Newsmax’s meltdowns over newly elected New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani continued into December:
- Netanyahu Defies Mayor-Elect, Vows Return to New York
- Hochul Leaves Door Open to Post-Mamdani Win Tax Hikes
- Fmr NYPD Chief Rips Mamdani for Encampment Sweep Halt
- Mamdani Shares How to Obstruct Feds, ICE
- NYC Mayor Adams Dubious of Mamdani ‘Idealism’ on Homeless
- Mamdani Taps Ex-Convict Rapper for Criminal Justice Role
- NYC Mayor Adams Sets Up Roadblock for Mamdani
- Mamdani Defends ICE Rights Video as Noem Pushes Back
- Mamdani Eyes Lawyer Who Defended Terrorist for NYC Role
- ADL: 20% of Mamdani Transition Picks Tied to Anti-Israel Rhetoric
Newsmax columnists also continued their meltdowns as well. George J. Marlin complained in a Dec. 1 column:
Zohran Mamdani’s election night victory speech was the most disdainful I’ve ever heard.
The ever-smiling Dr. Jekyll turned into the vicious Mr. Hyde.
His attitude was, I won and if you don’t like it, tough.
How is that attitude different from that of Donald Trump? Marlin didn’t explain. Instead, he groused some more:
Most troublesome was how he closed his speech, “I am a Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”
To help implement his socialist platform that includes free buses, that will cost $800 million annually; the $8 billion universal childcare plan; the $65 million program to finance hormone therapy for children, and the creation of an office of LGBTQIA+ affairs, Mamdani is appointing or considering a collection of far-left comrades to run his administration.
[…]To finance Mamdani’s socialist plans, and to address the projected $8 billion operating budget deficit, the city’s taxes will have to be raised through the roof.
And if he gets the okay from the state assembly and the governor (which seems likely) to increase the city corporate income tax from 7.25% to 11.55%, the combined state, city, and local corporate surcharges will push the total rate to an astounding 22.5%.
Add that number to the federal government’s 21% corporate tax and it will be “Katie bar the door.”
Captains of the finance and insurance industries will be packing their bags and heading south on I-95.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s decisions and his appointees thus far, indicate he’s positioning his administration to destroy the city’s economic and tax base.
More Newsmax columnists joined in:
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s smile carried him a long way toward being elected. And he used his affability again on Friday, turning the meeting he had requested with President Donald Trump into an Oval Office lovefest.
Now it’s time for the mayor-elect to employ the power of smiling to make day-to-day life better for New Yorkers when they are compelled to interact with city employees.
Mamdani needs to call on the 300,000 city employees to show warmth, respect and courtesy to the public.
[…]Launching a civility campaign and putting some energy behind it could help dispel the skepticism and dread many New Yorkers feel about the incoming Mamdani.
Put that grin to work, Mr. Mayor.
— Betsy McCaughey, Dec. 1 column
Socialists must have goldfish-like memories.
Every few years they dust off the same worn-out ideas, rewrap them in shiny new rhetoric, and insist that this time central planning will finally work.
What they call innovation is almost always a rerun — an old script with a new cast — and voters are asked to forget the disastrous endings that came before.
That pattern is now playing out again in New York City, where voters just elected socialist Zoran Mamdani. He campaigned on affordability but offered the same big-government playbook that has failed everywhere it’s been tried — including the notion that government-run grocery stores will somehow reduce costs for everyday families.
We’ve already seen exactly where that road leads, however, and it never leads to affordability.
The Soviet Union spent seven decades proving that when the state takes over food distribution, the result isn’t fairness — it’s chronic shortages, empty shelves, and black-market prices that punish the poor most of all.
— Travis Korson, Dec. 2 column
Some point out that, in the final analysis, Mamdani has not yet received a clear 50% of the vote. But to focus on this inconvenient truth would miss the point — Mamdani, whether above or below the 50% threshold, had the “magic sauce” to beat all his rivals overwhelmingly when all was said and done.
[…]Mamdani took nothing for granted.
The same cannot be said of Cuomo and Sliwa. Cuomo, the former New York State governor and once a formidable contender, appeared to be coasting on the campaign trail, while Curtis Sliwa ran a poor campaign.
The secret to running a successful campaign is to run as if one is losing and to be passionate about what one is doing. One must be totally involved, and merely “phoning it in” will always prove to be an unsuccessful road to victory.
Mamdani ran a great campaign and that was the reason he won.
And if a candidate does the preceding “actionables,” they will find out that it is always easier when one has marketing in mind.
— John Tantillo, Dec. 2 column
Socialism is absurd.
This disastrous economic philosophy is notorious for its never-ending failures, yet Socialism’s new poster-boy – Zohran Mamdani – was elected Mayor of New York City with one million fifty thousand votes (20% of the voting population), by promising an increased minimum wage, rent freezes, free buses, free childcare and most significantly, “dignity for all.”
[…]Mamdani has never really explained how he will dispense dignity to those deemed lacking it, although based on his campaign promises he expects to buy it with increased taxes on wealthy people.
Socialist policies are based solely on political ideas rather than practical solutions, and lack any actual plans or methodology, so they are rarely successful.
Promising dignity for all is about as feasible as guaranteeing snowfall in the Caribbean, and pledging free buses and childcare is equally absurd.
— Rob Taub, Dec. 5 column