“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his victory speech.
“I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” — President Ronald Reagan, August 1986.
Two generations after Reagan proved to the world that small-government conservatism can create the most prosperous nation in world history and destroy the Soviet Union, a Marxist socialist radical has been elected to run the financial sector of the once-great United States of America. New Yorkers and Americans need to brace for the impact of what a Mamdani administration can wreak upon us.
First thing: This was inevitable, and is not the fault of Curtis Sliwa. While many would love to scapegoat Sliwa for not dropping out and backing Andrew Cuomo, the Mamdani vote surpassed the Cuomo plus Sliwa vote. Cuomo certainly deserves far more blame for jumping into a primary race and not campaigning, assuming name recognition and an unpopular incumbent were enough, paving the way for a younger, more charismatic force to take over.
Yet even Cuomo can’t be held truly responsible for what is happening, because this has been brewing for over 50 years. If it wasn’t going to be Mamdani, it was going to be somebody. This is what happens when we allow a radical left-wing Marxist ideology to infect our most hallowed institutions. From the moment the education system started tenuring Communist professors to filling our corporations and government bureaucracy with Africana studies majors, we as a society have thrown in the towel. We were living in good times, so we allowed our walls to be infiltrated and our houses to be destroyed from within.
Mamdani ran such a fake campaign promoting false unity and a promise of a better future that even the Washington Post Editorial Board, no bastion of conservative politics, had to call him out for his victory speech. “Zohran Mamdani drops the mask,” screams the headline, with the subheadline saying, “The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.” This has been the left-wing project for 60 years, so it’s nice to see the Washington Post finally catch up.
During his speech, Mamdani demonized the people who make this city run and praised the people who just moved in. This is not surprising, as exit polls show that the longer you lived in New York City, the less likely you were to have voted for Mamdani. Mamdani immediately released videos claiming that he, as mayor, would seize buildings from their rightful owners for the sake of social equity. The rest of the world just calls it theft.
Mamdani did get himself into some hot water with his base of support when he condemned the swastika graffiti that appeared in Brooklyn the morning after his victory. Mamdani, understanding the most basic of political etiquette, condemned the mark. Don’t think, however, that pressure from the Jewish community will prevent him from pushing his more antisemitic policies.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is true in politics as well as in physics. Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of “Within Our Lifetime” and voice of the Jew-hating left, condemned Mamdani when he called the swastika “disgusting and heartbreaking.” Kiswani reacted on X, claiming that swastikas are “often weaponized to justify Zionist narratives and repression of Palestine solidarity” and “Mamdani shouldn’t be validating this framing.” When video of the suspect was released, wearing an obviously fake black hat that no Jew would wear, Jew-haters on the left and right claimed this was a “false flag,” with the mayor-elect nowhere to be seen.
Under Mamdani’s proposed prosecutorial guidelines, this perpetrator wouldn’t be charged if he were caught. Graffiti is a Class A misdemeanor, which Mamdani wants to eradicate. This is not surprising from the man who claimed that “violence is an artificial construction.” So there is no consequence for spray-painting a swastika on a Jewish school in Brooklyn, meaning there is nothing to stop it from happening again.
Even though Kathy Hochul, reading the bad polling after her endorsement of Mamdani, is claiming that his proposals that require state approval will not pass (this includes a corporate tax raise and free buses), there is still plenty of damage Mamdani can wreak on the city. As stated before, he can seize property, thus putting the city on the hook for purchasing, renovating, and renting the property. He can fail to prosecute crime. He can increase costs because he will have to increase property taxes to make up for his lack of revenue for his policies, thus increasing the costs to the consumer. Mamdani is poised to bankrupt New York City.
The best-case scenario is that Mamdani is a complete failure. He’s so inept that he didn’t realize he had to pay to staff his own transition team, leaving him to make an embarrassing video begging for money. It won’t be the last time. He’ll go to the Wall Street hedge fund types quickly enough, begging them to stay and invest in his utopian vision. If they have any dignity, they’ll leave him high and dry and let the socialists try and bail him out. Let’s just hope the citizens of NYC don’t suffer too much in the meantime.
Moshe Hill is a political analyst and columnist. His work can be found at www.aHillwithaView.com and on X at @HillWithView.
