Stay Frosty, Folks—NYC Election Results Prove That the Marxists Are Still in the Building

I couldn’t watch the news for a month, I was so deflated (I wasn’t writing at RedState at the time). And even though I knew a Joe Biden presidency was not going to be good for the country, I was still flabbergasted by how hard left he veered and what a truly awful, destructive, divisive commander in chief he turned out to be. I knew it was going to be bad—just not that bad.

Four years later, my heart was as full as it’s ever been as the American people said “enough is enough,” and dumped the extremist Biden and his disturbed vision for our great republic, along with his incompetent replacement, Kamala Harris.

Total Repudiation. Oh, What a Beautiful Feeling! (VIP)

Yes, it’s been a heart-swelling 2025, and the GOP controls the Oval Office, the House of Representatives and the Senate. If you’d told me that back in 2021, as Trump hatred flourished and the corrupt mainstream media worked in lockstep with the DNC to convince voters that the Republican party was a “threat to Democracy,” I would have sadly admitted, I don’t think that’s going to happen.

But it did happen, and it’s been a beautiful thing to behold.

I regret to inform you, however, that there’s still danger ahead, Will Robinson. The fight is far from over, and the Democrat primary results in the race for New York City mayor prove just that. Hundreds of thousands of voters turned out to support radical leftist socialist Zohran Mamdani Tuesday, and it appears that he has won the contest and defeated former (disgraced) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. While Cuomo has more problems than Jay-Z, he’s still not as loony as this guy. Mamdani makes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) look like a moderate.

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While his bid to become mayor is far from assured—he will still face recently turned independent incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and a possible independent run by Cuomo—he’s nevertheless in a pretty good spot. Merely having a “D” by his name assures Mamdani many, many votes.

But could he be so dangerous? Well, yes, actually. He wants to create a socialist utopia, and as we’ve seen throughout history, that always ends badly:

Mamdani’s campaign is almost singularly focused on the promise to lower the cost of living in New York. He wants to freeze rents in the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments—roughly 45 percent of all rentals. He aims to make child care and buses free and promises to open government-run grocery stores. He also says he will build lots of public housing.

The problem? His vision would cost a lot of money—a whole lot of money:

Mamdani’s plans for large-scale public housing would cost $100 billion—about the size of the city’s annual budget—and require more than doubling the debt limit. Developers have openly called the plan an “unmitigated disaster” that makes zero financial sense. His proposals for a Comprehensive City plan and zoning changes could theoretically lead to more housing—if they weren’t burdened with restrictions on market-rate construction.

His other proposals aren’t free, either. Mamdani would likely need to find a lot more than the $5 billion he has estimated for free child care, and close to another billion dollars to pay for free buses each year.

The list goes on; that’s just a sample of his far-left plans. Oh yeah, and he wants to "globalize the intifada":

Zohran Mamdani believes we must "globalize the intifada."

This is what it looked like the last time an intifada came to New York City.

WE WILL FIGHT BACK! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/znEELOX0Ps

— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) June 25, 2025

We’re at a turning point in our country, where businesses and residents are fleeing Gavin Newsom’s California, JB Pritzker’s Illinois, and other blue locales that have experimented with the socialist vision and failed badly. A zealot like Mamdani is exactly what New York City doesn’t need, but it’s what all too many of its residents are voting for.

Let’s hope they’re belatedly waking up to what could be in store for them:

People in New York started Googling what Socialism was after the polls closed

Lol. Lmao even. pic.twitter.com/xqyerSgUhD

— Inverse Cramer (@CramerTracker) June 25, 2025

Zohran Mamdani is too extreme for a city already on edge. I know many New Yorkers are scared right now. Scared about rent. Scared about crime. Scared about being pushed out of the only place they have ever called home.

This is not the time for radical politics. It is time for… pic.twitter.com/hOvdg9wqUT

— Curtis Sliwa (@CurtisSliwa) June 25, 2025

This is not the time for radical politics. It is time for real leadership.

Although conservatives are sitting in the wining circle at the moment, the fight for the soul of America is far from over. This election result proves that the Marxists have not been defeated and are just waiting for their comeback. We must use every tool at our disposal to fight them.

Stay frosty, my friends.