In New York City, the leading candidate for Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is a socialist who has called for defunding the police and the disbanding of the Strategic Response Group, a crime fighting unit in Gotham.
He’s repeatedly labeled the New York Police Department “wicked and corrupt” as well as “racist” and has advocated the reallocation of resources from the police toward social services.
These days, Democrats are unrealistic about their party’s platform and leadership.
— Jeff Crouere, Aug. 7 Newsmax column
It’s not Zohran Mamdani himself who scares me so much it’s the people supporting him who scare me even more.
The rapid and popular rise of this smooth talking, relative newcomer, anti-almost everything America is simply incomprehensible.
The more I speak to people, the more I hear that more and more New Yorkers — and even “out-of-towners,” support Mamdani.
[…]There is one qualification I must point out.
Of the amazingly large number of Jews looking forward to a city run by Mayor Mamdani, not one of them is an Orthodox Jew. This is not merely my personal, ad hoc, observation.
And while I have not found Orthodox Jews who support him, neither have the polls.
[…]Mamdani’s message is everywhere on new media, on social media, where young, potential voters, get their information. On such media, his message is practically unchallenged.
If his message continues to go unchallenged and if young people actually do buck history and go out and vote, then Mamdani secures a landslide victory.
Democracy is a stable conservative movement — it does not marry well with temporary fads. It adjusts and changes slowly to avoid huge revolutions.
But today’s voting public — especially youth, demand immediate change.
That’s what makes Mamdani so enticing and so popular.
That’s the fight we need to wage — and wage quickly.
If this can happen in New York City, it can happen anywhere.
Time is running out.
— Micah Halpern, Aug. 13 Newsmax column
At this critical juncture, it is incumbent upon sane Democrats to vociferously oppose Mamdani and his cockeyed socialist platitudes.
If they fail to stop him in November, they will be responsible for his socialist virus infecting New York City and spreading across the nation, leaving in its tracks, fiscal, economic, and social carnage.
— George J. Marlin, Aug. 14 Newsmax column
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani promised that if elected, he would establish five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, to provide low-cost food items for New Yorkers.
But the experience of a city-owned grocery in Kansas City. Missouri should offer proof to the self-avowed socialist that such a venture, along with socialism in general, is a totally unworkable solution to a problem that doesn’t even exist.
[…]If and when Mamdani’s New York City grocery chain is established, it will fail for the same reason the Kansas City grocery failed — no one has a personal financial stake in the success or failure of the operation.
And that’s why capitalism succeeds where socialism fails.
— Michael Dorstewitz, Aug.15 Newsmax column
Good grief. The Mayoral race in New York City isn’t even until later this year, and Zohran Mamdani continues to make a case as to why he’s the worst possible candidate for it.
[…]Mamdani, let me make a few things clear to you on this.
Number one, your stance is already one which may cause many to see you as anti-police.
You can talk until you’re blue in the face, in to try and convince us otherwise, but many officers are leaving the NYPD because politicians like you simply don’t value them.
And if you do end up sworn into office for New York City Mayor, things will get worse.
That’s a promise.
[…]I hope more people are seeing what kind of candidate Mamdani is, and the lies he’s spewing for the sake of his own political agenda.
I hope that has an effect on his run in office and we get a good, strong Republican who will take care of our police and continue pushing for a better way of life.
— Michael Letts, Aug. 22 Newsmax column
(Yes, the guy who’s facing criminal charges for sexual misconduct is critiquing Mamadani’s optics.)