We don’t have to speculate what New York City would look like if Zohran Mamdani were to become its next mayor. He’s just a more extreme version of former Mayor Bill de Blasio. Indeed, de Blasio’s staff is already working for Mamdani. Another good comparison is Portland, Oregon, home to rabid socialists.
De Blasio and Mamdani have a lot in common: they are both Marxist millionaires. When de Blasio was mayor, he said, “our mission is to redistribute the wealth.” In response to critics who warned there isn’t enough money to do what he wants, he said, “There’s plenty of money in the city—it’s just in the wrong hands.” But the rich aren’t stupid: they left in droves, taking their tax base with them.
The New York Times is no longer a liberal newspaper—it’s been in the radical left camp for quite some time. But even it is worried about Mamdani. On the front page of the October 6 edition, there is a news story on how Mamdani-like policies have been tried in Portland. The results are a disaster.
“Portland’s business community is warning that a war on capitalism and an exodus of job creators could send the city spiraling.” The word on the street about the socialist experiment is numbing. “Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster.” The radical policies have yielded “boarded-up storefronts, open-air drug use, homeless encampments and explosive protests.” The Times reporter took a walk downtown and found it “was nearly empty” and “tents dotted the sidewalk.”
Does Mamdani want to destroy New York City? He says he wants to improve it, but his policies, which mimic what de Blasio did and what Portland has done, would do the opposite, and no one would suffer more than minorities (not surprisingly, they voted for Cuomo in the June primary).
White racists would love to keep minorities down, and there is no better way to succeed than by denying them a quality education. White racists would also love to see a crippled police force, ensuring that violent criminals control the streets in minority neighborhoods.
Why has Mamdani adopted the urban policies favored by white racists? Does he hate African Americans and Hispanics that much? Apparently so.
Mamdani did not go to the local public elementary school. He went to the Bank Street School (it costs $66,000 a year today). He also went to one of the most elite public high schools, the Bronx High School of Science. Now he wants to ban all elite schools, citing his interest in “equity education.” De Blasio did the same thing: he sought to ban these schools (Asians stopped him), but not until after his son and daughter graduated from one of these elite institutions.
Mamdani, following de Blasio, is determined to condemn minority students to the worst schools in the city. Black and Hispanic parents want charter schools and school choice, but the former mayor, and the would-be mayor, despise these schools, thus putting them on the side of white racists.
Every survey shows that blacks and Hispanics want more police, not fewer. Mamdani disagrees. That’s because he hates the cops. He says “the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.” Moreover, “there is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt.”
White racists like it when the cops are disabled and criminals run free. What better way to do this than by defunding the police and abolishing the prisons? Mamdani has said exactly that. He has also said he wants the police not to intervene in “domestic violence”—that should be done by others, such as social workers. Good news for wife beaters.
Prostitution and open-air drug markets are destroying a section of Jackson Heights today. No matter, Mamdani wants prostitution legalized and drug havens expanded. If a police officer is found to “disrespect” the rights of hookers and druggers, Mamdani does not want the police commissioner to handle these matters: he wants a Civilian Complaint Review Board—stacked with his anti-cop allies—to adjudicate.
Mamdani’s vision for blacks and Hispanics is not ambiguous. They should not be allowed to escape the worst public schools, and they should also not be allowed to escape living in high crime neighborhoods.
Make no mistake, no Klansman could do a better job of keeping them in their place.
