New Yorkers Embrace Their Own Destruction By Voting For Socialist Muslim Mayor

On the surface, it might seem like “wokeness” and the extreme excesses of Left-wing ideology have been defeated, or at least neutralized. But that’s not the case. The most destructive and anti-American impulses of the Left have not been defeated. They haven’t suddenly realized the errors of their ways.

Instead, like a malignant cancer, they have mutated. They’ve identified different ways to undermine the foundations of this country. And in the process, they have become much more dangerous and ultimately much more deadly. That’s not to say that we haven’t had any real victories against wokeness, or leftism, in recent years. We have. But the battle is very, very far from over. Cut off one tentacle of this giant squid-like beast, and it grows another.

That’s the only way to understand what took place yesterday in New York’s mayoral primary. Andrew Cuomo has conceded the race — which means that, barring an upset in the general election from a candidate like Eric Adams, a 33-year-old Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zohran Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of New York City. Yes, a foreign nepo baby and failed rapper who wants to nationalize the grocery stores and the rental properties, while also destroying the police department in the name of “queer liberation,” and forcing taxpayers to fund sex-changes for children, is the man New Yorkers apparently want to put in charge.

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Every aspect of his platform is un-American and demented and totally insane, but it’s worth spending a little time specifically on his brilliant idea to create government-run grocery stores, which we touched on yesterday. We can use just this one example, this one part of his platform, to show how utterly foolish the whole thing is. So, in this country, the typical grocery store has a profit margin of roughly 2 to 3%. They’re not colluding with other stores to extract some insane profits, in violation of antitrust law. Instead, the way grocery stores work is by leveraging economies of scale to generate a lot of very small profits from a lot of individual sales, which add up over time. They’re only functional because they’re efficient, which is the opposite of how the government works. And even then, they’re barely turning a profit on every sale. If you’re some kind of greedy capitalist Gordon Gecko like figure, the grocery business is not the kind of business you’d get into.

So if you want to create government-run grocery stores, then you might as well create government-run restaurants and technology companies and car dealerships, too. You might as well nationalize the entire economy, and turn the United States into Venezuela. After all, of all the things you can nationalize, grocery stores are the most extreme. As usual, radical leftists don’t follow the slippery slope trajectory in a neat and gradual way. The start with the most extreme thing, and work backwards from there.

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If this conversation sounds familiar, it’s because Kamala Harris also ran on the idea of price controls for grocery stores. Which is just socialism, of course. It was rejected by voters in every swing state because it doesn’t work. But it just won in New York, thanks largely to well-off voters who will never need to shop in a government-run grocery store. That’s why the blue-collar workers didn’t vote for this communist. They saw what happened when San Francisco, and Chicago, and every other jurisdiction on the planet voted for people like this. It ends in widespread poverty and destruction, every single time. And that’s what’s going to happen soon in our largest city.

There are broader implications here as well, beyond the disaster that’s about to befall New Yorkers. Whatever happens in the general election, it’s safe to say that, less than 25 years after 9/11, New York has been conquered. All of the trillions of dollars we’ve spent on fighting “the war on terror,” and all of the American lives that have been lost here and abroad, have not prevented an anti-American Muslim from taking control of America’s largest city. We’ve spent the last 25 years bringing “freedom” and “democracy” to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I’m so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why. And keep in mind: this guy is a “legal immigrant.” We allowed him into this country and granted him citizenship, even though he doesn’t share any of our values. That’s how seriously we’ve “protected the homeland” after 9/11. We’ve rolled out the red carpet for foreign nationals who are going to destroy us from within.

If New York City were a country, its GDP would rank it around the 12th largest globally. And now there’s a very, very good chance it’s going to be in the hands of a man who hasn’t even been a citizen for a decade, who fakes his accents, and sees capitalism — the economic engine that has single-handedly prevented this country from becoming another Uganda — as an enemy to be vanquished. This is a man whose own mother has reportedly said: “He is not an American at all.” In that way, he has a lot of company in New York City, where 40% — 40% — of the city’s population wasn’t born in this country.

Hearing all of this, you might say — well, New York has always been a Left-wing cesspool. It’s always been a little dysfunctional. But that’s not true. A few decades ago, only around 20% of the city was born in a foreign country. Now the number is close to double that figure. And what do you know? Hot on the heels of demographic replacement, New York is poised to have a third world mayor. The slogans are true. Demographics are destiny. Import the third world, become the third world. It’s all true. And New York will learn that when they have a mayor who proudly tweeted: “Queer liberation means defund the police.” He also called the NYPD: “racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.” College-educated New Yorkers, as well as foreign nationals, are the reason he won. There’s no debate about that. Here’s one exit poll, to give you an idea:

Wow who could have predicted the poor and working class would see right through this fraud. pic.twitter.com/06rnzjg0fQ

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 25, 2025

As you can see, New Yorkers with the lowest incomes were the ones who rejected Zohran Mamdani. You might think that the poorest voters would support the socialist, but that’s not the case. That’s probably because, unlike college-educated New Yorkers who were taught to despise his country and leech as much as possible, poorer New Yorkers didn’t undergo all of the same brainwashing.

As a result, very soon, New Yorkers will discover that “stop and frisk” wasn’t actually so bad. The alternative is lawlessness and socialism, which will trigger a death spiral in New York. Wealthy New Yorkers, who would be forced to fund all of the social experiments this new mayor wants to undertake, will simply leave. And once that happens, New York will no longer have a GDP that rivals most other countries in the world. We will witness, in real-time, the slow and managed destruction of a world-class city. Another one.

And that’s not something to celebrate, regardless of your politics, as tempting as it may be. I wish that I could just say “good riddance” to all of the major American cities that have fallen into decay and disorder thanks to their awful leaders and the suicidal idiots who elect them. But as an American, I want these cities to be great. They used to be. They could be again. That’s why I have so much contempt for the parasites who’ve destroyed them. Those are American cities. That means they’re our cities, too. And these morons ruined them.

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Suddenly the fall of “Pride month” doesn’t seem quite as significant. The election of a Muslim socialist to be the next mayor of NYC is very clear evidence that “wokeness” and Left-wing ideology is still very much alive in this country. Say what you will about Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous handling of COVID, and all of his weaknesses as a candidate. There’s still no other explanation for what happened last night. This primary demonstrates, once again, that the culture war continues. It just moves to new battlefields. This is how Leftism operates. It shape shifts and rebrands and grows new tentacles. Finds new Trojan Horses. But it’s always the same enemy underneath it all.

And as New Yorkers are about to discover, the enemy is even more potent — and more capable of ruining millions of lives — than it’s ever been. New York, and the entire country, has just suffered a catastrophic blow. And if we’re going to preserve what’s left of America, we have to, as I’ve been saying, return the focus to what’s happening within our own borders.

The invaders are winning. That’s not easy to admit, but it’s true. They are a far greater threat to our sovereignty and our security than any country that’s 6,000 miles away. And unless we want the entire country to suffer the same fate as New York, we have to recognize that fact. We have to treat these foreign socialists like the mortal enemy that they are. After last night, we can either choose to fight, or we can become Uganda.

Voters in New York — many of whom aren’t even American — have just made their choice. Now the rest of us have to stop wasting our time obsessing over whatever’s happening across the globe, and make our choice as clear as we possibly can.