Tuesday wasn't the best day the Republican Party ever experienced. They lost key races in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City, and the passage of Proposition 50 in California means that the once-Golden State will be gerrymandered to a fare-thee-well, and California's Republican congressional delegation will be pretty much extinct.
None of these were surprises. This wasn't even a mid-term election, and these are all blue states. It wasn't great, but neither was it a surprise.
But one of the more concerning results was the election of the "Democrat socialist" - read that as "communist" - Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. Again, not a surprise. But get a load of this snippet from his victory address, which says more about him than all of the rest of his speech combined:
We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.
Wow. Just... wow.
Consider all of the implications of that line. Consider what he means by this.
First, on the "no problem too large" side: This is a promise for an all-encompassing, all-powerful government, capable of anything. In 1974, speaking to Congress, then-President Gerald Ford observed, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Zohran Mamdani's statement proposes just this kind of government. Now, the mayor even of a city the size of New York cannot build such a government while the residents of the city still enjoy the protections of state laws (in New York, mind you, that may be less than comforting) and the Constitution. But this is and always has been the goal.
Second, on the "no concern too small" side: This is a recipe for the government being involved in every aspect of your life, every decision, every economic transaction, everything. And who is to decide what problems are to be solved? Who is to decide which people's problems are higher priority, and which, lower? Who is to decide that someone might have a problem, say, an unacceptable political opinion, that the person in question does not see as a problem at all?
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This is one of the most horrifying political statements I've ever seen issue forth from an elected politician in all the years I've been paying attention to politics, and I have been doing that since the Carter administration.
But here's the concerning bit: If you've been paying attention to the left for the past few years, to the ravings of people like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who supported Mamdani, you'll know that Mayor-elect (shudder) Mamdani was just saying the quiet part out loud. He is stating openly what the left has hinted at for years: They want full government control over what you do, what you say, where you live, where you work, what you are allowed to eat, buy; every aspect of your life, under the scrutiny of government apparatchiks. It's been tried before, and it's failed before. When we point this out to the left, the answer is always some variation on "that wasn't real socialism," or "we know better than them, we'll get it right this time."
They won't get it right this time. The productive will leave. The City that Never Sleeps will be left with a few wealthy elites, with offshore bank accounts and dachas in Connecticut. The city will be left with a restive dependency class who will, sooner or later, find themselves standing in line for the potato ration - because that's the only possible end for Mamdani's "city-run grocery" idea. And people are about to get a staggering look at what happens when a government is big enough to solve any problem and care about every concern.
This was always the plan. Now, we watch as it unfolds.
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