Socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stunned the country by winning the Democratic Party primary in its most populous city, and he appears to be a gift straight from heaven for Republicans who want to make Democrats look like insane radicals. I mean, we don’t really need to see much more to draw that conclusion anyhow, but Mamdani is really doing the Lord’s work right now with all of the negative attention he’s pulling.
Michael Whatley, chairman for the Republican National Committee, spoke with Fox News this week saying that Mamdani is “the face of the new Democratic Party.” He then made the case that “everybody who wants to lead that party wants to lead it to the left.”
Democrats do not likely share in the GOP’s enthusiasm for Mamdani.
Check out more on this from Fox:
The victory by Mamdani, who convincingly topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates last month to take a big step toward becoming the city’s first Muslim and first millennial mayor, has put long-standing divisions within the Democratic Party back in the national spotlight. It has reignited ongoing debates within the party between its more moderate and progressive wings, and between outsiders and the establishment, and highlighted the Democrats’ generational divide.
And it’s inflamed the debate over whether the party’s policy or messaging was to blame for last November’s election setbacks, when Democrats lost control of the White House and Senate and failed to win back the House majority, and whether the party needs to veer to the left or the center to escape the political wilderness. Many of those fault lines were rocked earlier this year, as then-Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg sparked a firestorm within over his efforts to back primary challenges against what he called “asleep at the wheel” older, longtime incumbents in safe, blue House districts.
Hogg, 25, a gun-control advocate who survived a Florida school shooting, later resigned from the vice chair position. Soon after, he ran, tail tucked between his legs, from the DNC following the hoopla.
“Democrats continue to have a fissure in their own party, which has been made worse by Mamdani’s candidacy,” Wayne Lesperance, a veteran political scientist who is currently serving as the president of New England College, said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Lauren Hitt, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), along with serving on the Biden-Harris 2024 presidential campaign, also joined a super PAC to give Mamdani a boost. Speaking with Fox, she said that Mamdani winning the New York primary was a “clear rejection of the old guard.”
This means that young up-and-comers in the Democratic Party view those like Cuomo and Biden as not being far enough to the left. Let that hit you full in the thought box for a minute. Young people like AOC and folks like Mamdani are the “MAGA” of the Democratic Party. And that is horrifying.
A similar take was given by Stephanie Taylor, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
“Zohran Mamdani’s likely victory shows that a new direction for the Democratic Party is possible – a future of dynamic candidates who appeal to young voters and working-class voters with a platform that fights for people, not corporations,” Taylor explained in her comment.
“I think there is a definite transition happening in the Democratic Party, perhaps not as quickly as folks would like to see, between the next generation of leaders stepping up,” Democratic strategist Lucas Meyer said, weighing in on the current chaotic state of the left.
Meyer, the former longtime president of the New Hampshire Young Democrats, and founder of the advocacy group 603 Forward, spotlighted that “people are looking for that next generation and I think that’s where the energy resides in the party.”
And pointing to the next White House race, where the very early moves are underway, he added: “I hope this definitely motivates younger candidates to start looking at the presidential race.”
Here’s an example of the kind of gold Mamdani is giving away to Republicans for free:
He’s proposed eliminating fares to ride New York City’s vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free childcare” for children up to age 5 and setting up government-run grocery stores.
Also fueling the Republican attacks are recent news items that have gone viral. They include a 2020 photo Mamdani posted online that shows him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus, stories about comments Mamdani made last December when he said as mayor he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his recent comments in a cable news interview that “I have many critiques of capitalism.”
Americans made it very clear during the 2024 election that they don’t want to buy what the hardcore left is selling. Yet, for some odd reason, radical liberals think the problem is they weren’t far enough to the left. It seems they truly believe socialism — which will mutate into communism over time — is what’s best for America.
That’s dangerous.
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