Vol. 41, No. 15
09/01/2025
Marxist Worm in the Big Apple
Ah, the beautiful smile, the easy laugh, the syrupy-smooth speech, the charisma on command, the goal of seizing “the means of production.” As those school exercises went, which of those elements does not belong with the others?
Maybe they all do, as that is the Way of the Demagogue.
We’re talking, of course, about Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a man who “is not an American at all,” as his own mother once put it. “He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian,” she said. He now also can perhaps think of himself as the Big Apple’s next mayor, as he has gone from zero to zealous “socialist” hero almost overnight. An obscure also-ran languishing at one percent in the polls just six months ago, Mamdani surged later in the campaign and, in a triumph that shocked the politi-sphere, trounced erstwhile front-runner Andrew Cuomo by seven points on Election Day (June 24). This was surprising because the most promising poll for Mamdani, conducted on the election’s cusp, showed him only as ranked-choice voting’s rank choice — that he’d win after the eighth round(!) of calculations (don’t ask).
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