Newsmax columnists continued their meltdowns over New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Betsy McCaughey freaked in a July 12 column:
A Mayor Mamdani will either raise New York’s already high taxes to pay for all these goodies, or his reckless spending will plunge the city into fiscal chaos, leading to draconian austerity measures like cuts to police and garbage collection.
Disastrous either way.
Aren’t there legal guardrails to limit what an irresponsible New York City mayor — even a crazed socialist one — can do?
[…]If you live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, get ready to be socked with higher taxes — and possibly see your home’s resale value drop as a result.
In a one-party city and a nearly one-party state, there are few safeguards against the maniacal vision of Mamdani.
We have just one defense: electing someone else.
Rob Taub spent a July 15 column raging that young voters – who live “coddled lifestyles” and “enjoy a world of largesse given to them by their parents along with a level of ease provided by innovative technology that helps manage their lives” — support Mamdani:
Currently, we have a socialist New York City Mayoral candidate. He’s 33-years-old and is selling everything “free” — along with hatred and division — to this utterly bewildered group. But what’s even more disturbing is they’re buying it.
Those not too long ago would have been a laughed at as “fringe” candidates, are now viable contenders for mayor of the greatest city in the world.
This means, this youthful group of voters can have a devastating impact on the future of our world.
Taub then condescendingly lectured these young people who fail to be as right-wing as he is:
None of your problems exist because someone else is a billionaire. Left-wing politicians have made “free” the most expensive word in the English language, so taxing a city or state — let alone our country — into prosperity is impossible.
Use some of the time you spend on social media to study history.
Read biographies of successful people, even if they’re no longer alive.
Instead of watching videos about the lifestyles of today’s billionaires, learn about how they built their businesses, and seek your own success.
You may actually enjoy the process.
Duvi Honig grumbled in a July 18 column:
It’s one of the great ironies of our time — and one of the most disturbing.
Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assemblyman who won the Democratic Nomination to Run for mayor of New York City, whose family fled Uganda under the tyrannical rule of Idi Amin, has now emerged as one of the loudest voices trying to destroy everything America and New York City stands.
He has defended Hamas and attacked Israel.
His political stance isn’t just hypocritical — it’s dangerous, dishonest, and an insult to every New York City resident suffering, post Sept. 11, 2001 and Oct 7, 2023 – as a result of unbridled terrorism.
[…]Mamdani, now running for Mayor of New York City, as a Democrat, has seemingly made it his mission to attack American values.
He’s traded in the identity of a grateful refugee for that of a radical ideologue.
President Donald Trump is correct in calling him out as a Communist, one bringing a dangerous drift to New York City’s leadership.
A slide toward socialism, radicalism, and sympathy for terrorist causes.
Rather than embracing the freedoms he was gifted, he is attempting to rewrite them into a manifesto of extremism. We must not allow our generosity to become our Achilles’ heel.
Partha Chakraborty melted down over Mamdani’s proposal to open city-owned grocery stores in a July 24 column:
Small grocery stores in the city are primarily run by immigrants, a stepping stone in their American dream. They do have to pay rent and property taxes, and muddle through city bureaucracy making them vulnerable to government overreach.
At the very least, Mamdani is penalizing aspiring newcomers that New York City has beckoned for centuries.
Whenever used in the U.S., state-run grocery stores were a cesspool of mismanagement.
Chakraborty further raged:
Mamdani’s proposal for free public buses is a public safety threat.
Public transport system in the city is so deep in the hole that free rides would not make city coffers much lighter.
That said, now police officers have a valid reason to ask vagrants to leave if caught free-tripping. Under Mamdani’s proposal vagrants, drug users, and the homeless will have free reign of city transport.
At risk are schoolchildren and the elderly, among others.
[…]As someone born and brought up on the wrong side of the tracks, I can do without anyone who claims to care for me in any way other than making it easier to pursue my dreams.
Sensible New Yorkers should feel the sameway.
This madness of a gilded rage in New York City must stop.
Chakraborty’s column concluded with this weird warning: “All opinions are of the Author alone, and do not necessarily represent that of any organization he may be part of. The author alone is responsible for any error or omission.”
George J. Marlin had his own entry for the meltdown pile in an Aug. 4 column:
Since winning New York City’s Democratic primary in June, Zohran Mamdani has been attempting to walk back many of his far-left public comments.
But no matter how hard he tries, his words will always haunt him for the simple reason that once a Marxist, always a Marxist.
Because Marxists, like Mamdani, mistakenly believe that their economic and social pronouncements are historically determined to unfold in time, they will never truly abandon their ideological tenets.
[…]While “The Quotable Mamdani” is only a sampling of the musings of the mayoral candidate — they should be enough fodder to make any reasonable voter to think twice before pulling the lever for him on Election Day, November 2025.
Newsmax’s Mamdani meltdowns seem to be just as quotable.