Zohran Mamdani was expected to win the New York City mayor's race, and he did.
He's young and he speaks well, as opposed to many Democrat candidates who are less appealing. However, one of the other things that made Mamdani appealing to some NYC voters was that he said he would improve things economically. I don't think he will do anything at all to improve anyone's condition. But that's what people want to hear, and some young people, without the historical understanding of why voting for him might be very problematic, were buying it. It's always about the economy.
During his victory speech, Mamdani said things that revealed some of the problems behind his campaign. You knew it would be problematic when he started off referencing Eugene Debs, the famous socialist. Mamdani's speech was about how this was a "working people's movement" and that "they" were grabbing power from the oligarchy and the billionaires. He even talked about people in the movement with "fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns."
Zohran Mamdani, who is definitely not a communist!, starts his victory speech by quoting a communist pic.twitter.com/HTerAjmxnY
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 5, 2025
He went on to talk about workers from many nations who were part of the "movement."
MAMDANI: "I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas!"
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 5, 2025
"Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses!"
"Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties!" pic.twitter.com/0aw4946tH0
"I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas!" "Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses!" "Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties!"
So many things to unpack there.
First, of course, he groups people into identity boxes because that's what leftists do. Notice what nationality is missing there? American, you know, the thing that supposedly is uniting them, if they can vote.
Second, Mamdani is talking about a "workers' movement." However, he was a well-off kid; he was never part of the working class. His father was an academic, his mother was a filmmaker. His hands were never calloused; he got to play at being a rapper.
While certainly some working people voted for Mamdani, greater impetus came from the college-educated lefties, that was the larger part of his voters. The non-degreed New Yorkers tried to lead people the other way.
In New York, the non-degreed tried valiantly to save the city from the degree-holding horde. There just weren't enough of them. From exit polls: pic.twitter.com/tdF3zfVZ5V
— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 5, 2025
Indeed, if you looked at who voted for him and who went the other way, it was the native New Yorkers, the folks who know the city, who didn't want him. It was the people new to New York who fell for what he was selling.
Native New Yorkers largely rejected Mamdani, while those who had lived in the city for less than five years voted for him in overwhelming numbers. pic.twitter.com/8bU6UW1Vsa
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 5, 2025
Mamdani talked about the workers and the "movement" beating the oligarchy and the billionaires.
Yet, let's look at who was behind him: Alex Soros, George Soros' son. "So proud to be a New Yorker," Alex posted after Mamdani's win. "The American dream continues!"
So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) November 5, 2025
Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani 🇺🇸🗽🌊 pic.twitter.com/nvR5Zb46TI
So I'm confused. How is this fighting the oligarchy and taking things back from the billionaires? Mamdani is playing the part of the outsider, while being backed by the Democrat powerbroker Soros family.
Moreover, Mamdani was endorsed by the head of the DNC, Ken Martin, and, although it didn't come for a while, also by Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), trying to make it about "affordability."
Translation: Mamdani is a phony. Because ultimately it really isn't about the workers or defeating the oligarchy, or any of those things they like to throw out there to pitch division to get you to vote for them. It is always and only about driving things further left. They're just going to sell it to you under the cloak of "affordability," when it wouldn't be "affordable" or advisable at all.
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New York Will Learn of the Greatest of All Tyrannies
And what's going on here is the capture of the Democrat Party.
This is the ending of Animal Farm.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) November 5, 2025
The very ending.
Read it while you still can and you'll know what I mean. https://t.co/aXz7hSO5PO
