A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/please-sign-to-support-honoring-the-memory-of-those-lost-on-september-11th-with-dignity">bombshell petition</a> demanding Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani be banned from attending the upcoming 25th anniversary 9/11 commemoration at Ground Zero has officially hit 50,000 signatures, and Hollywood star Patricia Heaton is <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/29/us-news/patricia-heaton-joins-effort-to-ban-mamdani-from-9-11-anniversary-ceremony/">cheering the movement on</a>.
The massive groundswell of support comes as heartbroken victims’ families fight to keep the socialist mayor far away from the memorial site. The push recently got a major boost from the &#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; star, who cheered on petitioners with an enthusiastic &#8220;Keep it going New Yorkers&#8221; post on social media while sharing a link to the campaign.
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Keep it going New Yorkers <a href="https://t.co/xBMIgWNzYG">https://t.co/xBMIgWNzYG</a>
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The crusade is spearheaded by 9/11 widower Giovanni Galante, who tragically lost his wife, Grace, in the horrific terror attacks. The petition demands that organizers bar Mamdani from the upcoming milestone ceremony. For the grieving families, Mamdani’s presence would amount to a slap in the face on a deeply personal day of mourning.
Organizers argue the mayor has forfeited any right to stand on sacred ground, pointing to a string of controversial public statements, questionable alliances, and radical political ties.
In a blistering statement accompanying the petition, organizers laid out a rap sheet of grievances regarding the mayor. The grievances included his refusal to unequivocally denounce the inflammatory rallying cry &#8220;globalize the intifada”; his endorsements of an activist who dismissed 9/11 as merely an act done in the context of &#8220;U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,&#8221; and socialist primary winner Darializa Avila Chevalier, who boasted about wiping her dirty hands on the American flag.
The statement also calls out Mamdani&#8217;s hiring of Ramzi Kassem as the city’s chief counsel, despite Kassem having represented a convicted al-Qaeda operative involved in a tanker bombing plot, and his public comments blaming the U.S. government for radicalizing high-profile al-Qaeda propagandists like Anwar al-Awlaki.
&#8220;This anniversary is one of remembrance grounded in shared American values,&#8221; the petition states.
For the families who suffered unimaginable loss 25 years ago, allowing Mamdani to participate in the milestone event risks tarnishing the sacred integrity of Ground Zero.
Despite the intense backlash and the skyrocketing signature count, Mamdani is insisting he fully intends to show up at Ground Zero in September to mark the solemn day alongside New Yorkers.

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Sitcom Star Joins Push To Ban Mamdani From 9/11 Ceremony

9/11

Patricia Heaton

Zohran Mamdani

New York City has fallen.
It’s similar to “The Dark Knight Rises,” when the villain Bane decides to take over and destroy Gotham City by unleashing a gigantic class war.
Now imagine that Bane doesn&#8217;t wear a mask, but instead a smarmy smile, has the adoration of the entire legacy media, and also sympathizes with radical Islamists in their hatred for the United States.
That’s Zohran Mamdani.
It is certainly not unprecedented in human history that when people take positions of power, they seek to unleash the proletariat against the bourgeois. It’s quite common.
That’s what Zohran Mamdani did on Monday in the most obvious and disgusting way.
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The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/us-news/mamdani-names-all-nyc-property-owners-who-could-be-hit-with-new-pied-a-terre-tax/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has published a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state’s new pied-à-terre tax, effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers. The city’s Department of Finance uploaded the comprehensive list — which purports to cover all unoccupied, non-primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of $1 million — including the full names and addresses of every property owner. &#8230; Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and Hochul initially sold it to the public. 
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Why is it your business which person owes taxes? As long as they are abiding by the law and paying the tax that they owe, why should you know their name and address?
There&#8217;s only one reason to dox people this way — releasing people&#8217;s names and addresses and saying, &#8220;These are the Richie Riches.&#8221; 
You wish to unleash the proletariat on the bourgeoisie. You are increasing danger to actual human beings for political gain.
That is what Mamdani is doing. It turns out that he&#8217;s also bad at it, because he also is targeting a bunch of people who are living in their apartments. Remember, pied-à-terre is supposed to be a second home tax. Instead, he listed a bunch of people who live in their homes.
This is an intimidation tactic. Mamdani’s goal is to force people to leave. This is revolution. The idea is you are not protected if you are in New York. In fact, they are going to put out your name and address. If you are famous and rich and you own a place, you either have to pay for additional security — an unofficial tax just to keep your home safe — or sell it and go.
That is not going to alleviate the housing problem. All of the communist &#8220;solutions&#8221; that are being proposed by Mamdani are not about actual solutions. They&#8217;re about destroying the system from within.
That’s because if you force all these people to sell, it leads to a decline in home prices. That decline sounds good at the beginning, but it turns out that when you have rent control and heavy building regulation, no one is going to build a home ever again because if the only way that anyone could make a profit was to build a new home but you&#8217;re forcing the market down, what you are doing is removing all incentive for development. No one is going to build new houses or new apartment buildings in New York.
I know many, many, many investors at this point who are pulling their money from New York City as we speak. We&#8217;re also talking about a massive decline in tax revenues. The people who bought those places and are already paying property tax in New York City are not taking advantage of New York City&#8217;s services because they&#8217;re not there full-time. They are already tax-positive for New York City.
But none of this is the real point, which is that class resentment is literal class warfare. That is the goal. It is the first step. It is about unleashing a population against the rich. It is about eating the rich. That&#8217;s all it is.
This is nothing new. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in &#8220;The Communist Manifesto&#8221;: 
<blockquote>Revolution cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production, by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.</blockquote>
In other words, make things unworkable. Jam the system, and when you jam the system, you create more ire and more anger and more of a movement. And eventually that turns into full-scale property seizures or mobilizing the population against one another.
That is the goal. You&#8217;ve seen this in every communist country; all of them. In 1929, Stalin was unleashing the proletariat against the so-called kulaks, the private homeowners and landowners. Mao in 1934 gave a speech in which he said, “If we only mobilize the people to carry on the war and do nothing else, can we succeed in defeating the enemy? Of course not. If we want to win, we must do a great deal more. We must lead the peasants’ struggle for land and distribute the land to them.”
It is the same logic always and forever. It starts off with populist talk, then turns into the complete violation of private property, its seizure, and violence.
In the United States, we have a right to property ownership. We have a Constitution. We do have laws on the books — at least for now.
Mamdani is using pure intimidation. It&#8217;s why, a few months back, he posted a video pointing to Ken Griffin&#8217;s apartment in New York City in an attempt to intimidate him.
That&#8217;s the only reason you do these things: to mobilize one group of people against those who are wealthier than they are.
It&#8217;s disgusting. It is vile. He&#8217;s not saying he&#8217;s going to make your life better. He&#8217;s pledging to make the rich guy&#8217;s life worse. That’s supposed to be what you rally around. It is full-scale destructive.
It is Bane. Understand that for Zohran Mamdani, the Bane mask isn&#8217;t the face mask Tom Hardy wore. The face mask is the smile.
Because underneath that smarmy smile, underneath that plastered-on grin, is the most vile anti-American person you can imagine.
And he’s running New York City.

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The Bane Playbook Is No Longer Fiction

Ben Shapiro

New York City

Opinion

Peace, Land, and Bread. That&#8217;s the promise of Zohran Mamdani, esteemed leader of the triumphant five sanitation bur — Oh, wait.
No. That was the propaganda of Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917 Russia, sold to workers, soldiers, and peasants who were desperate enough to believe it.
Funny. It sure sounds an awful lot like what Zohran&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-suffers-under-theater-kid-commie-rule-and-no-one-should-be-surprised?row=0&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;rowType=Web+Search+Overlay">selling</a> now. He campaigned on cheaper land, at the expense of whoever currently owns it. He urges New Yorkers to take to the streets the moment they feel a whisper of &#8220;frustration or opposition,&#8221; all in pursuit of peace, naturally. And yesterday, he promised cheaper bread, at the expense of whoever currently sells it.
That last one struck a nerve with anyone still operating on two working brain cells.
New York City&#8217;s anti-American communist mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economists-lose-their-minds-over-mamdani-supermarkets-literally-how-you-destroy-an-economy?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Economists+Lose+Their+Minds+Over+Mamdani+Supermarkets%3A+%E2%80%98LITERALLY+How+You+Destroy+An+Economy%E2%80%99">announced</a> to his proletariat that he&#8217;ll spend $70 million of their tax dollars opening five government-owned grocery stores, offering a mandatory 30% discount on &#8220;essential staples&#8221; like cheese, milk, and bread.
&#8220;No exceptions. No gimmicks.&#8221;
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Mamdani: Today, I am proud to announce a collection of essential staples that will be predictably 30% cheaper at all five of our city-run grocery stores. This core set of goods will include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese,… <a href="https://t.co/CFyVjVBHqz">pic.twitter.com/CFyVjVBHqz</a>
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Oh, honey. He must&#8217;ve gotten into Hunter Biden&#8217;s stash, because this is the dictionary definition of a gimmick.
Here&#8217;s how it actually works. Mamdani&#8217;s stores skip property taxes and rent; the bodega down the block does not. That&#8217;s how you sell bread 30% under market price without losing your shirt on day one, and it&#8217;s a trick your corner store can&#8217;t pull off no matter how hard the Marxist wand waves.
The problem is, grocery stores already limp along on razor-thin 2% <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathangoldman/2026/07/28/do-mamdanis-city-run-grocery-stores-break-economics-101/">margins</a>. Drop a taxpayer-funded competitor into the mix, selling everything a third cheaper, and mom-and-pop shops don&#8217;t just eat the difference. They bleed until they can&#8217;t anymore. Then they close.
Once the bodegas are gone and Mamdani Mart is the only game left in town, the &#8220;savings&#8221; don&#8217;t stop costing money; they just get quietly rerouted to the taxpayer, at a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/28/mamdani-nyc-grocery-stores-discount-local-businesses/">projected</a> 28 cents lost on every dollar sold. And when the budget finally buckles, and the subsidies get slashed, those city stores turn into empty shells stocked with rotting inventory, and New Yorkers are taking two trains and a bus to find a grocery store that still has groceries in it.
But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s fine.
Totally different from the Soviet Union. And totally different from Kansas City, which ran this exact experiment in 2024 and <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/government-funded-grocery-store-flounders-midwest-city-similar-proposal-gains-steam-nyc">lost</a> the state almost $900,000. Third time&#8217;s the charm.
In Bolshevik Russia, the truth hiding between the propaganda&#8217;s lines read: seize the grain, fix the prices, make the state the only grocery store in town.
No exceptions. No gimmicks.
Turns out when the government takes your surplus grain whether you like it or not, you stop growing surplus grain. Why farm extra wheat just to hand it over for free? Peasants planted only enough to feed their own families, transport collapsed under the weight of central planning, and the shiny new state shops ended up with bare shelves and day-long bread lines, where people froze half to death hoping a loaf might, maybe, show up.
Mamdani never went hungry, though. He had a private chef in his mansion. Oh, sorry. I meant Lenin.
The Soviet dictator fixed the price of bread by decree and had the state swallow the difference, because state grocery stores don&#8217;t answer to supply and demand. They answer to whoever&#8217;s holding the gun, or the budget, or both. (The Second Amendment&#8217;s looking better by the paragraph.)
Mamdani&#8217;s simply running the same experiment with one hundred extra years of PR polish, and a grin that belongs on the poster for Smile 3. He&#8217;s not asking the market what bread should cost; he&#8217;s telling it.
Ahh. What a week for New Yorkers already. On Monday, their mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-doxxes-his-own-constituents-days-after-terror-attack?row=1&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;rowType=Web+Search+Overlay%5C">doxxed</a> 30,000 of his richest constituents, publishing exactly who&#8217;d be receiving a &#8220;Pied-à-terre&#8221; love tax, in a city that just watched a CEO get gunned down for the crime of being wealthy. Then he announced he&#8217;d be attending 9/11 commemorations, despite campaigning alongside <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-pied-piker-is-leading-all-the-anti-american-vermin">radicals</a> who said America deserved it. And now this?
Here&#8217;s hoping he doesn&#8217;t crawl out of his dwelling hole today. New York&#8217;s collective blood pressure can&#8217;t survive one more thing.
Peace, Land, and Bread. ✌️
Lenin promised it in 1917, and the peasants got grain requisitions, ration lines, and a famine. A century later, Zohran promises the same thing, and New Yorkers are getting doxx-the-rich lists, higher rent, government cheese, and a mayor who thinks <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dsa-gang-is-cosplaying-mao-to-destroy-america?author=Chloe+Trapanotto&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+DSA+Gang+Is+Cosplaying+Mao+To+Destroy+America">Karl Marx</a> was simply misunderstood.
The next thing you know, he&#8217;ll be using capitalism to sell &#8220;Protest, Rent Freeze, and 30% Off Bread&#8221; tee shirts.
One color only: red.

NYC Mayor Mamdani Holds News Conference On Municipal Grocery Store Announcement

Mamdani Mart And The Death Of The Bodega

Bodega

DW Opinion

Marxism

Vladimir Lenin

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool, just held an &#8220;emergency press conference&#8221; explaining why New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t wanted at the 9/11 25th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony.
The millionaire social media mogul took to X Monday night to list several reasons why Mamdani should be excluded from the ceremony, emphasizing that the socialist mayor has not &#8220;hid who he is.&#8221;
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Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don’t want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?
He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11
He endorsed Claire Valdez who also said America deserved 9/11
He… <a href="https://t.co/EH1vQMysWb">https://t.co/EH1vQMysWb</a>
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/2081922743230984620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11,&#8221; Portnoy began.
Portnoy is correct. In 2019, on a Twitch livestream, Piker said, &#8220;America deserved 9/11, dude. F*ck it, I&#8217;m saying it,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We totally brought it upon ourselves … We did, we f*cking did.&#8221;
Portnoy then pointed out that Mamdani endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, who co-founded a group at Columbia University whose <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/anti-israel-columbia-students-call-for-total-eradication-of-western-civilization-divest-palestine-hamas-bangladesh-protests-demonstrations">mission</a> included this statement: &#8220;We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.&#8221;
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The Massachusetts native also pointed out that back in 2013 Mamdani sympathized with the Boston Marathon bombers who killed three and injured more than 250 people on April 15, 2013.
Five days after that terrorist attack, Mamdani defended one of the bombers in a <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/325639432000655361?s=20">post</a> that read, &#8220;The implications of not mirandizing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.&#8221;
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, justified suicide bombing three years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil in his 2004 book titled &#8220;Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror.&#8221;
The elder Mamdani said that &#8220;we need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.&#8221;
Portnoy continued with nearly a dozen more reasons why he believes 9/11 families don’t want to see Mamdani on the 25th anniversary of arguably the worst day of their lives.
Making a name for himself in sports, Portnoy hasn’t shied away from political issues over the last few years. He spoke out against Mamdani during his mayoral campaign, and is still baffled at how someone who has repeatedly refused to denounce anti-America rhetoric can be in charge of the country’s most-populated city.
&#8220;How the hell did we get here in the 1st place?&#8221; Portnoy asked Monday.
Critics of Mamdani, including Portnoy, haven’t forgotten his previous statements and endorsements, which are mentioned at length in <a href="https://www.change.org/p/please-sign-to-support-honoring-the-memory-of-those-lost-on-september-11th-with-dignity?recruiter=1421960844&amp;recruited_by_id=0999a100-7bbb-11f1-8944-997c0a94f6b3&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;share_id=kbk5YJfjfS">a petition</a> initiated by 9/11 widower Giovanni Galante.
Galante&#8217;s petition has more than 25,000 signatures and counting in support of keeping Mamdani away from the ceremony meant to honor and remember the lives lost to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
&#8220;We felt that having Mamdani there would show a disrespect to our family members because of the people he supports,&#8221; Galante told CBS New York.
&#8220;Mr. Mamdani’s own father, whom he has acknowledged as having shaped his views, penned a book shortly after 9/11 in which he argued that suicide bombers should be &#8216;understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,'&#8221; Galante wrote. &#8220;He also argued that there was a moral equivalence between the United States and al-Qaeda.&#8221;
It’s a question Dave Portnoy and 25,000-plus people are asking as Mamdani defends his right to attend the ceremony.

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Dave Portnoy Goes Scorched Earth On Mamdani Over 9/11 Controversy

New York

News

Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani came under fire Monday after making another promise for his controversial plan for city-run grocery stores, with critics, business leaders, and economists savaging the $70 million taxpayer-funded scheme as an illiterate economic disaster that will drive neighborhood bodegas into bankruptcy.
The backlash came swift and furious just hours after Mamdani took to the stage to proudly pitch a network of five government-owned supermarkets promising a mandatory 30% discount on &#8220;essential staples&#8221; like meat, produce, cheese, and milk. Brandishing a plantain and hawking a QR code like a late-night pitchman, Mamdani insisted government price controls are the only fix for soaring food prices and corporate &#8220;surveillance pricing.&#8221;
&#8220;No exceptions, no gimmicks,&#8221; Mamdani declared, promising that the city would freeze prices for a core basket of goods month after month.
Outrage over the socialist plan exploded online and across the business community, with experts warning that basic arithmetic is about to crush Big Apple taxpayers.
“This is LITERALLY how you destroy an economy,” <a href="https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/2081820994709418130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2081820994709418130%7Ctwgr%5E361a17a27a55b8e554811ba777e98433f97d7344%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1144953action%3Dedit">warned</a> venture capitalist Shaun Maguire. He cautioned that driving private grocers out of business with government-subsidized stores is the classic blueprint for supply-chain breakdowns and bare shelves. &#8220;This is the story of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Now coming to NYC!&#8221;
CNBC anchor Sara Eisen <a href="https://x.com/saraeisen/status/2081814896065536137?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">added</a>, &#8220;Socialist economics. Grocery stores operate with 1-2% profit margins already so taxpayers will have to subsidize 30% discounts on groceries. It also threatens to shut down local markets and bodegas (and reduce access to food), because they have to compete with the city stores, while also paying commercial rent and earning profits.&#8221;
Hedge fund co-founder Vuk Vukovic <a href="https://x.com/wolf_vukovic/status/2081885930185482314?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">wrote</a>, &#8220;If a grocery store wants to sell food 30% cheaper, one of only four things *must* be true: 1) Its suppliers are accepting 30% lower prices. 2) Its workers are accepting 30% lower wages. 3) Taxpayers are covering the difference through subsidies. 4) The store is operating at a loss, and will soon be out of business.&#8221;
&#8220;Something that people have a very hard time understanding is that prices don&#8217;t disappear. They allocate scarce resources. You can move costs around, hide them, or delay them, but you can&#8217;t make them vanish,&#8221; Vukovic added. &#8220;Having said that, let them do this experiment. They will destroy small grocers and produce food shortages.&#8221;
With grocery stores historically surviving on razor-thin margins of 1% to 3%, analysts pointed out that dropping prices by 30% doesn&#8217;t magically create savings — it just forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for the massive losses.
Joseph Hernandez, a Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller, dismantled Mamdani’s math. With each proposed store estimated to pull in $5.4 million in annual sales, a 30% discount creates a staggering $1.5 million yearly loss per store.
&#8220;Total cost to taxpayers, year one: about $78 million and then a permanent tax year after that, forever,&#8221; Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/hernandezforny/status/2081794071098708019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2081794071098708019%7Ctwgr%5E8c52e082b71167bd3f07507240c38b5e7d3fd836%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1144953action%3Dedit">said</a>. &#8220;And then you compete with private bodegas, small businesses paying full rent and taxes, run on the same razor-thin margins &#8230; This isn’t affordability. It’s a tax hike disguised as a discount and a private business killer.&#8221;
A government-run grocery experiment in Kansas City lost nearly $900,000 in 2024 alone while leaving shelves completely bare.

Mamdani’s Grocery Plan Takes Shape In Economic Policy Shift

Economists Lose Their Minds Over Mamdani Supermarkets: ‘LITERALLY How You Destroy An Economy’

Democratic Socialism

grocery stores

New York City&#8217;s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani doxxed a wide swath of his own constituents — just days after a terrorist attack — by publishing a searchable database of properties impacted by his new &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; tax.
The database, uploaded by the New York City Department of Finance, includes the addresses and names of property owners of homes valued at over one million dollars that the city has determined are not being used as primary residences.
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The city published a list of all properties &#8212; and the names of the owners &#8212; that *could be* subject to the new pied a terre tax in a very easy to search Excel sheet: <a href="https://t.co/d3iAikgERk">https://t.co/d3iAikgERk</a> <a href="https://t.co/cRjMmprBob">https://t.co/cRjMmprBob</a>
— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) <a href="https://x.com/bern_hogan/status/2080781054328062230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani touted his plan to implement the &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; — or &#8220;second home&#8221; tax — in an X post a week earlier, essentially taunting wealthy New Yorkers as he warned them, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got mail.&#8221;
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If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you&#8217;ve got mail.
Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon.
The best…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2080381372510724286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The piece of mail he referenced was the city&#8217;s assessment identifying the property as subject to the new tax — aimed specifically at the wealthy — along with a form to be filled out by the property owners if they met the stipulated qualifications for exemption from the tax.
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New: <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> admin is now sending out letters to homeowners who *may* be subject to “pied a terre” tax — &amp; updated the city’s website including a form for owners/primary residents to contest the tax if they meet exemption qualifications —&gt;<a href="https://t.co/C8zyZupXKa">https://t.co/C8zyZupXKa</a> <a href="https://t.co/aYWqLFh4rZ">pic.twitter.com/aYWqLFh4rZ</a>
— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) <a href="https://x.com/bern_hogan/status/2080287876021948655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani teased the coming wealth tax with a video — in which he vowed to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/escape-from-new-york-mamdanis-cash-cows-already-seeking-greener-pastures">tax the rich</a>&#8221; while standing outside a home owned by billionaire hedge fund manager <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-news/billionaire-ken-griffin-scales-back-nyc-jobs-in-response-to-mamdanis-tax-the-rich-antics-sparking-fears-wealthy-exodus-has-begun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Griffin</a>, majority owner of Citadel LLC.
Mamdani stood in front of Griffin’s Midtown penthouse to tout his plan for a “pied à terre” tax — which would slap additional taxes on second homes valued at over five million dollars — and as The Daily Wire previously reported, Griffin made it clear that he did not appreciate the gesture.
“We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor’s poor decision here with respect to his posting of that video,” Griffin said, calling Mamdani’s video “creepy.”
Indeed, Mamdani&#8217;s move to doxx some of his wealthiest constituents comes just days after an anti-ICE extremist allegedly firebombed 26 Federal Plaza. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-terrorist-meldown-over-ice-is-an-extension-of-mamdanis-mentality">suspect</a> reportedly used a makeshift incendiary device to carry out the attack.

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It sure feels like everything went to hell in a handbasket overnight. Doesn&#8217;t it? 
 
The Democratic Socialists of America, hitting the scene harder than heartburn after a late-night Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme, have just laid their platform bare. And it is truly fascinating how calmly they can unleash a plan that will legitimately gut this country down to the studs.
I wish I were being dramatic.
Abolish the Senate. Abolish the presidency and the Supreme Court. Abolish immigration enforcement, prisons, and eventually police. Open the border. Grant mass amnesty. Defund the Pentagon.
These are just some of the promises of the DSA, <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/2081445353883042279/video/1">delivered</a> on Fox News Sunday by a woman wearing oversized red librarian glasses and a smile. Megan Romer (She/Her), co-chair of the Democratic [Communists] of America, rhapsodically <a href="https://x.com/RedWavePress/status/2081445206239440943">informed</a> a visibly appalled Shannon Bream, true, true, true, right down the list, that yes, those are the goals, and really, it&#8217;s all in service of keeping everybody safe. Naturally, that starts with keeping murderers and rapists out of prison.
I think it&#8217;s safe to call them communists now. They&#8217;d probably welcome the moniker.
For a while, they ran on a very niche, very vibes-based, very cutesy form of governance called Democratic Socialism, in which capitalism gets &#8220;democratized&#8221; so regular people, not corporate CEOs, control the economy and public resources.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just some capitalism-loving socialists who enjoy long walks on the beach and having a good time!
Well, that mask dropped faster than Graham Platner&#8217;s pants around anyone who isn’t his wife.
Now they&#8217;re brandishing the actual plan on national television, no euphemisms left to hide behind, no pretty label, just the thing itself, plainly stated. Their trophy boy, Hasan Piker, trotted out their Marxist machinations at the College Democrats convention this month while dressed, unironically, like Mao Zedong. The murderous dictator.
That was always the play: trip you up with soft verbiage so you never have to reckon with the actual positions. But it doesn’t matter what they call it. Because what they want is not Sweden. They want public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries. A brand-new constitution built around one unicameral legislature. The explicit replacement of the independent presidency and supreme court with an executive and judiciary that only answer to Congress. They want America to be hollowed out from within, like Troy.
This is, structurally, the Bolshevik blueprint from 1917: dissolve the elected assembly, concentrate power in bodies the party controls, nationalize industry, and call the whole thing &#8220;workers&#8217; democracy&#8221; while you&#8217;re doing it. They even talk about abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state the same way early commies dreamed of police, courts, and prisons “withering away” once class conflict disappeared.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t work.
This totalitarian nightmare led to the starvation and murder of millions, but shockingly, the self-pitying Ivy elites who majored in African Art and Gender Studies aren’t hip to the evils of communist history. Or if they are, their relationship to it looks a lot like the one some women have with toxic men. “Worst guy ever, never had a successful relationship in his life, fundamentally flawed and unworkable? I can fix him.”
Their commie commitments don’t stop there. The Marxist mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has been singing this siren song since he landed on America’s shores: rent control, seizing property from landlords, stealing wealth from private citizens. Communist, communist, communist.
And this week, Mamdani announced the city&#8217;s new government-run grocery stores will sell food staples 30% below market price. They also won’t have to pay property taxes or rent. Bye-bye, immigrant-run bodega down the block that pays both!
But surely, nothing else could possibly go wrong here.
It’s not like artificially setting the prices of bread, flour, and meat well below their true production costs (or free-market levels) just to keep voters happy would create excess demand, deplete supply, and eventually produce bread lines and shortages…right?
Quite honestly, I find it revolting that this cadre of basement-dwellers and professional un-success stories would have the gall to roll out such an anti-American platform on the country’s 250th birthday. Our founders didn&#8217;t build this nation two and a half centuries ago for people who wait around to loot what someone else built. They built it for the doers and the risk-takers who invent things and then have the audacity to profit from them.
The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness, not the guarantee of equal outcomes. The Constitution protects private property, limited government, and separation of powers precisely so no group of envious central planners can seize the fruits of your labor and hand them out to whatever mask-wearing collective claims to deserve them more.
Communists are the unproductive, untalented, uncreative losers among us who don’t create wealth, but confiscate it. They don’t invent; they ration. They don’t protect; they abolish the protectors. They don’t build grocery stores that actually feed people; they demand the government force prices below cost and then act shocked when shelves go empty. And they&#8217;ll tell you, straight-faced, that they&#8217;re keeping you safe, all while dressed as the tyrant responsible for the deaths of 40 million of his own people.
Unfortunately, we can&#8217;t deport all of them.
So instead, we have to point out the lunacy of their positions, brush up on our history, and elect people to office who value a strong national defense, strong borders, law and order, free markets, individual liberty, and keeping America great.
We could also try sending Miss Megan Romer on a year-long trip to Cuba and see if she still wants to bring communism to our capitalist frontier when she gets back.

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The DSA Gang Is Cosplaying Mao To Destroy America

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New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled perhaps one of his loftiest promises yet on Monday, vowing that his grocery stores will be 30% cheaper than competitors and will sell apple slices that stop toddler tantrums. 
“The savings will last for the entire month. That means no weekly fluctuations or sticker shock at the checkout line — not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the parents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay,” he said. 
Mamdani <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-unveils-30--discount---including-all-produce--all-">said</a> the stores will have a “core set of goods which will include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese, milk, and bread.” The stores will set prices at the beginning of each month and will not change until the next month. The markets will not sell hot food to avoid competing with local bodegas. 
“Mamdani’s policies — from state run groceries to government-provided babysitting for parents’ night out — perfectly demonstrate how much Leftists want the government to co-parent your kids. Ironically, Mamdani’s obsession with the City parenting your children stems from his own childlessness — and we parents will stick to our own apple slices, thanks,&#8221; Daily Wire host Isabel Brown said.
The first of the five grocery stores, one in each borough of New York City, will open by the end of 2027 in Hunts Point in the Bronx at the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Facility. Mamdani has committed that the other four will be open by the end of his term as mayor. Mamdani predicts that New Yorkers will save $90 a month, which could translate to $1,000 per year. Another store will open in 2029 at La Marqueta in East Harlem, where former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia placed a public retail market 90 years ago. 
The city will own or lease the land at each of the grocery stores and will pay for needed construction or renovations, but a third-party operator will be in charge of running the store. Mamdani’s administration is requesting proposals from third-party operations to run the grocery stores that the mayor says have “no plans to turn a profit.” 
Mamdani has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdani-quotes-ronald-reagan-as-he-rolls-out-socialist-campaign-promise?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zohran+Mamdani+Quotes+Ronald+Reagan+As+He+Rolls+Out+Socialist+Campaign+Promise">argued</a> that the city-owned grocery stores are meant to serve as a proof of concept for a larger government role in providing essential services. While announcing the second location, he pushed back on President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s famous line that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, &#8220;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; Instead, Mamdani said the more frightening words are: &#8220;I worked all day and can&#8217;t feed my family.&#8221;
Critics cite failures of government-run grocery stores in places like Venezuela, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/29/452636462/the-nightmare-of-grocery-shopping-in-venezuela">where</a> stores suffered chronic shortages, empty shelves, spoiled food, and logistical breakdowns.

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A growing grassroots effort led by families of 9/11 victims is demanding that New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani be banned from attending the upcoming 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.
The group pointed to his long record of troubling ties, radical associations, and statements regarding Islamic extremism.
A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/please-sign-to-support-honoring-the-memory-of-those-lost-on-september-11th-with-dignity?recruiter=1421960844&amp;recruited_by_id=0999a100-7bbb-11f1-8944-997c0a94f6b3&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;share_id=kbk5YJfjf">petition</a> posted on Change.org has already garnered more than 5,200 signatures, including over 300 from family members of 9/11 victims. It contends that Mamdani’s presence at the Ground Zero event would be an insult to the memory of the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by al-Qaeda terrorists.
Organizer Giovanni Galante, who lost his 29-year-old wife Grace in the attack, stressed that the silver-anniversary ceremony must remain a sacred space for mourning rather than a platform for figures connected to far-left anti-American rhetoric. &#8220;This day is sacred to us,” he said. &#8220;It is not political, and it is not a platform for those connected to such views. His presence would be deeply hurtful and inappropriate — like an unwelcome guest at a deeply personal ceremony.&#8221;
The petition centers its objection on Mamdani’s public record, citing &#8220;concerns [that] have been raised about Mr. Mamdani’s public positions, associations, and responses to rhetoric that many perceive as hostile to these shared values.&#8221;
Among the key points highlighted in the petition, grieving family members detail a long pattern of radical associations and statements that they say dishonor the victims. The petition notes Mamdani&#8217;s refusal to reject violent anti-Israel incitement, specifically citing a &#8220;perceived reluctance to clearly and unequivocally condemn phrases such as &#8216;globalize the intifada,&#8217; which many interpret as endorsing or normalizing violence.&#8221;
It also notes that Mamdani has openly praised radical Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a figure &#8220;named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing&#8221; who also &#8220;served as a character witness for the &#8216;Blind Sheikh.'&#8221;
The petition points out that Mamdani has previously blamed the U.S. government for radicalizing al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, which critics have slammed as blaming the victim rather than the perpetrators.
In addition,it notes that Mamdani appointed Ramzi Kassem, who previously represented an al-Qaeda operative convicted in a tanker bombing plot, as NYC&#8217;s chief counsel. He has also endorsed figures like Aber Kawas, who dismissed 9/11 as an attack where &#8220;a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,&#8221; and recently campaigned alongside DSA primary winner Darializa Aria Chevalier, who boasted on social media about wiping her hands on the American flag.
The petition highlights that Mamdani’s own father, who shaped his worldview, authored a book after 9/11 arguing suicide bombers should be &#8220;understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism&#8221; — all while drawing a moral equivalence between America and al-Qaeda.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/25/us-news/families-of-9-11-want-to-ban-mamdani-from-25th-anniversary/">reported</a>:
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Organizer Cheri Sparacio, whose 35-year-old husband Thomas was killed on 9/11, quipped there are  “so many other examples” why it would be “disrespectful” for Mamdani to attend the ceremony that “we couldn’t fit them on the list.” They include Mamdani’s longtime association with <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/us-news/the-new-yorker-trashed-for-inviting-hasan-piker-to-speak-at-new-yorker-festival/">vile left-wing influencer Hasan Piker</a>, who once said “America deserved” the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, and Mamdani’s outlandish claim that he and other fellow Muslims were also victims of 9/11 because it supposedly <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/zohran-mamdanis-new-low-pretending-hes-a-victim-of-9-11/">triggered a horrible wave of “Islamophobia,”</a> added Sparacio, of Staten Island.
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&#8220;For 9/11 families, this is not simply a public ceremony — it is a deeply personal day of mourning,&#8221; the petition states. &#8220;The presence of individuals whose words or associations are perceived as conflicting with the solemn purpose of the event risks detracting from that focus and causing additional pain. &#8230; The 25th anniversary should remain centered on remembrance, unity, and an unambiguous rejection of the violence and extremism that defined that day. Ensuring that all participants reflect these principles is essential to preserving the integrity of the commemoration.&#8221;
City Hall signaled that Mamdani has no intention of stepping aside, with a spokesman confirming Mamdani still intends to attend.

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Happy Friday, folks.
Let’s check in on our favorite socialist mayor’s city. Shall we?
In the span of 24 hours, the terror sympathizing, Ugandan native took to X to proclaim that if landlords stepped out of line he&#8217;d seize their property, that his &#8220;talk with the people&#8221; (more like Hugo Chávez&#8217;s rambling Aló, Presidente) is dropping soon, that anyone sitting on a second home worth over five million dollars in New York City should expect a little love letter in the mail about their new pied-a-terre tax, and that HE HAS BEEN BRIEFED on the terror attack on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were stabbed with a screwdriver by a Muslim screaming &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221;
Be careful subscribing to his social media pages. You might get whiplash. Or have a heart attack.
But of course all of this comes as a shock to no one. This is a man who ran for office promising to come for pesky landlords’ buildings and squeeze every last penny from New York&#8217;s most successful residents. He is, by his own design, a communist cosplayer whose favorite new hobby is announcing “he has been briefed.”
The only shocking thing about a shocking week is that we&#8217;ve all stopped being shocked.
He <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLNFpFhBaP/?hl=en">spent</a> time at a a mosque earlier this year that has documented ties to an Iranian-government front, where the imam sang about &#8220;the killing of the infidels by your sword.&#8221; (Infidels, for those keeping score at home, means anyone who isn&#8217;t Muslim. So, most of his subjects.) He says, often and loudly, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, and that he&#8217;ll use his vast and terrifying mayoral power to have him arrested for &#8220;genocidal actions.&#8221; (He has no such power, and appears equally unclear on what &#8220;genocide&#8221; means.) This week he posted a moody little video branding the Jewish state as evil incarnate and urging New Yorkers to use &#8220;every tool they have&#8221; against it. He also declined to condemn the call to &#8220;globalize the intifada,&#8221; a rallying cry for violence against Jews and Israelis.
So no, my jaw did not hit the floor when a man took his wisdom to heart and stabbed a man on his way to synagogue.
Jewish New Yorkers are furious, and rightly frightened. City leaders used a press conference to accuse the mayor of &#8220;fanning the flames of hatred and division.&#8221; Which is exactly what he&#8217;s done. Even Hedge Hero Bill Ackman suggested the mayor take a little field trip to the Holocaust Museum, presumably so someone can finally explain to him what the word he keeps butchering actually means.
The <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2080641750058639606/video/1">NYPD</a> has had it with the smarmball, too. Their relationship soured the moment the internet unearthed a video of Mamdani claiming the department&#8217;s boots are &#8220;laced by the IDF,&#8221; and they&#8217;ve been in full breakup mode ever since. President of the New York City Police Benevolent Association Patrick Hendry warned that the mayor&#8217;s rhetoric is pushing things too far: &#8220;When the mayor of the city is actively calling for demonstrations, violent agitators will assume they have permission to cause as much havoc as possible.&#8221; NYPD Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro put it more bluntly, saying Mamdani &#8220;acts like he&#8217;s leading a protest movement instead of running the largest city in America.&#8221;
Yep. And boy has havoc ensued. Because for the Left, violent protest is encouraged, excused, and practically canonized, so long as it&#8217;s done in the name of the almighty omnicause.
And Zohran, ever the multitasker, tries to hold every banner at once. He&#8217;s pro-trans, throwing pride parties at Town Hall and announcing a $15 million investment in gender-mutilative care (one imagines the imam was thrilled). He&#8217;s pro-&#8220;underprivileged,&#8221; except his rent freeze is quietly crushing the immigrants and working-class renters he claims to champion, who are now staring down record-high payments. He&#8217;s pro-Palestine, a cause whose governing authority executes gay people for the crime of existing, and he&#8217;s decidedly anti-America, a country he insists is starving its children while oligarchs run wild.
He’s doing cartwheels around these ideologies. It’s exhausting to try and follow.
But that&#8217;s who he is, and how he clawed his way to the top. A theater kid turned failed rapper who talked his way into Gracie Mansion and started acting like a warm and fuzzy dictator instead of what he actually is: the overseer of a five-borough sanitation budget.
None of his promises have landed. Bus fares are more expensive. Rents are up, not down; the city isn’t safer, it’s louder. But he will keep pretending to fix these problems after being duly “briefed.”
He’s a walking contradiction in a suit and keffiyeh.
Twenty-five years after this country buried nearly 3,000 people killed in the name of the very rhetoric Mamdani can’t bring himself to condemn, New York elected a mayor who sat through a call to kill the infidels and called it a privilege to be there. History does not usually repeat itself so quickly, or so loudly, but here we are. Ahlan.
Happy Friday, indeed.

NYC Suffers Under Theater Kid Commie Rule And No One Should Be Surprised

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The &#8220;working class&#8221; isn&#8217;t voting for the Democratic Socialists of America. Underpaid, overeducated, and insufferably self-righteous leftists are.
A new <a href="https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-dsa-sweet-spot-highly-educated">report</a> from statistician Nate Silver found that the most reliably Democratic voting bloc in America holds a graduate degree and earns somewhere between $30,000 and $60,000 a year. Wouldn&#8217;t you know it: our favorite little communists, the card-carrying members of the DSA, are overwhelmingly college-educated (80% hold a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher) yet distinctly unprosperous (45% report household incomes under $60,000).
Oopsie. Turns out spending 785 years in school just to crawl out of the halls of the Intifada Ivies with a master&#8217;s in African Art won&#8217;t make you boatloads of money. It will, however, make you an aggrieved, uptight, miserable Marxist, whose life&#8217;s purpose isn&#8217;t reunion with the Lord our Savior, but a tireless personal crusade against procreation, on account of climate change.
Okay, maybe that&#8217;s an overgeneralization. But the foundation holds.
The average master&#8217;s student casting a ballot for socialism has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into a degree they&#8217;re slowly realizing has no value in the real world, or isn&#8217;t needed at all, thanks to our country&#8217;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction">&#8220;elite overproduction&#8221;</a> problem. They are perpetually, seethingly irate that the high school dropout who knows how to drill for oil has landed a far more valuable profession than they have.
This data demolishes the lie these DSA activists are selling: that they represent the working class, the &#8220;little guy.&#8221; We heard it ad nauseam from oyster farmer and self-described bro Graham &#8220;I&#8217;d rape home invaders, but not in a gay way&#8221; Platner, running for Senate in Maine, and from Abdul El-Sayed, terror apologist running for Senate in Michigan. Unsurprisingly and despite their valiant efforts, the nepo baby and the millionaire, respectively, flopped with the voters they claimed to champion. Platner performed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-shows-platners-oyster-farmer-image-failing-win-over-working-class-maine-voters">pitifully</a> among voters without college degrees, and El-Sayed is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/swing-state-poll-spells-trouble-far-left-schumer-backed-candidate-dominates-critical-voting-blocs">floundering</a> with black voters.
So who exactly is the working class? Traditionally, the term meant physical labor and no four-year degree: the blue-collar worker, and now, its pastel-hued cousin, the pink-collar worker: nurses, teachers, and clerical staff.
It turns out that this is the demographic least likely to vote Democrat.
Leftist candidates have tried valiantly to stretch the definition of &#8220;working class&#8221; to fit their own membership rolls: social workers, public sector employees, non-profit staffers. The rest of the DSA&#8217;s ranks are filled out by white-collar professionals, career academics, and the unemployed or disabled. Checks out. You can spot the type just by scanning a DSA meeting. These rooms aren’t overflowing with the builders, the innovators, the creators, or the doers. Rather, they more closely resemble a theater-kid-anonymous meeting: the debt-ridden, the disabled, the desperately overdramatic underemployed, or some combination of all three.
They aren&#8217;t making a lot of cash, and they are furious at the people who are.
Republican voters are seeing the exact opposite scenario unfold. About 60% of voters with a high school education or less, but whose households earned $60,000 or more, preferred Trump to the Democratic field. And no wonder. Electricians and plumbers now pull a median salary north of $62,000, and the construction industry alone needs roughly 349,000 net new workers in 2026 just to keep up. Wages in the trades are <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/ai-skills-randstad-college-trades-jobs-pay-bump.html">climbing</a> faster than the national average, precisely because nobody wants to do the work anymore. So the guy who skipped the seminar on intersectionality to learn how to wire a breaker box is out here making bank, no student loans attached, while his master’s degree-holding classmate is still waiting for the revolution to cover rent.
Across all the data, one thing rings true. If you&#8217;re highly educated yet chronically broke, you&#8217;re likely to describe yourself as &#8220;very liberal.&#8221;
Also, the paler the skin and the more neon the hair, the more likely the &#8220;very liberal&#8221; self-diagnosis. (That last one I made up, but it sounds right.)
And it all makes a certain grim sense. These are people who exit the ivory towers right around the time their hair starts graying, aged out by years of protesting, pronoun-swapping, and experimenting with every imagined sexuality under the sun. They felt more consequential holding a megaphone and chanting numbingly banal slogans through a cloth mask than they ever will at their actual job. So they leave the private sector (extra credit if they never set foot in it to begin with) and either run for office themselves or raise money for their equally bored friends already working in government.
They&#8217;re angry that their matcha costs nine dollars and that it takes an arm and a leg just for a yoga instructor to tell them to &#8220;shavasana&#8221; 40 times in 50 minutes. They&#8217;re angry that the kid they went to high school with owns two houses and has a family of four by 27, because he went into the trades, while they got saddled with gender studies debt. They&#8217;re angry at anyone who became successful, unable to fathom why that person isn&#8217;t losing sleep over the nonexistent genocide in Gaza or the equally nonexistent genocide of trans people down the block.
It comes down to what these voters are prioritizing. They care about the cost of living and making everything free via socialism because they’re strapped for cash and too lazy to change their own situations. They care about &#8220;democracy&#8221; because they&#8217;ve been told Republicans are eating it alive, even as Democrats keep installing candidates in primaries who never earned a single vote and campaign on abolishing the filibuster and the Senate along with it. They care about healthcare and strangling business with regulation because they have nothing else to do but complain and dismantle the capitalist machine that gave them the medicine, the treatment, and the care they&#8217;re currently benefiting from.
High-earning Republicans, meanwhile, generally care about putting food on the table, getting through the workday, and showing up for their community at church, at synagogue, or on the sidelines of their kid&#8217;s rec league soccer game. Then they turn on the news and learn the Socialists want to tax more of their paycheck.
This isn’t new. Every revolutionary movement in history has been built by the entitled, educated, and downwardly mobile, who have both the time and the grievance to spare.
The more productive thing would be for every gender studies major in America to shadow an electrician for a week. Nothing cures elite overproduction and the rise of socialism quite like creating something of actual value to society. Because the reality is, capitalism didn’t fail these overly educated, undercapitalized, insufferable pinkos, their major did.

The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion – Street Sightings

Overeducated, Undercapitalized, And Insufferable: The Left’s MVPs

On Tuesday, comedian Jon Stewart looked into the camera and told everyone not to worry about the Democratic Socialists of America.
“They&#8217;re just a bunch of enthusiastic kids or just gung ho about ‘affordability,’” he argued. Sure, those cute little squirts get a little over-agitated. They start jabbering about communist revolution from time to time. But they&#8217;re really just naive, smart, energetic young people who are concerned about “affordability.”
He is lying to you. The Democratic Socialists of America are winning because they are promoting actual evil. Not winning in spite of evil, but because of it. The support for 9/11, the hatred of free markets, the love of China and the Palestinians; this is who they are. The affordability talk is just cover so that useful idiots like Jon Stewart can pretend that they are not revolutionaries determined to tear down America and the West.
The evil is the actual product the New Democratic Party is being built around. It is the jet fuel, the nuclear reactor of the left-wing machine, and it&#8217;s being driven by a hard core of specific people: Americans with lots of education and no money — overeducated broke people who believe that they are owed everything and have earned nothing.
Stewart isn&#8217;t the only liberal who&#8217;s been making himself into a pretzel and bending into weird contortions in order to avoid this reality: The Democratic Socialists of America are actually evil communists who are using the affordability argument in order to hide their actual agenda.
Barack Obama told Stephen Colbert a few weeks ago:
<blockquote>You look at somebody like Mamdani, who I think is an extraordinary talent. He wants people to be able to afford housing in New York. I would assume liberals in New York want the same thing. And so I don&#8217;t worry as much about some of these issues within the Democratic Party. What I&#8217;m more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we&#8217;re not in a college seminar, right? You know, can you talk plain English to folks?</blockquote>
Colbert replied, “I think that&#8217;s one of the powers that Mamdani has is that not only does he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he also names what is obviously wrong. And he goes, ‘We should change that thing.’”
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Understand that traditional Democrats must say that the “issues” people have with DSA socialists like Mamdani don’t matter. They must say this. Because if they don&#8217;t say this, they&#8217;re approving the evil of the people they&#8217;re actually endorsing.
Zohran Mamdani doesn&#8217;t talk like a regular person. He talks like a dude who just emerged from a Bowdoin seminar on the Middle East. Mamdani is not a man of the people. He is an overeducated broke person who ended up as mayor of New York after a totally unsuccessful rapping career.
But the traditional libs have to pretend this is all some sort of big joke, a giant radical cosplay.  “The real Zohran Mamdani isn&#8217;t radical, he&#8217;s just overenthusiastic. Hasan Piker isn&#8217;t an anti-American piece of trash. He&#8217;s just overzealous.”
That’s because if the traditional Democrats admit the opposite, that the Democratic Socialists of America are actually evil and they are passengers on the same bus, that gets really awkward.
Jon Stewart is a lot of things. I despise Jon Stewart as a personality. I think Jon Stewart has more to do with the devolution of political talk in America than nearly any figure in American history. I truly believe that Jon Stewart&#8217;s reduction of political thought in America to funny faces and clips — as opposed to explication of actual issues — is one of the actions that broke American political commentary.
But you can&#8217;t say that Jon Stewart hates America in the same way that Piker or Mamdani does. Remember, it was Jon Stewart has spent an enormous amount of his career talking about 9/11 first responders and trying to get additional benefits for them. It was a big cause for Stewart; I didn&#8217;t even like how he approached this cause in terms of federalism, but that was indeed a cause of his.
So how does he make common cause with people like Zohran Mamdani or Hasan Piker, a man who says that America deserved 9/11? Piker hasn&#8217;t changed his opinions; on Monday, he hung a picture of 9/11, a newspaper from 9/12/2001, in his studio and bragged about it, but not because it commemorated the tragedy of 9/11.
So how do Democrats deal with the fact that they have a coalition that is now being led by people who truly despise America? How does Jon Stewart, who stood up for American first responders on 9/11, deal with the fact that Hasan Piker is now a leader of his movement, a man who says America deserved 9/11 and has a newspaper from 9/12 behind him?
The only way for Jon Stewart and people like him to live with the obvious conflict,  the cognitive dissonance, is to pretend that Piker is cosplaying and doesn&#8217;t mean it.
But they all do. These are not blue-collar people who are upset about their economic circumstances and thus turning to economic populism.
That is a lie. That is not what they are. In fact, the proletariat in the United States has never been the seedbed of socialist revolution ever. They&#8217;ve never been the seedbed of revolution anywhere. The people who always lead the socialist revolution are overeducated radicals who generally spring from the upper middle class.
But the DSA has a problem. If the DSA is chiefly overeducated, largely white people who don&#8217;t earn a lot of money, if that is the core group, there are not that many overeducated, poor people in America. That is not a great seedbed.
So that means that the DSA has a racial problem. The DSA has a class problem. It turns out that a lot of people who went to high school and do not like socialism aren&#8217;t going to be fond of the DSA.
But if the DSA can smear enough “affordability” over everything, they think they can get away with it.
Republicans are trying to figure out how to counter that. They are making a mistake by taking this argument at face value. They think that in order to counter the DSA, they have to focus specifically and solely on “affordability.”
That&#8217;s not true. Of course people are worried about how much things cost. That is always true, forever and always.
But if you think that “affordability” is driving Republicans down right now, you should know that what is going to allow Republicans to come back is not discussions of “affordability.” It is making sure that people understand the evil of the opposition.
You need to actively make the case as to why the DSA is wrong.
If Republicans wish to win long-term so we don&#8217;t bounce between parties forever, they have to teach an actual understanding of how the economy works; the actual belief in the honesty of the markets, recognition that innovation is good, and the sordid, brutal history of communism and its offspring.
They shouldn’t take the communist, leftist bait.

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