Critics across the political spectrum ripped New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday for a statement commemorating the second anniversary of the October 7 terror attack on Israel.
Mamdani posted a statement to his X account on Tuesday that reflects on the attack that marked the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. After commemorating the “horrific war crime,” the self-described “democratic socialist” dedicated most of his statement to condemning Israel for perpetrating “genocide” in Gaza, citing fatality numbers from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
“In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble,” said Mamdani, without noting that Hamas often uses civilian buildings for military functions, in which case those buildings <a href="https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule10">become</a> legitimate military targets under international law.
“Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all,” he continued. “This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.”
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023. <a href="https://t.co/JlsXUeAeYd">pic.twitter.com/JlsXUeAeYd</a>
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1975550702056538512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
The statement drew backlash from the Right and the Left. Dan McLaughlin, a senior writer for National Review, was one of many who accused Mamdani of victim-blaming.
“If Israel’s war *in response to being invaded* is &#8216;genocidal,&#8217; most of the wars fought in the past century would meet that standard on the part of most of the combatants, even those resisting the conquest of their country &amp; the enslavement or extinction of their people,” <a href="https://x.com/baseballcrank/status/1975601985505432051">said</a> McLaughlin.
MSNBC columnist Michael Cohen <a href="https://x.com/speechboy71/status/1975572563033309558">hit</a> Mamdani as well: “On the second anniversary of October 7, one anodyne sentence on how murdering Jews is bad. And the rest is yet another seedy, pejorative attack on Israel.”
David Frum, a writer at The Atlantic, <a href="https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1975560012404826408">posted</a>: “This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity &#8230; the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel&#8217;s self-defense &#8230; together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.”
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GOP Rep. Mike Lawler of New York said that not only should Mamdani’s statement disqualify him to run for mayor, but that anyone who endorses the Democratic candidate should be out of American politics.
Mamdani has <a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements">gained</a> support from notable Democrats such as Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
“This statement is beyond disqualifying — anyone who endorses him for Mayor is completely unqualified too,” Lawler posted. “Any New York Democrat who supports this insanity needs to be defeated at the ballot box.”
Mamdani’s statement <a href="https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1975598416097857604">earned</a> reproach from Israel’s Foreign Ministry as well.
“​​Two years after Hamas launched its barbaric massacre against Israel and the Jewish people, Mamdani has chosen to act as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda — spreading Hamas’s fake genocide campaign,” the ministry responded. “By repeating Hamas’s lies, he excuses terror and normalizes antisemitism. He stands with Jews only when they are dead. Shameful.”

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Many Americans outside New York City are wondering why Zohran Mamdani, a young, media-savvy socialist, is the favorite to win the mayoralty of our most iconic metropolis.
It’s easy to ridicule Mamdani and his promises of a socialist utopia. But to counter the threat of resurgent socialism at the local and national level, we must understand why he appeals to our young people.
It’s partially that young people are scared. They’re afraid that the American dream — a good job, a house, financial security, health care, and a secure retirement — is out of reach, so the socialist message of controlled rent, free services, loan forgiveness, and other largesse is beguiling. They don’t really care who’s going to pay for it.
Older Americans realize the problem with this kind of mentality. For us, the argument against communism and socialism is, well, duh. Because we’ve seen it. But for millennials and Gen Z, there is no personal connection.
Unfortunately, they don’t learn much about it in their history courses either. Not only are they deprived of facts and unlikely to read long textbooks, but the woke curricula used in public schools expose students to much liberal dogma and “critical theory,” instead of just teaching them the dates and facts and how to draw conclusions from them.
To the extent that young Americans relate to the tyrannical regimes of the 20th century, it is to smear their political enemies as “Nazis.” This is, of course, a nonsensical attack.
But it also masks a bleak historical reality. As bad as the Nazis were, they were outdone in sheer scale of offense by the communists. Joseph Stalin starved <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2023-0051/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions</a> to death with his agricultural and economic policies. His internal political purges killed <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over a million</a> more Soviet citizens.
In China, Mao’s supposed “Great Leap Forward” into communist utopia during the 1960s killed roughly <a href="https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/chinas-great-leap-forward/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 million</a> people. A few years later, another <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/10/violence-unfolded-chinas-cultural-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.6 million</a> perished in the Cultural Revolution. Pol Pot slaughtered <a href="https://www.cambodianmuseum.org/remembering-the-killing-fields" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two million</a> of Cambodia’s tiny population.
It may be too late for many millennials and members of Gen Z to grasp the lessons of these tragedies. Perhaps the only thing that will teach them that total state control never delivers prosperity and human flourishing is first-hand experience with “true socialism” in action.
But we still must continue the fight against socialism — and we can’t do that on the fumes of the past.
To combat the persistent threat of socialism, we must first offer a hopeful message by growing the economy, supporting family formation, re-basing education, and restoring fiscal discipline.
Second, we need to better inform the next generation by returning the school curriculum to basics and stripping it of Marxist theory. We should start by changing “Social Studies” back to History. That’s the proper framing — just teach what happened to K-12 students and leave the theories and ideologies until college or graduate school.
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For those lessons to hold, it is essential that states like California, Illinois, and New York don’t bail out their cities for the consequences of socialist policies they voted for. Implemented unchecked, these will most likely reduce the tax base, increase debt, kill economic growth, and end in bankruptcy.
More importantly, the federal taxpayer must never assume the debts of the states. Mamdani wants to spend <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/mamdani-pledges-to-pump-another-100-million-for-free-lawyers-for-migrants-facing-deportation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$100 million</a> on lawyers for illegal immigrants, up to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/new-york-mamdani-free-bus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$800 million</a> on free buses, and millions on free child care, subsidized city grocery stores, public housing, and more. Maybe he’ll be able to tax city residents enough to pay for it. If not, it should be New York’s problem, not all of America’s.
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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The Trump administration froze around $18 billion in infrastructure projects for New York City on Wednesday, citing &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; diversity, equity, and inclusion &#8220;principles.&#8221;
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought <a href="https://x.com/russvought/status/1973386129320665329">announced</a> the move on Wednesday, <a href="https://x.com/russvought/status/1973388530215735570">adding</a> that the billions of dollars in now-frozen funding were earmarked for the Hudson Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway.
&#8220;Roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles,&#8221; Vought wrote on X. &#8220;More info to come soon from [the U.S. Department of Transportation].&#8221;
The Hudson Tunnel project seeks to build a new passenger rail tunnel under the Hudson River and fix the existing North River Tunnels for Amtrak and NJ Transit traffic, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-new-york-infrastructure-funding-trump-schumer-jeffries/">reported</a>. The project focusing on the Second Avenue Subway aims to extend the Q line into Harlem and add new stations.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has <a href="https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-announces-gateway-tunnel_nations-largest-infrastructure-project--will-receive-massive-688-billion-in-fed-funds-largest-federal-transportation-grant-in-history-the-money-for-gateway-is-now-allocated-and-all-systems-go-marks-long-effort-by-senator">made</a> the Hudson Tunnel project a top priority in recent years, securing billions of dollars in federal funding for what he called &#8220;the nation’s largest public works project.&#8221; Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who represents parts of Brooklyn, have spearheaded Democratic resistance to Trump’s government funding proposal.
Jeffries told Vought to &#8220;get lost.&#8221;
&#8220;Again with this guy (and his baseless threats),&#8221; Jeffries <a href="https://x.com/RepJeffries/status/1973413881549631872">said</a>. &#8220;Russ, you are the poster child for privilege and mediocrity. Get lost.&#8221;
Schumer and Jeffries are getting ripped by the Trump administration after their party refused to agree to a deal with Republicans to keep the government funded.
The Trump administration&#8217;s decision to hold funding also comes shortly after the president threatened to withhold federal funding from New York City if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election in November. Mamdani is currently leading by a significant margin in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/nyc-mayoral-election-polls-2025.html">polls</a>.
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&#8220;He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115287641147640374">wrote</a> on Truth Social on Monday. &#8220;He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed, always, for thousands of years. It will fail again, and that’s guaranteed!&#8221;
The administration&#8217;s freeze, however, does not appear to be tied to the mayor&#8217;s race, and it remains unclear which &#8220;DEI principles&#8221; the White House is concerned about.
New York Democratic leaders have been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration this week. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blasted New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday over allegations that the state is handing out commercial driver licenses (CDLs) to illegal immigrants with no name given on the CDL.
&#8220;Kathy Hochul continues her campaign to make New York one of the most lawless states in the country. &#8230; ALL illegally issued CDLs endanger American families on the road. My recent emergency action to restrict CDLs will work to counteract these disastrous, America-Last policies,&#8221; Duffy <a href="https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1973190834926584160">wrote</a> on X.

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President Donald J. Trump on Monday unleashed a political bomb on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, branding him a “self-proclaimed communist” and warning voters the city won’t see a dime of federal funding if the far-Left radical prevails.
“He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115287641147640374">wrote on Truth Social</a>. “Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?”
Mamdani, who has openly embraced socialist policies and swept the Democratic primary by promising a tidal wave of government spending, now finds himself directly in Trump’s crosshairs — and potentially cut off from the very federal cash he needs to make his utopian wish list happen.
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Mamdani has promised:
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<li><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/mamdani-pledges-to-pump-another-100-million-for-free-lawyers-for-migrants-facing-deportation/">$100 million in new legal aid </a>for illegal immigrants facing deportation. Mamdani calls it a “cornerstone” of his campaign.</li>
<li>$6 billion annually for universal childcare.</li>
<li>$700 million a year for “free” bus transit.</li>
<li>200,000 affordable housing units, partially relying on federal funding for NYCHA, which faces a $40 billion repair backlog.</li>
<li>A new Department of Community Safety to strip the NYPD of traditional duties like traffic enforcement and homeless outreach.</li>
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Where does Mamdani think the money will come from? Higher corporate taxes. He’s proposed increasing New York’s corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s, slamming businesses with a 9% burden and suggesting he’ll yank tax exemptions from major universities to help fill the gaps.
But even if New Yorkers are willing to crush private industry with higher taxes, it still wouldn’t come close to covering the cost of Mamdani’s sweeping socialist plans. That’s where Washington comes in. Mamdani has floated plans that hinge in part on federal subsidies and funding for public housing and city infrastructure, although he has been conveniently vague about which federal grants or programs he expects to tap.
In Mamdani’s platform, he proudly touts ideas like converting private housing into “community land trusts,” gutting police responsibilities, and flooding the city budget with new departments and social programs. He’s even vowed to “Trump-Proof NYC” by using city funds to shield illegal immigrants from deportation.
Mamdani&#8217;s game hinges on the cooperation of the federal government.
President Trump ain&#8217;t playing.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that he is dropping out of the race to serve another term.
In a lengthy video posted to X on Sunday afternoon, Adams thanked his mother, touted his diverse appointments, discussed the corruption case against him that was dropped earlier this year, and stated that he was officially ending his campaign to remain Mayor of New York City.
“It&#8217;s not always easy to see the impact of good policy in just three years. &#8230; I know some remain unsure of me after the unfortunate events surrounding my federal case. I was wrongfully charged because I fought for this city, and if I had to do it again, I would fight for New York again,” Adams said in the video. “And yet, despite all we&#8217;ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign. The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board&#8217;s decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign. I hope that over time, New Yorkers will see this city thrived under our leadership, the policies we put in place should be continued and expanded. I hope you will see that despite the headlines and innuendo, I always put you before me.”
Notably, Adams didn&#8217;t endorse any of his rivals during his video address.
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Only in America. Only in New York. 
Thank you for making my story a reality. <a href="https://t.co/efHuyBnITJ">pic.twitter.com/efHuyBnITJ</a>
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1972348511892262962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Adams was running as an independent candidate against socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is also running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
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Adams had been consistently placing last in polling among the four main candidates, with Mamdani in the lead and Cuomo a somewhat distant second. Currently, the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/mayor/general/2025/new-york/mamdani-vs-cuomo-vs-adams-vs-sliwa-vs-walden">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average has Mamdani at 44.4%, with Cuomo at 25.4%, and Sliwa at 13.8%.
The New York City mayoral election is November 4.

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Retired tennis star Serena Williams found apparently racist cotton decor at a New York City hotel this past week, and complained about it on Instagram.
Williams, who&#8217;s in NYC for a Kim Kardashian <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/09/25/celebrity-news/serena-williams-calls-out-nyc-hotels-cotton-plant-decoration/">event</a>, shared video of her examining a vase filled with faux cotton stems and asking her followers how they &#8220;feel&#8221; about it. She said, &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t feel great,&#8221; and visibly shivered over the sight of it.
Williams shared the video via Instagram Stories, where the athlete has 18 million followers.
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Serena Williams gets triggered by a cotton plant at her luxury hotel
These people are so fu#%ing insufferable and performative
Acting triggered with a $250m net worth and a long blonde wig is wild
You crip-walked at the Super Bowl and your sister was killed by crips
Sit down <a href="https://t.co/Ej1yDaDl6u">pic.twitter.com/Ej1yDaDl6u</a>
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmiriKing/status/1971634415395803144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
Journalist Megyn Kelly reacted to the video, noting Williams&#8217; tremendous success in America.
&#8220;Serena Williams is triggered by cotton, I guess because it used to be picked by slaves, and she&#8217;s a black American? It&#8217;s 2025,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;Serena Williams is estimated by Forbes to be worth $350 million. She&#8217;s married to a very, very rich man, too.&#8221;
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&#8220;But she is an oppressed, direct descendant of slaves, I guess, and that&#8217;s how she sees herself to this day, because, I guess, &#8216;generational trauma,&#8217; as the kids call it,&#8221; Kelly continued. &#8220;She can&#8217;t walk by a cotton plant in a luxury hotel to go promote Kim Kardashian&#8217;s Skims line without feeling &#8216;trauma&#8217; that she has to videotape and post on [Instagram].&#8221;
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Megyn Kelly reacts to Serena Williams&#8217; bizarre post on cotton at a luxury hotel.
&#8220;Serena Williams is triggered by cotton I guess because it used to be picked by slaves and she&#8217;s a black American? It&#8217;s 2025. Serena Williams is estimated by Forbes to be worth $350 million.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wRENsBClAu">pic.twitter.com/wRENsBClAu</a>
— Girl patriot (@Girlpatriot1974) <a href="https://twitter.com/Girlpatriot1974/status/1971801473391657305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
This is not the first time Williams has seemed to complain about alleged racism. The tennis superstar, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, blasted an image of a luxury Paris hotel restaurant last year to her 10 million followers while suggesting the restaurant &#8220;denied&#8221; her service because she&#8217;s black.
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“Yikes [Peninsula Paris] I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a [sic] empty <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/restaurant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restaurant</a> of nicer places but never with my kids,” she posted August 5, 2024. “Always a first. #Olympic2024.”
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Yikes <a href="https://twitter.com/peninsulaparis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@peninsulaparis</a> I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places 🫠 but never with my kids. Always a first. 🙄<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Olympic2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Olympic2024</a> <a href="https://t.co/lEGJR5WoEn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/lEGJR5WoEn</a>
— Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) <a href="https://twitter.com/serenawilliams/status/1820507655250850058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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However, a spokesperson from The Peninsula Paris responded to the accusation and said the restaurant was simply booked up.
“Dear Mrs. Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved,” the restaurant’s official account <a href="https://x.com/peninsulaparis/status/1820533467358371858" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “We have always been honored to welcome you and will always be to welcome you again. The Peninsula Paris.&#8221;
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We have always been honored to welcome you and will always be to welcome you again.
The Peninsula Paris
— The Peninsula Paris (@peninsulaparis) <a href="https://twitter.com/peninsulaparis/status/1820533513420239099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
Williams recently made headlines for teaming up with Ro, a telehealth company that offers GLP-1 weight loss drugs. The mother of two is featured in marketing campaigns aimed at normalizing the drugs, and she&#8217;s openly discussed using them for weight loss herself.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serena-williams-trashes-open-christian-harrison-butker-at-espy-awards?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Serena+Williams+Trashes+Open+Christian+Harrison+Butker+At+ESPY+Awards">Serena Williams Trashes Open Christian Harrison Butker At ESPY Awards</a>

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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>
</ul>
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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.
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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.
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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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Do New Yorkers Understand What They Are Voting For?

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As climate alarmists gather in New York City for “Climate Week,” a new mobile billboard has popped up that chips away at the alliance between Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul and radical environmental groups.
The mobile billboard features images of Hochul wearing a MAGA-style hat saying “Make Nuclear Great Again,” photos of the vehicle obtained by The Daily Wire show. The mobile billboard highlights Hochul’s recent promise to bring a new nuclear power plant to New York.
The billboard features a quote from Hochul describing plans for the new plant as “a model of 21st century nuclear design.” The mobile first started driving around New York City on Monday and will continue until Wednesday.
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Nuclear power is a form of energy frequently opposed by environmentalist groups who prefer things like wind or solar power. The Daily Wire reached out to multiple environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greenpeace that have previously expressed support for Hochul, yet also oppose nuclear energy.
The Sierra Club <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/nuclear-free" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that it is “unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy” and wants to work to “phase out nuclear as quickly as possible.” The Natural Resource Defense Council has also <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/nuclear-power-101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> skepticism about nuclear energy.
Both those organizations <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-oil-companies-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> Hochul’s <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/governor-hochul-signs-bill-make-polluters-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">establishment</a> in December of a “Climate Superfund” that her office claimed <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-landmark-legislation-creating-new-climate-superfund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shifted</a> “the cost of climate adaptation from everyday New Yorkers to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for the pollution.&#8221;
Additionally, Greenpeace <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate/issues/nuclear/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that nuclear energy is “dirty, expensive, and dangerous” and argues that it’s “bad for the economy.” The organization previously <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpeace-usa-applauds-new-york-governor-hochuls-moratorium-on-crypto-mining/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applauded</a> Hochul after she signed a moratorium on crypto mining.
President Donald Trump, who ripped into solar and wind power on Tuesday during his speech to the United Nations, took executive action in May “to modernize nuclear regulation, streamline nuclear reactor testing, deploy nuclear reactors for national security, and reinvigorate the nuclear industrial base.”
Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Hochul <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-directs-new-york-power-authority-develop-zero-emission-advanced-nuclear-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directed</a> the New York Power Authority “to develop and construct a zero-emission advanced nuclear power plant.”
That decision was met with criticism from some environmentalists who accused her of adopting Trump policies. The group Public Power NY <a href="https://publicpowerny.org/press-releases/public-power-ny-responds-to-hochuls-order-for-new-york-power-authority-to-build-nuclear-energy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the decision was “based on promises from Donald Trump&#8221; that &#8220;shows just how unserious she is about New Yorkers&#8217; energy bills and climate future.”
Hochul, who is running for re-election, is viewed favorably by fewer than 50% of New Yorkers, <a href="https://sri.siena.edu/2025/09/16/hochul-approval-favorability-ratings-up-a-little-favorability-best-since-jan-24-majority-hochul-works-hard-demonstrates-honesty-integrity-plurality-gets-things-done-provides-dec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to recent polling.

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Mobile Billboard Trolls Kathy Hochul In NYC As She Faces Criticism From Climate Activists

Climate Change

Environmentalists

Greenpeace

Kathy Hochul

Nuclear Power

“Dawson’s Creek” actor James Van Der Beek sent a video message to fans during the show’s reunion to make up for not being able to attend.
The 48-year-old celeb was forced to drop out of the event at the last minute due to a stomach illness. Van Der Beek has been battling stage 3 colorectal cancer since last year, as he previously announced.
“I have been looking forward to this night for months and months ever since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together,” the “Dawson’s Creek” alum said in the recorded message, per <a href="https://people.com/james-van-der-beek-makes-surprise-appearance-dawsons-creek-reunion-after-canceling-due-illness-11815128">People</a>. “I can’t believe I’m not there. I can’t believe I don’t get to see my cast mates, my beautiful cast in person.”
“And just I want to stand on that stage and thank every single person in the theater for being here tonight,” Van Der Beek continued. “From the cast to the crew to everybody who’s doing anything and has been so generous, and especially every single last one of you – you are the best fans in the world.”
&#8220;Thank you for coming. It&#8217;s just absolutely humbling just how much you did for this night, and I just want to say thank you. Thank you to every single person here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And, obviously, on &#8216;Dawson&#8217;s Creek,&#8217; I had no understudy, but this is Broadway, and I needed one. So we figured we&#8217;d try to find somebody who had never understudied in this theater before.&#8221;
The actor had “Hamilton” creator Lin Manuel Miranda take his place at the event, which included a live table read of the pilot episode. The original cast was all in attendance, including Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, and several others.
Van Der Beek’s wife and children were also in the audience at Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.
The star of the teen drama previously warned fans he wouldn’t be able to make the event with a social media post.
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“This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January,” Van Der Beek shared to Instagram on Monday.
“So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment. Despite every effort… I won’t get to be there. I won’t get to stand on that stage and thank every soul in the theater for showing up for me, and against cancer, when I needed it most.”

James Van Der Beek

James Van Der Beek Sends Video Message To ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Reunion After Illness Knocks Him Out

Cancer

Entertainment

Television

The Secret Service said Tuesday that it had dismantled a network of electronic devices in New York that had been used to target senior federal government officials with telecommunications threats. 
The agency said that the network posed a threat to its “protective operations” and that it could have been used to disrupt Tuesday&#8217;s meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Investigators discovered 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites &#8220;capable of crippling telecom systems and carrying out anonymous telephonic attacks.&#8221; The network is tied to foreign actors and individuals known to law enforcement. The announcement comes just hours before President Donald Trump is set to address the UN.
“The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,” said U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran. “The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled.”
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The devices were found in the New York Tri-State Area within 35 miles of the UN headquarters. CBS <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-secret-service-disrupts-telecom-network-threatened-new-york-city-u-n-general-assembly/">reported</a> that the devices were found in abandoned apartment buildings. 
Secret Service agent Matt McCool said that no arrests had been made and that the agency was still determining everyone who was behind the network. 
“We will continue working toward identifying those responsible and their intent, including whether their plan was to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and communications of government and emergency personnel during the official visit of world leaders in and around New York City,” he said. 
McCool said the attacks happened in the spring but did not reveal which officials were targeted.
“These devices allowed anonymous encrypted communications between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises, enabling criminal organizations to operate undetected,” he said. “This network had the potential to disable cell phone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City.” 
Multiple agencies were involved in the investigation, including Homeland Security Investigations, the Justice Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the New York City Police Department.

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Secret Service Dismantles ‘Imminent’ Electronic Threat Ahead Of Trump UN Speech

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Secret Service

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Nearly a dozen Democratic officials were arrested by federal authorities on Thursday after attempting to storm Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells in New York City that were packed with egregious illegal immigrant criminals, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, along with 10 other lawmakers, arrived at the ICE facility at 26 Federal Plaza. There, they engaged in an hour-long standoff with federal officers, sitting on the floor, chanting, and holding up a banner that read: “NYers against ICE,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/elected-officials-arrested-ice-new-york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. Lander “yelled” out that he was ‘not leaving’ until detainees were ‘released,’” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.
The clash played out in front of ICE cells holding an MS-13 gang member convicted of criminal possession of a weapon and DUI, along with illegal immigrants carrying convictions for criminal possession of a gun and drug trafficking, according to DHS.
Another illegal immigrant in the facility was previously arrested for flying drones near the White House multiple times, and one had enough fentanyl to kill a million people.
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NEW: Per multiple ICE sources, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander &amp; other politicians &amp; protesters are currently trying to get into the 10th floor ICE office &amp; holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, while other protesters are blocking ICE vans from leaving the facility downstairs.… <a href="https://t.co/v9YIufWDZ3">pic.twitter.com/v9YIufWDZ3</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1968775096597889452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
“Another day, another activist politician pulling a stunt in an attempt to get their 15 minutes of fame while endangering DHS personnel and detainees,” said McLaughlin.
“As a result of the chaos caused by Lander, Federal Protective Service called NYPD, and local police, along with federal law enforcement arrested 71 agitators and sanctuary politicians including Brad Lander, two New York State Senators, and nine New York State Assembly Members,” she added.
The building was subsequently placed “on lockdown because someone called in a bomb threat,” according to McLaughlin.
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Happening NOW: New Yorkers Against ICE!
We are at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE abducts immigrant New Yorkers, to demand access to the 10th floor and block ICE vans from leaving.
NYers refuse to stand by while ICE abducts our neighbors. Neither should our leaders. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICEoutofNY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICEoutofNY</a> <a href="https://t.co/gmSahHkGbI">pic.twitter.com/gmSahHkGbI</a>
— Brad Lander (@bradlander) <a href="https://twitter.com/bradlander/status/1968757136344723758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Lander, who was previously detained while allegedly trying to shield an illegal immigrant from ICE in June, expressed outrage over reported overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in the ICE cells, according to the Times.
“Brad Lander’s obsession with attacking the brave men and women of law enforcement, physically and rhetorically, must stop NOW. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens to protect and defend the lives of American citizens,” said McLaughlin.
“This type of rhetoric is contributing to the 1000% surge in assaults of ICE officers through this repeated vilification and demonization of ICE,” she added.
After he was released, Lander said the officials were charged with a misdemeanor for blocking access to entrances and corridors, according to the Times. Those arrested also included Julia Salazar, a state senator from Brooklyn; Gustavo Rivera, a state senator from the Bronx; and Emily Gallagher and Marcela Mitaynes, both assemblywomen from Brooklyn.

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CNN reported this week that the popularity of socialism among Democrats has soared from a paltry 7% approval in 2010 to more than 36% in 2025.
“Look at this, net popularity of socialism among Democrats,” CNN pollster Harry Enten proclaimed. “You go back to 2010, it was plus seven points. Look how high it is now, up like a rocket, up to plus 36 points. That&#8217;s a jump of nearly 30 points on the net popularity scale among Democrats in just 15 years.”
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Re: Mamdani/Hochul, Dems see socialism as five letter word: &#8220;great&#8221;.
The net popularity of socialism is up 29 pts since 2010 with Dems. Capitalism, however, has a net negative rating with Dems.
This should leave the GOP/Trump salivating as socialism remains unpopular overall. <a href="https://t.co/9txWvJQVuJ">pic.twitter.com/9txWvJQVuJ</a>
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1967974926503088548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A recent <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/694835/image-capitalism-slips.aspx">Gallup poll</a> bolstered the notion that Democrats are turning toward socialism, noting, “For the first time, less than half of Democrats (42%) view capitalism positively &#8230; Stability in U.S. adults’ opinions of socialism obscures Democrats’ more positive views of it over time, from 50% rating it positively in the initial 2010 reading to roughly two-thirds in three readings since 2019.”
Speaking of the disparate views of Republicans, Democrats, and independents, Gallup pointed out, “Democrats are the only partisan group of the three that views socialism more positively than capitalism — 66% to 42%, respectively. Independents are modestly more pro-capitalism than pro-socialism (51% vs. 38%), while Republicans are overwhelmingly so (74% vs. 14%).”
“This is where the danger is for Democrats, because if socialism plays in Democratic primaries, it does not play in the general electorate,” Enten continued. “Net popularity among all adults, capitalism is on the positive side of the ledger at plus 12 points. Socialism way, way, way underwater at minus 18 points. So, that&#8217;s capitalism running away by 30 points over socialism. &#8230; something may play in Democratic primaries. It may play in the very Democratic city of New York. But among the general electorate, Republicans are salivating at the idea that they can run against a Democratic socialist being the mayor of New York City.”
At a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-and-mamdani-push-socialism-smear-israel-at-town-hall?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bernie+And+Mamdani+Push+Socialism%2C+Smear+Israel+At+Town+Hall">town hall</a> earlier this month, New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Vermont’s socialist-in-chief, Senator Bernie Sanders, displayed their devotion to socialism. Rather than discuss real solutions for New York’s public safety crisis, housing shortages, or spiraling budget deficits, Mamdani and Sanders devoted most of their energy to blaming the usual scapegoats: billionaires, corporations, Republicans, and of course, President Donald Trump. Mamdani railed against Trump’s tax legislation — calling it a “wealth transfer” — as if the city’s poverty and housing crisis suddenly began in 2016. He glossed over New York’s decades of Democrat mismanagement, choosing instead to indict the president for everything from hunger to homelessness.
According to Sanders, the United States is now an oligarchy run by cartoon villains, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Rupert Murdoch. He lamented the “six media conglomerates” that supposedly control everything Americans read and think — somehow omitting the overwhelming liberal slant of most mainstream outlets.
For notable examples of how socialism fails, one need look no farther than countries that implemented socialist or communist policies, such as Venezuela, once one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, which has suffered hyperinflation (up to 1,000,000% in 2018) and massive shortages of food and medicine; the Soviet Union, where its Marxist-Leninist communism led to famines (e.g., Holodomor in Ukraine) and economic stagnation by the 1980s; Cuba, which has chronic economic stagnation, or North Korea, where 2-3 million people died of starvation in the 1990s.

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