We come down on Zohran Mamdani a lot, but in truth, he's not the disease, he's a symptom of one.
The man who is most likely to become New York's next mayor isn't anything special, despite the constant coverage and consistent fawning over him by leftists. As I wrote on Tuesday, Mamdani is actually just your typical champagne socialist. He passes himself off as a revolutionary with grand ideas that could improve the United States, but behind the curtain, you see another radical leftist who got his ideals second-hand and, in his heart of hearts, doesn't believe anything he actually professes to.
America is filthy with these people, and each one of them is more ridiculous than the next.
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So if Mamdani is just another case of societal warts, what's the herpes virus causing them?
Vice-President J.D. Vance actually highlighted the issue well during an event hosted by the Claremont Institute, where Vance was receiving a Statesmanship Award. It's here that he pointed out that Mamdani is just the recipient of elitist favor from well-to-do youngsters.
"If our victory, if President Trump's victory in 2024 was rooted in a broad working and middle class coalition, Mamdani’s coalition is almost the inverse of that," said Vance. "If you look at his electoral performance precinct by precinct, what you see is a left that has completely left behind the broad middle of the United States of America."
"This is a guy who won high-income and college educated New Yorkers and especially both young highly educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree. That's an interesting coalition."
"His victory," he later added, "was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren't really delivering what they expected. And so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents.
Vance would go onto point out that Mamdani is entirely contradictory in his beliefs. He claims to be wholly connected to the Third World, specifically with Islamist countries and radical Islamist causes, but also claims to believe in Western leftist causes that run in direct opposition to those Islamic beliefs.
"And that's why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the left," Vance said. "He captures so many of the movement's apparent contradictions in a single human being. A guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity, yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors."
"These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza," he continued. "This guy represents that contradiction. How can you believe in the cause of the intifada while also holding views that are completely anathema to those people? And the answer is because he's not building a positive program. He's not trying to build prosperity. He's trying to tear something down. And he's very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-left hates in modern America."
VP @JDVance tears into the @ZohranKMamdani contradictions: "His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren't really delivering what they expected." pic.twitter.com/4N87mPq5v5
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 8, 2025
The key phrase here is that he's trying to tear something down, which is the end-game of many University elitists who've brainwashed themselves into thinking the privilege that gave them their advantages is somehow shameful, and thus needs to be rejected and torn down... or at least that's what they should profess outwardly.
They would never truly give up their advantages. They would never lower themselves to the level of the people they claim to fight for.
Mamdani will never put himself into a position where he's not wealthy and powerful, just like all the other champagne socialists who let their schooling get in the way of their education. With New York being such a hive of this kind of mentality, Mamdani becomes a shoo-in that allows these elite to feel like they're really doing something good for society.
In short, our centers of higher-education are making wealthy youngsters really, really stupid. That is the disease.
They get to partake in their luxury beliefs — that Western systems are evil, that Communism has merit, that Third World countries are just and moral, and that more government is necessary to achieve Utopia.
And while they get to believe these ideas in comfort, the people truly affected by them negatively are the ones they claim to be fighting for. It's ignorance and self-loathing dressed as moral grandstanding.
