is absolutely, by definition, not white identity.  Look at the history of the Catholic Church. Look at the history of Protestantism. Look at the billions of Christians all over planet Earth. And you tell me, are they all white? I don&#8217;t think so. Judaism is a Middle Eastern religion. It began in Israel, and plenty of Jews have dark skin.
Monotheistic religion is, by its very nature, non-racially based.
American identity, Axios and the media are telling me, has nothing to do with Biblical values, meritocracy, traditional gender roles, and the nuclear family.
That would come as a shock to every single one of the American founders.
Meritocracy, for the Left and the media, is apparently all about racism. But you cannot simultaneously hold to a belief in a meritocracy and to a belief in white identitarianism. Those two things are mutually exclusive. If you are for a meritocracy, that means that the person who is most meritorious, regardless of color, is the person who should get the job, who should advance in society.
Traditional gender roles are a part of Judeo-Christian foundations, of Biblical belief, and a foundational part of science, because it happens to be the case that men and women are different.
This is why dudes are making fun of Zohran Mamdani for not being able to lift as much as a pregnant lady could. There is something bizarrely effeminate about Mamdani’s performance.
It&#8217;s strange and it&#8217;s weird — and Democrats love it.
Perhaps they&#8217;re into the sort of androgynous Mamdani candidacy.
All of this does speak to the Democratic Party and the move to the Left that is being fostered by this effete set of liberals at places like Axios or in the New York City primary.
The results of this are very clear. If you get rid of things like biblical values, traditional masculinity, and the nuclear family, what do you end up with?
It’s not something most Americans want.

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Mamdani Can’t Lift. Unsurprising.

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The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) has revoked its endorsement of hard-left state Senator Omar Fateh, a Democratic socialist, for mayor of Minneapolis after finding the endorsing convention had made numerous mistakes.
Fateh, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Somalia, is challenging incumbent leftist Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey in November.
“The Minnesota state senator, 35, is running on an uber-progressive <a href="https://www.fatehformayor.com/vision">platform</a> that includes cracking down on the police, getting ‘economic justice’ for LGBT and minorities, and keeping Minneapolis a sanctuary for not just illegal migrants but also for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, all while spending lots of taxpayer dollars,” The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-omar-fateh-the-radical-somali-american-democratic-socialist-running-for-minneapolis-mayor">noted</a>.
Fateh has also consistently referred to Somalia as home, saying to the local Somali community, “I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support. There’s always been a link between our community here as well as back home and I’m running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we succeed everywhere.”
At the convention, after the second round of voting had been concluded, Fateh <a href="https://x.com/OmarFatehMN/status/1946761856275624188">claimed</a> he was the winner. But Frey’s campaign asked the state DFL to nullify the endorsement, saying the convention’s electronic voting system had failed, adding that delegates and alternates had been “inexplicably removed as delegates or downgraded before or at the DFL Convention.”
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On Thursday, the state DFL <a href="https://dfl.org/cbrc_decision/">vacated</a> the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Fateh, writing, “After a thoughtful and transparent review of the challenges, the Constitution, Bylaws &amp; Rules Committee found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgement that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention. As a result, the Constitution, Bylaws &amp; Rules Committee has vacated the mayoral endorsement.”
The DFL found that there was “highly inaccurate tabulation of the first vote in the mayoral endorsement,” pointing out that mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis was improperly dropped from the second round of voting because votes had been undertabulated. Thus, the results from the second round were considered invalid.
“The DFL also concluded that there were multiple delegate-related issues such as the failure to upgrade all alternate delegates, the loss of a credentials book, and the failure to secure the master credentials list which ‘was accessed by non-members of the credentials committee, including the campaigns,” Alpha News <a href="https://alphanews.org/state-dfl-strips-omar-fateh-of-party-endorsement-in-minneapolis-mayoral-race/">reported</a>.
A spokesperson for Frey’s campaign <a href="https://x.com/AntGockowski/status/1958638078152659011">said</a> the Fateh endorsement was “brazen cheating.”
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Mayor Jacob Frey spokesperson says endorsement of Fateh was &quot;brazen cheating.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/eUMU92ZyM0">https://t.co/eUMU92ZyM0</a> <a href="https://t.co/aHF8U1GYVb">pic.twitter.com/aHF8U1GYVb</a>
&mdash; Anthony Gockowski (@AntGockowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntGockowski/status/1958638078152659011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The election, which is conducted via ranked-choice voting, will take place on Nov. 4th. Early voting <a href="https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/calendar/">begins</a> Sept. 19th and runs through Nov. 3rd,” Alpha News added.
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Minnesota Dems Disown Socialist Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Following Endorsement Controversy

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Omar Fateh

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According to polls, the increased amount of support for New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is coming from people under the age of 35. 
Mamdani has never held a real job in his entire life. If you were looking for the definition of a career useless person, this would be the guy. 
You might say to yourself: How does a person with effectively no résumé, who worked for his mommy and was a rapper, wind up as the Democratic nominee in New York City?
But to misunderstand that is to misunderstand everything about Gen Z.
I&#8217;m not a politician, so I don&#8217;t have to pretend that the concerns of Gen Z are legitimate. I understand that if you&#8217;re a politician, then you have to placate people when they emotionally explain to you why their life is so difficult. Sometimes people do have difficult lives with real challenges in the world.
But when I hear from Gen Z that the American dream is dead to them, all I can think of is this: You have got to be kidding me.
I&#8217;ve read many pieces over the last couple of years now that Gen Z has it tougher than any generation in modern history. I thought to myself, “I&#8217;m going to vomit.”
How many serious wars have they had to live through? Zero. Zero serious terrorist attacks. They have lived in the most prosperous time in human history and the healthiest time in human history.
But because their rent is too high in New York City, while they concomitantly hold some sort of nonprofit jobs, they whine.
I don&#8217;t mean everyone in Gen Z complains without reason — there are many people who are suffering, who have a disease, who have health problems, who have been dealt a rough hand by life.
Those are not the people I&#8217;m talking about.
The generational complaint that somehow Gen Z has it worse than the millennials or Gen X or the boomers, or the Greatest Generation, ignores literally all of American history, all of it.
But if you&#8217;re a politician, you can make bank by pretending that these people have legitimate concerns and they&#8217;re not just being ungrateful and bratty. For these folks, Mamdani is an avatar.
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He has no resume. He grew up absolutely loaded with wealth, and currently is taking advantage of a rent-controlled apartment in New York City. He is currently living in a rent-stabilized apartment where the rent is $2,500 a month. The market rate would be $8,000 per month. He earns $147,000 a year and is campaigning on housing affordability in New York City.
You might think to yourself, “That&#8217;s crazy. How are all of these socialists in New York City supporting somebody who&#8217;s so clearly a hypocrite?”
But that misses the point: So many folks in America look to their politicians as aspirational figures. I think a lot of people who love President Trump view him as an aspirational figure, somebody who&#8217;s very wealthy and very powerful, somebody who&#8217;s made more of himself than otherwise he might have had at the beginning. Yes, he grew up rich, but he made himself into a brand name available all across the world for literally decades, and then became President of the United States twice.
It&#8217;s an aspirational thing.
But what if the Gen Z aspiration is to be a career loser who lives off of their parents’ income until they get some sort of cush government job living in a rent-stabilized apartment? What if that is the actual aspiration? What if people look up to Zohran Mamdani not in spite of the fact that he is a loser, but because he is a loser?
A lot of New Yorkers now have jobs and backgrounds very similar to Mamdani’s.
And this is the central point. 
Armin Rosen noted in <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/zohran-mamdanis-fantasy-island">Tablet Magazine</a>:
<blockquote>New York is thought of as the sink-or-swim epicenter of American capitalism, but that’s not true anymore. The city is home to more than 600,000 jobs in <a href="https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/critical-role-of-nonprofits-in-new-york.pdf">the nonprofit sector </a>and a roughly equal number of <a href="https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/08/new-york-city.pdf">jobs in government</a>. Nonprofits now employ nearly 17 percent of the city’s total private-sector workforce, compared to 10 percent nationally. Wage growth in the nonprofit sector healthily outpaced the rest of the private sector statewide in New York between 2017 and 2022, 29.3 to 25.3 percent.</blockquote>
Wage growth in New York City is healthy because it&#8217;s all done off of government grants.
All of those nonprofits are not independently raising their money. They&#8217;re getting money from the government. Thus, they&#8217;re effectively second-order government employees.
When you look at the stats in New York, you understand just why Mamdani is so successful. You have well over 50% of the population that is working for some sort of government-orchestrated, government-organized, or government-funded segment of the economy.
In other words, the people who are getting money from the government are not the people who are paying for the government. They&#8217;re all Zohran Mamdani types. They&#8217;re living off the largesse of government.
Meanwhile, all of the rent across New York City has been rent-stabilized. 50% of all of the units across New York City have been rent-stabilized. One million units have been rent-stabilized, which means that there&#8217;s an artificially low supply of new construction in New York City. That means the prices go up. 
Mamdani is complaining about “affordability.” It should be pointed out that it&#8217;s all left-wing policies that made things unaffordable. Additionally, of the people who are in New York City trying to afford those rent-controlled, rent-stabilized apartments, a huge number of them are on the government dole, so they are earning from both ends. The government is stabilizing their rent, and at the same time, the government is likely subsidizing their salary.
This is why I&#8217;m irritated when I hear from Gen Z about how tough things are in places like New York.
We should point out that there has been this mindset that has settled in among the American population that you are supposed to die where you were born. 
This is not a typically American idea. There are people on the Right who believe this. There are people on the Left who believe this. But it is not a traditional American idea. The traditional American idea, if you go back to the very beginning, was to cross an ocean with nothing to guarantee what was going to happen. People went into the wilderness, built a crappy house, and tried to start a business. And if that didn&#8217;t work, they would abandon that place and move further to the west, across mountain ranges, across rivers.
That was the original American idea.
Traditionally, when it was too expensive to live in a place, Americans went somewhere else.
But Americans are not doing that anymore. Instead, the reason so many New Yorkers seem warm on socialism is that many New Yorkers are already living a form of socialism. They are living the Zohran Mamdani lifestyle, where they are being supported by the government in a wide variety of ways, ranging from the regulatory to the actual subsidy.
So when they say things are so hard in New York City, and the answer is more redistribution from the people who are earning all of the income and paying all the taxes, the answer should be NO.
At some point, there&#8217;s going to have to be a call for some level of responsibility on the part of young people.
I grew up in a 1,100 square-foot house with one bathroom and shared a bedroom with my three sisters until I was eleven. I did have the ultimate privilege: a solid two-parent household.
And you know what? It was a fine life. I&#8217;m grateful for that life.
I&#8217;m telling this story because there is this dumb assumption that if you talk about mobility in America and the capacity of people to make smart decisions and to make the kinds of moves that will be necessary to achieve success, the immediate accusation is that it was only true for you, it&#8217;s not true for anybody else.
But it&#8217;s not only true for me. It is true for a huge majority of Americans. If you make smart decisions in America, and if you stop whining for five seconds, and if you go out and make better decisions for yourself, you can make a better life for yourself.
So many politicians make bank off this idea that America is dying, that the American dream is dying. Who does better because of that?
Politicians.
This is how they gain power, because every time they fail, they turn around and they say, “The system has failed. Give me more power.”
This is how you end up with Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders.
It&#8217;s not going to work out for anyone who believes this garbage. It&#8217;s not going to work out for the city of New York. It&#8217;s not going to work out for the country.
The only person who can make your life better in the end is you. You are the person who makes your life better, not Mamdani, not Bernie Sanders.
Most Americans are not dreaming of a government job, making a decent salary, and living in a rent-stabilized apartment.
That is not the American dream.
It never was.

NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Holds Press Conf. On Political Opponents

NYC’s Whiny Brats Pick A Mayor

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) defended self-described Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani during a CNBC appearance on Monday, claiming that raising taxes on the rich was the best way to make New York City &#8220;vibrant&#8221; and &#8220;workable&#8221; again.
Warren got into a heated exchange with &#8220;Squawk on the Street&#8221; host David Faber over Mamdani, New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayoral nominee, and his plan to make things in the city more &#8220;affordable&#8221; for the working class by heaping additional taxes on the wealthy and businesses.
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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is &#8216;I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC&#8217;
FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?
WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry? <a href="https://t.co/9FHkAKSv4X">pic.twitter.com/9FHkAKSv4X</a>
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&#8220;What Zohran is saying is, &#8216;I want people to be able to afford to live in New York City.&#8217; That’s what keeps it a vibrant city,&#8221; Warren insisted.
&#8220;Nobody disagrees with that, Senator. But raising taxes in order to do it? Why is that the answer?&#8221; Faber wanted to know.
Warren did not defend the plan to raise taxes, but instead asked, &#8220;Oh dear, are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I’m worried that they’re going to leave and spend their money elsewhere,&#8221; Faber pointed out.
Warren protested, claiming that people had threatened to leave over higher taxes, but made it clear that she didn&#8217;t believe they were likely to follow through on those threats.
&#8220;They’ve threatened to do that over and over—&#8221; she said
&#8220;And they have! And Goldman Sachs, when they create new jobs, they do it in Dallas. And Blackstone won’t build a new headquarters [in New York City]. I could go on and on,&#8221; Faber replied.
One day later — after Warren campaigned alongside Mamdani in New York and claimed he was exactly what the Democratic Party should look like — The New York Post responded with a brutal, front-page skewering of the pair.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s cover: Far left Sen. Warren gushes over NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — as other high-profile Dems stay silent,&#8221; the outlet&#8217;s post on X read. The headline, along with a front-page blurb, alluded to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-said-he-was-african-american-on-columbia-university-application">dishonest claims</a> made in the past by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-elizabeth-warren-uncomfortably-answers-amanda-prestigiacomo">both politicians</a>.
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Today&#8217;s cover: Far left Sen. Warren gushes over NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — as other high-profile Dems stay silent <a href="https://t.co/yT79CjKaE7">https://t.co/yT79CjKaE7</a> <a href="https://t.co/dlMUGwF2xN">pic.twitter.com/dlMUGwF2xN</a>
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&#8220;AFRICAN AMERICAN MEETS NATIVE AMERICAN,&#8221; the headline blared in all capital letters, followed by, &#8220;Mamdani and Warren in liars&#8217; summit.&#8221;
Another blurb on the front page added insult to injury: &#8220;Most national Democrats have refused to endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani, but he does have one ally — Elizabeth Warren, who appeared by his side yesterday. The two share the belief that bigger government is the answer to everything — and that lying about your ethnicity on your college application is perfectly fine.&#8221;

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Elizabeth Warren Goes To The Mat For Mamdani, But It’s The New York Post With The Takedown

Elizabeth Warren Goes To The Mat For Mamdani, But It's The New York Post With The TKO

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A Somali American democratic socialist is on the verge of becoming the next mayor of deep blue Minneapolis, and he has radical goals for the city, including making it the &#8220;last line of defense&#8221; against Donald Trump and a &#8220;safe haven&#8221; for transgender surgeries.
The Minnesota state senator, 35, is running on an uber-progressive <a href="https://www.fatehformayor.com/vision">platform</a> that includes cracking down on the police, getting &#8220;economic justice&#8221; for LGBT and minorities, and keeping Minneapolis a sanctuary for not just illegal migrants but also for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, all while spending lots of taxpayer dollars.
Fateh&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://www.fatehformayor.com/vision">platform</a> states that, &#8220;with Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, the progress towards equity and justice that our communities have worked so hard to create is in jeopardy. Mayor Frey has said that our approach to fighting Trump is extreme — he’s wrong.&#8221;
Fateh wants to &#8220;prioritize&#8221; and &#8220;fully fund&#8221; the <a href="https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/racial-equity/trans-equity-summit/">city&#8217;s</a> Trans Equity Summit and make Minneapolis a &#8220;safe haven&#8221; for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, saying that, &#8220;essential healthcare services like these are under attack from the Federal government.&#8221;
He is not a fan of the police.
Fateh campaigned for his state senate seat during the summer of 2020, the same time the deadly George Floyd riots erupted in Minneapolis, killing several people and destroying more than $350 million in property across the city.
His campaign headquarters for that race was <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota/">located</a> in an adult day care run by the Somali community on a street that saw some of the worst of the riots.
Five years later, George Floyd is still on Fateh&#8217;s mind.
He wants to &#8220;end the cycle of the Minneapolis Police Department’s violence and brutality that has held our city captive for so many years,&#8221; his platform <a href="https://www.fatehformayor.com/vision">states</a>.
That includes sending &#8220;non-police responders&#8221; to nearly half of 911 calls and increasing oversight of the police department, including investing in a &#8220;Civil Rights Department.&#8221;
Fateh also says he would ban Minneapolis police from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport illegal migrants.
He called a June federal drug raid in south Minneapolis “blatant fascism.”
&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s for an immigration raid or not, our residents deserve a mayor that will stand up to Donald Trump and say, &#8216;no, not in our community,'&#8221; Fateh <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/15/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race/85219261007/">said</a>.
Fateh also wants to freeze rents and increase affordable housing to the maximum allowed by federal law. He previously said he is &#8220;a renter myself, someone that’s been unemployed before.&#8221;
He wants to spend more money on housing for &#8220;LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people,&#8221; who he says are &#8220;some of the highest at risk for losing their housing, being over-criminalized by [Minneapolis police], and being harassed by their employer.&#8221;
Fateh also wants to raise the city&#8217;s minimum wage from just under $16 to $20 by 2028.
To pay for all this, he wants to start a city income tax &#8220;to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.&#8221;
During his state senate race, Fateh <a href="https://mn350action.org/omar-fateh-for-senate-district-62/">campaigned</a> on a <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota/">slew</a> of progressive priorities — drug decriminalization, universal health care, climate justice, free higher education, free child care, free public transit, a right to housing, and stopping what he called “exclusionary zoning,” similar to redlining.
He picked up endorsements at the time from the local chapters of Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Socialists of America as well as the Sunrise Movement, a climate change group that pushes the Green New Deal.
Also during that campaign, Fateh referred to Somalia as &#8220;home.&#8221;
“I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support,&#8221; Fateh said during remarks at an event in the local Somali community. &#8220;There’s always been a link between our community here as well as back home and I’m running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we succeed everywhere.&#8221;
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Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh calls Somalia &quot;our home&quot; even though he is born and raised here <a href="https://t.co/2ins5rUz3Q">pic.twitter.com/2ins5rUz3Q</a>
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After just one year in office, Fateh found himself in a political scandal over his close ties to the local Somali community.
In 2022, Fateh <a href="https://www.startribune.com/gop-state-senators-file-ethics-complaint-against-dfl-sen-omar-fateh/600176132">faced</a> a Senate ethics investigation into accusations that he proposed legislation to give half a million dollars in taxpayer dollars to a Somali news outlet that endorsed him.
He also <a href="https://assets.senate.mn/committees/2023-2024/3013_Rules_and_Administration_Subcommittee_on_Ethical_Conduct/Fateh%20Complaint%204-25.pdf">faced</a> an ethics complaint in 2023 after he said on the state senate floor that domestic terrorists often look like his white senate colleagues.
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Flashback to when Sen. Omar Fateh claimed the real terrorists looked like his white Republican colleagues on the Minnesota Senate floor.
An ethics complaint was later filed against him for violating the Senate’s code of conduct. <a href="https://t.co/Nm2JD8KqJg">pic.twitter.com/Nm2JD8KqJg</a>
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He has frequently advocated for the local Somali community during both his campaigns.
“From East African immigrants in the ’60s till now, not much seems to have changed,” he <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota/">told</a> The Nation during his state senate campaign. “If the corporations are going to be able to take advantage of you, they’re going to. They’re going to exploit you; they’re going to pay you less; they’re going to do whatever they can to maximize their profits — especially folks that are not very well versed on what their rights are.”
Before ousting a ten-year incumbent Democrat state senator, Fateh was a community organizer.
Now, he represents some of southern Minneapolis&#8217; poorest neighborhoods and is the first Muslim and first Somali American to serve in the Minnesota Senate.
Fateh was born and raised in Washington, D.C. by immigrant parents from Somalia and attended George Mason University before moving to Minneapolis.
He is the second self-described democratic socialist to rocket toward the top of a major city&#8217;s mayoral race after Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-socialist-mamdani-called-for-abolition-of-private-property?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Dem+Socialist+Mamdani+Called+For+‘Abolition+Of+Private+Property’">won</a> the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City last month.
Last Saturday, Omar Fateh was <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/07/20/omar-fateh-minneapolis-dfl-endorsement-mayor">endorsed</a> for Minneapolis mayor by the city&#8217;s local Democratic Party at their convention in a shocking upset for current mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat.
&#8220;This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us,&#8221; Fateh posted on X.
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I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. <a href="https://t.co/rU6v90TJPp">https://t.co/rU6v90TJPp</a> <a href="https://t.co/9KX3jSMvcP">pic.twitter.com/9KX3jSMvcP</a>
&mdash; Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/OmarFatehMN/status/1946761856275624188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Frey quickly <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/jacob-frey-files-challenge-dfl-convention/89-51444c91-1bf6-4ab9-9990-ef6457e5a872">filed</a> a formal challenge to Fateh&#8217;s surprise endorsement by the city&#8217;s Democratic Party.
The incumbent mayor oversaw Minneapolis during the George Floyd riots.
Frey knelt and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vph7pc0vFA">wept</a> at Floyd&#8217;s golden casket during his funeral, but he also clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters on abolishing the police department and at one point was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj3vdaC4F7c">shouted</a> out of a protest by a volatile crowd.
If the Minneapolis mayoral election goes the way New York City&#8217;s is right now, Frey could be facing an uphill battle.
New York&#8217;s current mayor Eric Adams is trailing in the polls behind Mamdani, who is running on a progressive platform that overlaps with Fateh&#8217;s.
Mamdani is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-socialist-mamdani-called-for-abolition-of-private-property?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Dem+Socialist+Mamdani+Called+For+‘Abolition+Of+Private+Property’">campaigning</a> on government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than police in crises. He also wants to raise both income and corporate taxes.
Both Minneapolis and New York City will hold their mayoral elections on November 4.
So far, the two democratic socialists have the advantage.

Meet Omar Fateh, The Radical Somali American Socialist Poised To Be The Next Mayor Of Minneapolis

Who Is Omar Fateh, The Somali American Democratic Socialist Running For Minneapolis Mayor?

Disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) announced his plan on Monday to run for the New York City Mayor&#8217;s office, but then said that he&#8217;d bow out of the race if he couldn&#8217;t beat self-described Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani — to whom he already lost the June primary.
Cuomo launched his independent campaign after much speculation that he would do so after losing the primary, but said that he was taking the advice of former Governor David Paterson (D-NY) and would defer to another candidate if said candidate had a better chance of beating Mamdani in November&#8217;s general election.
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Andrew Cuomo says he will exit mayoral race if he can’t beat Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://t.co/5bRGnS8zgZ">https://t.co/5bRGnS8zgZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/3jc50yrdBc">pic.twitter.com/3jc50yrdBc</a>
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&#8220;Governor Paterson put forth a very good idea with [independent mayoral candidate] Mr. Walden,&#8221; Cuomo said. &#8220;We get to September, who&#8217;s the strongest candidate, and the other candidates defer and don&#8217;t compete. Put forth the strongest candidate because it&#8217;s about stopping Mr. Mamdani.&#8221;
&#8220;Whoever the strongest candidate is, that person should go forward,&#8221; Cuomo continued, adding, &#8220;If it&#8217;s me, fine. If it&#8217;s not me, I will defer.&#8221;
Paterson has been outspoken in his calls for a coalition of sorts among the independent candidates, saying during a press conference that one or more independent candidates should drop out in order to prevent Democrats from splitting their votes against the socialist.
Following that press conference, Paterson said that he was <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/ex-gov-david-paterson-said-mamdani-supporters-targeted-his-family/">flooded</a> with &#8220;vitriolic&#8221; phone calls from Mamdani&#8217;s supporters.
&#8220;I got a whole lot of nasty, negative phone calls — really vitriolic — from Mamdani supporters,” Paterson said during an interview. &#8220;[They] called my home. They called my wife. It was really kind of difficult for those 48 hours after the press conference.&#8221;
Paterson, according to Politico reporter Jeff Coltin, is connected to the New York City mayor&#8217;s race on all fronts and not just on the Democratic side. He also has a personal connection to Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
&#8220;David Paterson really is the man in the middle — a friend of Adams, endorsed Cuomo, worked for Walden, stepfather to Sliwa&#8217;s son,&#8221; he said.
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David Paterson really is the man in the middle &#8211; a friend of Adams, endorsed Cuomo, worked for Walden, stepfather to Sliwa&#8217;s son. <a href="https://t.co/Vp4PitXWY7">https://t.co/Vp4PitXWY7</a>
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Cuomo Says He’ll Leave Mayor’s Race If He Can’t Beat Socialist Who Already Beat Him Once

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So far, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year old who won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, is still just a candidate. But in heavily Democratic New York, the Republican, radio host Curtis Sliwa, has little chance of winning. A recent <a href="https://www.racetothewh.com/nycmayorpolling">poll</a> puts Mamdani at 36.4% compared to Sliwa’s 16.3%.
That means the only man standing between Mamdani and the mayor’s office is Eric Adams, a Democrat who last year was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-charged-bribery-and-campaign-finance-offenses">charged</a> with bribery and campaign finance violations. He has also angered his own party by failing to oppose immigration enforcement as much as other “sanctuary city” mayors like Chicago’s Brandon Johnson or Los Angeles’s Karen Bass.
New Yorkers have heard some of Mamdani’s proposals: rent control, free buses, higher taxes on higher earners, city-owned grocery stores, freeing criminal suspects without bail, legalizing prostitution, and replacing some police with social workers.
If one is unfamiliar with history, these promises might sound good. As the Babylon Bee put it, “<a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-discover-innovative-strategy-of-promising-free-stuff-to-stupid-people">Democrats Discover Innovative Strategy of Promising Free Stuff to Stupid People</a>.” This is funny, but unfair. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. New Yorkers aren’t stupid. And plenty of smart people are ignorant – meaning they just don’t know certain things.
Like how New York was back in the 1980s. Those of us who remember the city when Times Square was a den of squalor will know that Sliwa also founded the Guardian Angels, the red-beret sporting extended neighborhood watch that rode the subway to fight crime.
But that was 40 years ago. Most New Yorkers today have no direct experience with that era. At least half of them weren’t educated in New York; they came from abroad or from other states. Nationally, only 13% of U.S. eighth graders are <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1160">proficient</a> in American history. I doubt they know much more about world history, or how “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/we-must-educate-future-generations-the-myths-and-realities-socialism">true socialism</a>” worked when tried.
Those who were raised in New York mostly went through a public school system where, a <a href="https://medium.com/@newyorkteacher/update-guess-all-bs-on-nys-january-regents-exam-3dd8f2a0a713">researcher found</a>, students could pass a math exam by just guessing answer “C” every time.
Some New Yorkers may not know what Mamdani means by “socialism,” “Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS),” and “owning the means of production,” which he talked about in this short clip <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1939516740909621286">posted</a> to X by @EndWokeness. Let me briefly explain.
“Socialism” is how communists describe themselves. Look at the now-defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the current communist countries, the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Cuba, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Lao People’s Republic – none of them mentions “communism” in its name or its official description of itself.
The only thing that makes the American version “Democratic,” as in the “Democratic Socialists of America” organization that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Summer Lee belong to, is that they seek to come to power through elections, rather than violent revolution.
The “BDS” Mamdani wants is about Israel. The <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/what-bds">BDS movement</a> is a “Palestinian-led movement” that seeks to force Israel to accept a Palestinian state on dictated terms by pressuring governments and private companies to boycott (meaning not buy) Israeli goods and services; divest (meaning pull out all investments in Israel and Israeli companies); and sanction (meaning bans on business, finance, travel, etc.).
When he says he wants to “raise class consciousness,” Mamdani is talking about Karl Marx’s vision for how capitalist societies turn communist. Once the worker masses realize they are being exploited, Marxist theory goes, they will overthrow capitalism, take over the government, and “establish a more equitable society.” (Yes, that’s the same “equity” as in DEI, the ideology that captured Western <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7524478/">governments</a>, <a href="https://www.ie.edu/insights/articles/education-for-a-more-equitable-society/">education</a>, <a href="https://www.unitedwaygcr.org/news/together-we-can-build-more-just-and-equitable-society">NGOs</a>, and <a href="https://www.unilever.com/news/news-search/2021/how-we-will-help-build-a-more-equitable-and-inclusive-society/">companies</a>).
Mamdani said the “end goal” of socialism is “seizing the means of production,” by which he means the government taking over factories, companies, mines, energy producers, farms, restaurants, service providers, your aunt’s Etsy page – anything or anyone that creates value, from a Barbie doll to an F-150 truck. The core idea of socialism is that all of it should be taken from private ownership and given to the government to run.
The government will then decide what each of us needs to live on – “<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm">from each, according to his abilities; to each, according to his needs</a>.” If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because it has been tried before – first in the USSR, then in China, Cuba, North Korea, and in various countries in between in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. And with a 100% failure rate.
Every time, once the coveted “means of production” got into the hands of government functionaries — who inevitably grew corrupt — they ceased to produce efficiently and were run into the ground. Under socialism, instead of markets efficiently allocating capital to industry to produce what people need and want, bureaucrats do it through central planning, resulting in starvation, poverty, and misery.
China might be seen as a slight exception to the rule, but that’s only because it ditched much of communism’s economic orthodoxy and let favored people make money, while keeping the corrupt, nepotistic structure of the Communist Party and its social control machinery.
Mamdani reminds us “we need to remember what the stakes are.” He’s right. He’s smart, charming, and media savvy, which makes it all the more important that New Yorkers closely scrutinize his past and current comments and policy positions.
If Mamdani makes it to Gracie Mansion and keeps his promises, he will bring socialism to New York City, good and hard. It will work just as well as it ever did. And some of Manhattan’s wealthy residents will react just like Havana’s did in 1959 – they’ll go to Miami.
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Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, and author of the forthcoming book “The Woke Ten Commandments (You Must Not Obey)” from Academica Press.
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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Socialism In A Designer Suit: NYC Is In For A Hard Lesson If Mamdani Is Elected

Communism

Heritage Foundation

The Scavengers are on the move. 
Scavengers are people who wish to tear down the society in which they live. They have very little in common with one another other than that simple fact. They simply want to tear down everything. That explains the bizarre agglomeration of radicals from across the political spectrum, who seem to gather together to rally against our civilization.
We saw a lot of that this past weekend. There was a march that took place to end Pride Month in Ireland, including a drag queen with a Palestinian flag. 
How do you put all that together? There are no openly gay people among Palestinians.
At the Toronto Pride parade, they flew Iranian flags. Remember, Iran is a place that hangs gay people from cranes. And yet there were people running around with flags reading “Freedom for Iran.”
And now there is the Omnicause flag. You remember the “rainbow pride” flag? Then we got the “pride progress flag” which had side arrows coming in and added white, pink, and blue. Then they added black and brown, because, of course, there are trans people who are black and brown. And then you had intersex people who were added as a yellow.
And now they&#8217;ve added on top of that a heart containing the Palestinian flag, because all the causes are one.
The Omnicause has finally come together. And that Omnicause is the Scavenger mentality. It&#8217;s all the people from the Jean-Paul-Sartre-Hatred-Of-Western-Civilization Left to the Queer Pride Left, who have decided that they are going to band together to destroy the civilization that we all share.
You could see that in action a little bit earlier over the weekend during the so-called Glastonbury Festival, when a member of the British rap punk duo Bob Vylan got up and started chanting “Death to the IDF” and suggesting that if you were a white Briton and you wanted your country back, “F***  off. You don&#8217;t get to get your country back.”
All of which brings us to Zohran Mamdani. 
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So for all of those who keep pretending that Mamdani is a normal Democrat who just has some progressive leanings, the hell he is.
He&#8217;s the Apex Predator of the Intersectional Scavenger Coalition. He is a person who&#8217;s perfectly comfortable talking about spending $65 million in New York City to trans the kids and also talking about “Free, free Palestine” and “Globalize the Intifada” and also how it is deeply important and deeply necessary to seize the means of production.
He&#8217;s not hiding the ball at all. He is a representative of a Left that has lost touch with reality and is now running specifically and solely in order to denigrate and destroy the civilization in which it lives. That is their goal. 
None of these pieces fit together unless you understand that they are all directed toward destroying everything, not building anything.
Over the weekend, Mamdani joined NBC’s Kristen Welker. He was asked about the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which he continues to seize upon and use.
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Understand that the term “intifada” means a violent uprising. That is how the term was coined. It is a term for a violent uprising, particularly against Israel. “Globalizing the intifada” means that you want an extension of a violent uprising all across the West.
The retconning that you&#8217;re seeing now, where people say “intifada” just means a nice, gentle struggle, is the same con pulled in the early 2000s, when some Westerners said “jihad” only meant internal struggle.
Mamdani was asked why he won’t stop saying “globalize the intifada.” He then cited free speech.
He can do whatever he wants. It&#8217;s a free country. But the question is not whether he ought to be allowed to say “globalize the intifada” as an American citizen. He is. The question really is: Is it a good or moral thing to say? 
One of the last refuges of cowards these days is to pretend that your free speech is being violated when you are criticized for saying something bad.
Mamdani’s father, a professor at Columbia University, said in 2021, “The resistance this time began in Jerusalem and spread to Gaza, now the West Bank and Palestinian communities beyond. This is not a conflict between Israel and Hamas. We are witnessing something far more meaningful, the birth of the third Intifada against settler colonialism.” 
You can see exactly where Zohran Mamdani came from. He is a merger of pro-jihadi leftism, a sort of cultural Maoism, a communist vision of economics, and an anti-traditional-virtue version of social politics. All of those things are combined together in a witch&#8217;s brew of nastiness, designed against the civilization that has made him now a famous person and made his parents very wealthy, famous left-wingers.
He&#8217;s embracing Islam, socialism, “free, free Palestine,” and marching in Pride parades in the same way that Ilhan Omar has. You think that Ilhan Omar is very fond of Pride parades or Mamdani — if he really is a religious Muslim in any serious way— is?
What it really is about in the end, as always, is Scavengers who seek to tear things down.
That is what they want to do. 
In the most colloquial sense, the highly-educated, intelligent Democrats are being cuckolded by Mamdani because they&#8217;re watching their party being stolen from them by Zoran Mamdani and cheering it.
They&#8217;re sitting there and they&#8217;re watching and cheering it because, God forbid, they should have to stand up against Zoran Mamdani and his vicious agenda for even a smidgen of a moment and lose the support of the hard Left.
It’s all disgusting and repellent.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped into New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the self-described &#8220;Democratic Socialist&#8221; who bested disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in the Democratic primary.
Leavitt addressed the controversy surrounding Mamdani — which has even some Democrats worried about the optics of endorsing him — and made it clear that, in the White House&#8217;s opinion, Mamdani was just another manifestation of the Democratic Party&#8217;s efforts to undermine &#8220;the very fabric of our country.&#8221;
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> BASHES Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani:
&#8220;The Democrats are DOUBLING DOWN on craziness and radical policies that are undermining the very fabric of our country&#8230;Zohran Mamdani&#8230;a communist who proudly calls to defund the police, pedals anti-Semitism, praises… <a href="https://t.co/HUVT9JFlNi">pic.twitter.com/HUVT9JFlNi</a>
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&#8220;The Democrats are doubling down on craziness and radical policies that are undermining the very fabric of our country,&#8221; she began. &#8220;Just look at the Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani He&#8217;s a Democrat Socialist — really a communist — who proudly calls to defund the police, peddles antisemitism, praises pro-Hamas groups, wants Israel abolished, and believes wealthy Americans should not exist.&#8221;
&#8220;Those are his words, just as recent as this weekend,&#8221; Leavitt continued, referencing Mamdani&#8217;s appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; During that interview, in spite of the fact that host Kristen Welker gave him three opportunities to do so, Mamdani could not being himself to condemn the phrase &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; — a phrase that Welker correctly explained was a call to violence against Jewish people. Mamdani shrugged off the question, claiming that he did not think it was his place to &#8220;police&#8221; the language others might choose.
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Mamdani&#8217;s history of backing anti-Israel protests and the &#8220;Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&#8221; (BDS) against Israel may be what has even some New York Democrats feeling squeamish about offering their endorsement.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY), whose district is 11% Jewish, told ABC News host Jonathan Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; that he didn&#8217;t know Mamdani well enough to endorse him right away.
&#8220;Globalizing the Intifada, by way of example, is not an acceptable phrasing,&#8221; Jeffries explained. &#8220;He’s going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward. With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development.&#8221;

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‘Democrats Are Doubling Down On Craziness’: Leavitt Smokes Zohran Mamdani In Daily Presser

'The Democrats Are Doubling Down On Craziness': Leavitt Smokes Zohran Mamdani In Daily Presser

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Socialism

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist candidate for mayor of New York, said on Thursday that he understood economics better than billionaire Bill Ackman, arguing that Ackman’s opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies was bad for business.
In the wake of Mamdani’s victory Tuesday night in the Democratic primary over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Ackman had stated of Mamdani on X:
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 &#8230; his policies would be disastrous for NYC. Socialism has no place in the economic capital of our country. The ability for NYC to offer services for the poor and needy, let alone the average New Yorker, is entirely dependent on NYC being a business-friendly environment and a place where wealthy residents are willing to spend 183 days and assume the associated tax burden. Unfortunately, both have already started making arrangements for the exits.
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I awoke this morning gravely concerned about New York City. I thought “What has NYC become that an avowed socialist who has supported defunding the police, whose solution to lowering food prices is city-owned supermarkets, who doesn’t understand that freezing rents will only…
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1938094628034506984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Asked by Erin Burnett of CNN about his insistence that New York City raise the top corporate tax rate, Mamdani preached, “I&#8217;d also tell Bill Ackman that I firmly disagree with his attempt to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion across the country because it&#8217;s not only against the morals of so many, it&#8217;s also against the actual bottom line for so many businesses. And as a businessman, he should understand that.”
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Socialist Zohran Mamdani lectures billionaire <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillAckman</a> on the business case for DEI.
Oh, this is rich.
“I’d also tell Bill Ackman that I firmly disagree with his attempt to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion across the country. Because it’s not only against the morals… <a href="https://t.co/az5x2XOjaH">pic.twitter.com/az5x2XOjaH</a>
&mdash; The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1938421381789577432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani, 33, a state assemblyman who grew up the privileged son of “acclaimed Marxist scholar Mahmood Mamdani and Oscar-nominated film director Mira Nair,” as The Indypendent <a href="https://indypendent.org/2020/06/home-foreclosure-specialist-aims-to-take-the-fight-for-housing-racial-justice-from-astoria-to-albany/">reported</a>, attended Bowdoin College, where he <a href="https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Zohran-K-Mamdani">co-founded</a> the school&#8217;s chapter of the radical activist group, Students for Justice in Palestine. His entire job history outside of politics has consisted of working as a foreclosure prevention counselor and a rapper.
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Ackman, by contrast, has invested in businesses so successfully that he is now <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/william-ackman/">worth</a> an estimated $9 billion. He is a signatory of The Giving Pledge, committing to donate at least 50% of his wealth by the end of his life to charitable causes. The resident of New York City was a lifelong Democrat who crossed the aisle to support President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent this mayoral election cycle, slammed Mamdani, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/us-news/eric-adams-officially-kicks-off-nyc-mayoral-campaign-with-swipes-at-zohran-mamdani-blue-collar-or-silver-spoon/">saying</a>, “This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a soup silver spoon. A choice between dirty fingernails and manicured nails. &#8230; This is not a city where you use idealism to stake your giving everything to everyone for free. There&#8217;s no dignity in someone giving you everything for free. There&#8217;s dignity in giving you a job so you can provide for your family and the opportunities that you deserve. So, this is not a city of handouts. This is a city of hands up.”
Mamdani also issued a statement blasting President Trump, stating, “Zohran Mamdani will fight Trump&#8217;s attempts to gouge the working class, and deliver a city where everyone can afford a dignified life. Here&#8217;s how: Make NYC the Strongest Sanctuary City in the Country.”
After asserting his desire to “Get ICE out of all City facilities and end any cooperation,” the statement continued, “The Mamdani administration will:  Invest $165M in funding for immigration legal defense services . &#8230; Protect all personal data from other jurisdictions: The Mamdani administration will take seriously the threat Trump poses and will think expansively about ways to protect undocumented New Yorkers from deportation or other federal attacks.”
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BREAKING: This is the memo that could be Zohran Mamdani’s downfall.
He wants to triple down on making NYC a Sanctuary City and crack down on ICE.
These two policies are extremely unpopular with New Yorkers, especially the middle class. <a href="https://t.co/EuvdjFUyhH">pic.twitter.com/EuvdjFUyhH</a>
&mdash; Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) <a href="https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1938235458607018356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Other actions by Mamdani have also elicited harsh criticism:
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Remember back in 2013 when two Islamist terrorists used a meat cleaver to try to behead British soldier Lee Rigby in the streets of London?
Zohran shared a 2013 article by Glenn Greenwald questioning whether the killing was terrorism because Rigby was a soldier <a href="https://t.co/F5eMdFQo9i">pic.twitter.com/F5eMdFQo9i</a>
&mdash; Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1938506747939066063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani/Ackman

Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Lectures Billionaire, Claims DEI Critics Don’t Understand Business

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New York

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You finally did it, you maniacs! You blew it up.
We are now living at the very end of “Planet of the Apes,” when stunned Americans wander the beaches of New York City and find the Statue of Liberty half-buried in the sand. That’s because Zohran Mamdani, a communist pro-Jihadi insane person who seems to have been bred in the laboratory at Columbia University just to be a leftist pastiche, is now the mayoral frontrunner in New York City because he won the Democratic primary last night in stunning fashion over the disgraced former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html">The New York Times</a>:
<blockquote>Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York on Tuesday night, building leads so commanding that Cuomo actually conceded.</blockquote>
Cuomo said, 
<blockquote>I&#8217;m very proud of the campaign that we ran, and I&#8217;m proud of the effort that we put forth, and I&#8217;m proud of the issues that we discussed. But tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mondani’s night, and he put together a great campaign, and he touched young people and inspired them and moved them and got them to come out and vote. And he really ran a highly impactful campaign. I called him; I congratulated him. I applaud him sincerely for his effort and let&#8217;s give him a round of applause.</blockquote>
So, Sad Sack Cuomo now wants to run as an Independent. We will find out whether that is real or whether that is not real, because after he registers as an independent — and now the mayoral race becomes Eric Adams, who’s running as an independent, and Cuomo running as independent, against Mamdani, who will be the Democratic nominee — Mamdani is pretty clearly the front-runner.
The Times continued: “Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist from Queens, tapped into a current and current of anxiety around New York City&#8217;s growing affordability crisis and his joyful campaign” — it&#8217;s always joyful for The New York Times. When you are a socialist nutjob, that means that you are filled with “joy,” so much “joy,” and anybody who accurately characterizes the state of New York City as not particularly good, that person is filled with rage.
They did the same routine about Kamala Harris. You remember she was so “filled with joy” and Donald Trump was so “filled with rage.”
It turns out that Trump&#8217;s perspective on reality was significantly more linked to reality than Kamala’s perspective.
Apparently, Cuomo was filled with “rage” and “despair,” but Mamdani was filled with joy.
There&#8217;ll be so much “joy” at these state-run supermarkets. I&#8217;m not kidding when I say that. That was one of the Mamdani proposals: he wants the city to run supermarkets because he believes that the profit motive is creating bad grocery choices in New York City, which is psychotic. Socialists have never been good at the distribution of food. That&#8217;s why they have bread lines in socialist countries. And Mamdani is not just a left-leaning Norwegian type. Mamdani is someone who believes in full-scale nationalization, the government running the means of production.
When we say he&#8217;s a communist, he&#8217;s an actual, honest-to-God communist.
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I think the most important thing here to remember is that young Democrats are basically sixth-grade voters in your middle-school election.
If you ever ran for student body president in middle school, you will remember that if you ran a normal campaign pledging, for example, that you were going to clean up the gym better, and then some kid came in and said, “I pledge free ice cream and no homework for everyone,” all the kids voted for that idiot.
That&#8217;s New York City when it comes to all of the Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z voters, particularly white people.
If you look at the voting map of New York City from Tuesday night, you will notice something very funny. Everyone who actually has to live in the parts of the city that are not the richest parts of the city voted against him. 
Mamdani is simply an essential boiling down of every luxury belief that upper-class, college-educated white people hold, and those beliefs are insane.
You wonder why I&#8217;m very much in favor of President Trump effectively wrecking the universities?
This is why. They have become indoctrination centers for Zohran Mamdani and his voters.
Blame this on the upper-class, college-educated white people. That&#8217;s who did this. It shows you that college makes people stupid.
As a resident of Florida since 2020, let me say this to all the high-net-worth individuals in New York City, all the people who pay taxes, all the productive people in New York City with investment firms and financial investments: We&#8217;re here for you, down here in Florida. We&#8217;re here.
But leave your values at the border because your stupid values bought you this. So don&#8217;t come down to my state and wreck my state. We&#8217;ll be checking ID as you come down into my state. We&#8217;ll be deporting all the New York illegal immigrants who come into the state of Florida if you come down here and you bring your Democratic crap politics to my state.
But if you&#8217;re coming down here as an act of contrition and repentance, noticing that your city has completely destroyed itself, noticing that your city is now trending toward full-scale socialism, wrecking all of the things that made New York City great, all of the investment, all of the creativity, all of the innovation, in favor of redistributionist nonsense — if you&#8217;re coming down here and you are simply bringing your productivity and your innovation and yes, your wealth, down to Florida from New York, come on down. We&#8217;re here for you. We&#8217;ll be here for you in your time of need.
And yes, the real estate prices may be a little bit higher since that&#8217;s your penalty for not having seen what was coming in the city that you helped to wreck over a period of time.

Mayoral Candidate For New York Zohran Mamdani Holds Primary Election Night Party

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