WorldNetDaily, as expected from a ConWeb outlet, continued to have meltdowns about New Yrk City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Elizabeth Farah’s July 3 podcast interviewed foreigner Trevor Loudon and featured this wildly alarmist tease:
This explosive interview with Trevor Loudon, author of Stealth and Comrade, and Elizabeth Farah exposes the hard truth about Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York City politics. Trevor delivers raw, relentless facts about Mamdani’s deep-rooted connections to extremist Marxist and Islamist forces, revealing an organized campaign to infiltrate city leadership and unleash chaos from the top down. As foreign actors celebrate and media giants bury the story, Elizabeth and Trevor lay out the full scale of the threat: Mamdani’s agenda is a loaded weapon aimed at America’s core, and ignoring it could mean disaster for every city and every citizen who values freedom.
WND’s columnists melted down as well. For instance:
Like an act at a carnival freak show, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, is both fascinating and nauseating.
The devastation he would unleash if he’s elected to run the largest city in America and the nation’s financial hub is almost unimaginable.
Mr. Mamdani is a symptom of a contagion that’s afflicted the West for more than two centuries. The paradox of socialism is that it keeps winning followers in each generation as its failures become more manifest. It’s snake oil in a glitzy bottle that never loses its appeal for the credulous.
[…]It’s all too easy to dismiss Comrade Mamdani as crazy. Craziness like his fills mass graves.
Given the role New York City played in the development of capitalism, somewhere in hell, Karl Marx is laughing.
— Don Feder, July 8 column
The Ugandan-born Shiite Muslim Mamdani is a democratic socialist, but he is better understood as a full-fledged communist. That isn’t hyperbole: One merely needs to consider his proposed policies for New York City and review his broader history of extreme far-left political rhetoric. Mamdani won the primary, and is now seeking the mayor’s office, on a genuinely radical platform: support for citywide “free” bus rides, city-owned grocery stores, a full rent freeze on certain low-income units, outright seizure of private property from arbitrarily “bad” landlords, race-based taxation (an assuredly unconstitutional proposal), a $30 minimum wage and more. A true Marxist, Mamdani has called for the “abolition of private property.” And he has something of a penchant for quoting Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” too.
But Mamdani’s communism is only part of his overall political persona. He also emphasizes, and trades in, exactly the sort of woke culture warring and intersectional identity politics that have defined the post-Obama Democratic Party. Mamdani is a longstanding harsh critic of Israel who has long trafficked in, and had long refused to distance himself from, antisemitic rhetoric such as calls to “globalize the intifada.” Most recently, he also opposed Trump’s decision to have the U.S. intervene in last month’s Israel-Iran war, condemning it as a “new, dark chapter” that could “plunge the world deeper into chaos.” (In the real world, there were zero American casualties, and the bombing run was followed promptly by a ceasefire.) In many ways, Mamdani singlehandedly encapsulates the unholy “red-green” alliance of Marxism and Islamism.
There is, to be sure, nothing good down this road for denizens of New York City. If Mamdani wins this fall, expect a massive exodus of people, businesses and capital from the Big Apple – probably to the Sun Belt. But even more relevant: There is nothing good down that road for the national Democratic Party as a whole. In order to demonstrate that the party has learned anything from its 2024 shellacking and its current abysmal standing, it will have to sound and act less crazy on the tangible issues that affect Americans’ day-to-day lives.
— Josh Hammer, July 19 column
For the Democrat hard left, the good news is that Zohran Mamdani, a self-described “Democratic socialist” with a long history of what many consider antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. The bad news for the Democratic left is that he will likely win.
— Larry Elder, Sept. 11 column
The oily Mr. Mamdani, with his tiger’s smile, offers free everything, higher taxes on the already overtaxed rich, and more coddling of criminals.
If you have money to invest, buy commercial real estate in Miami, destined to be the next financial capital of the United States.
[…]Mr. Mamdani promises 200,000 more “affordable housing” units, free transportation, municipal supermarkets, the replacement of some cops with social workers, and $100 million to pay for attorneys for illegal aliens facing deportation. He is just getting warmed up.
Boys and girls together, Mr. Mamdani and Karl Marx tripped the light dialectical materialism on the sidewalks of New York.
[…]It’s five weeks until the New York mayoral election. Will there be an October surprise? Is there any revelation that could stop Mr. Mamdani? Did he marry his sister (no big deal in Uganda)?
— Don Feder, Oct. 7 column