Public safety will undoubtedly be weakened in an already dangerous city, considering that Mamdani showed unrestrained contempt for law enforcement in 2020, when he supported defunding the police, who he described as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.” While he has since apologized, just like Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones did regarding his death wish for the whole family of a political enemy, everyone knows what both men believe in their hearts.
But perhaps the most chilling of all is the specter of a Muslim fundamentalist mayor in the city with the largest Jewish population in the country. Though he has recently tried to backtrack or explain away his history of antisemitism, he long refused to distance himself from the movement to “globalize the Intifada” aimed at slaughtering Jews across the globe. He has promised to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in New York, citing the arrest warrants issued by the palpably anti-American and anti-Israeli International Criminal Court (ICC), which has no jurisdiction in the US. Nevertheless, incredibly, while select conservative Jewish congregations have raised red flags, there has not been any organized resistance to Mamdani in the city’s Jewish community at large.
Zohran Mamdani, in Way Over His Head
This man, who once spoke in pure socialist terms by calling for the government to “seize the means of production,” has never held a real job other than as a back-bench assemblyman and has zero executive experience. And yet, he will be in charge of the nation’s largest police force, largest public school system, and a public workforce of 306,000 people. Even many Democrats are skeptical, to say the least, as the party remains agonizingly divided about the prospect of a full-on socialist running the great city. Progressives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have enthusiastically endorsed Mamdani, as has New York Governor Kathy Hochul. But the state’s Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs has publicly refused to endorse, while leading Democrats in Congress, most prominently Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his counterpart in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, both from New York, have dodged the rock-and-hard-place issue, knowing they are damned if they endorse Mamdani and damned if they don’t.
“This is someone who is just a facade,” Bob Holden, a Democratic city council member, told Politico. “He’s fooling people. It’s not surprising because the Democratic Party has been going to the left for some time. It could be the tip of the iceberg and it’s going to get worse.” Democratic state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, who represents an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, admitted to Mamdani’s charm and effectiveness at retail politics, but fears his appointments: “One on one, he’s easy to personally speak with, even for someone like me — he and I agree on nearly nothing … My concern won’t be him, but that his administration will be filled with the most rabid people who are on the A) political left and B) antisemites.”
So, in summary, what could go wrong if Mamdani becomes the next mayor of New York City? The answer: almost everything. Once Mamdani receives a mandate from the voters, a significant number of business owners and people of means who foot the bulk of the city’s tax bill almost certainly won’t wait to see if the climate in the city turns out to be as toxic as they expect and will get out of Dodge while the getting is good. The goose that laid the golden egg will be slain. The millions of middle-class New Yorkers who can’t afford to move will be stuck with the bill and the fallout. And the city that never sleeps will never be the same.
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