Newsmax called on its favorite former New York City mayor to smear the current mayor in a July 3 TV appearance:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax on Friday that America’s 250th anniversary should be a weekend of “unabashed patriotism.”
He warned that a rising democratic socialist movement he sees spreading, and a major-party base no longer proud of the country, represent a division “from within” unlike anything the nation has faced.
He tied his warning directly to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialists of America member sworn in Jan. 1 whose election Republicans have made a central talking point ahead of the semiquincentennial.
Giuliani appeared on “Finnerty” as the country entered its Fourth of July weekend, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
[…]Pressed by host Rob Finnerty on New York’s political shift, Giuliani said the city he ran from 1994 to 2001 is unrecognizable under Mamdani, who was sworn in as the 112th mayor and openly identifies as a democratic socialist.
Finnerty told Giuliani, “We have a communist mayor in New York City.”
Jim Thomas followed in a July 5 article detailing another Mamdani meltdown:
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned Sunday that a wave of democratic socialist candidates echoing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani poses a threat to American governance, amplifying President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July attack on the socialist movement as the two parties turn toward the 2026 midterms.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, Johnson said Mamdani-aligned candidates are surfacing in Democratic primaries nationwide and that voters should take the trend seriously.
He described democratic socialism as “a serious threat to our whole system of government,” casting the movement as a fundamental challenge to American political tradition rather than a routine ideological drift within the opposition party.
Another right-winger had another meltdown the same day:
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt sharply criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Independence Day address, accusing the Democrat mayor of promoting a “communist” view of American history after Mamdani urged Americans to acknowledge the nation’s shortcomings while celebrating its 250th anniversary, the Washington Examiner reported on Sunday.
Speaking over the weekend from the Governor’s Room at New York City Hall, Mamdani said the United States remains exceptional because it allows for change and continual self-improvement.
“Our nation marks 250 years since we declared our independence,” Mamdani said. “America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed in place.”
Mamdani argued that patriotism requires confronting the country’s failures as well as its achievements, while framing New York City’s immigrant history as central to the nation’s identity.
Pratt, responding in an Instagram post, denounced the speech and criticized Mamdani for delivering the address from George Washington’s ceremonial desk at City Hall.
“We all had to sit and watch that vile commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our Founding Fathers’ desk to try and lecture us about our own history,” Pratt wrote.
[…]Pratt rejected Mamdani’s characterization of American history as one that requires greater emphasis on its shortcomings, arguing instead that patriotism should center on national pride.
“It’s OK to love America; not only is it OK, it’s necessary,” Pratt said.
George J. Marlin — he of the many Mamdani meltdowns — devoted his May 6 column to having another one, this time over Mamdani’s speech:
In addition to highlighting the nation’s faults, he made the ludicrous claim that America is a country “where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”
What Mamdani fails to grasp, is that the U.S. was founded on the belief that the “laws of nature and nature’s God make men equal.”
For the Founders, man is equal in the eyes of God, equal before the law, and entitled to equal opportunities to pursue his road to happiness, making the most of himself.
Therefore, the task of the national government is to protect self-evident truths not by imposing abstract schemes on society but by representing it.
For a radical like New York’s mayor, liberty to pursue happiness and property contradicts equality.
Zohran Mamdani’s brand of equality has no interest in economic growth or rewarding talent in industriousness.
He rejects competitive individualism that stresses differences in favor of egalitarian collectivism that eliminates differences.
[…]Mamdani also has a warped definition of American exceptionalism.
For him it means “nothing is fixed in place.”
There are indeed things fixed in place. They are the basic liberties described in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution.
America is exceptional because it was founded on a creed, not on blood or soil.
Marlin closed by quoting a book by “the distinguished British historian, Paul Johnson.” He didn’t explain why he didn’t quote an American historian to make the same point.