What the Mamdani mayoral victory means for the rest of the country
The Mamdani victory was not an isolated incident that will be limited to the crazy blue coast or just the Burroughs of New York.
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and now Zohran Mamdani has the potential to grassroot across America over the next few years with the right messaging. This wave of Muslim immigration and extreme socialist views is working its way from Western Europe (Russia, Germany, France, and England have the largest Muslim populations) across the Atlantic.
For America this is not a Muslim problem, but rather an economics problem. More importantly, a math equation that must be solved.
The message that won over a far-left liberal NYC by beating an already very liberal misogynistic “handsy” former governor (name recognition) that ran the very same city into the toilet with the most deaths and second in crime only to Chicago, during COVID was a basic economics lesson taken from Comrade Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign playbook.
Despite the noise on X (formerly Twitter) — filled with debates over antisemitism, criticism of the Israeli lobby, frustration with Israel’s handling of Gaza, and the growing anti-Zionist movement — I don’t believe any of that explains Mamdani’s victory Tuesday night. It’s simply not plausible that a so-called “Muslim extremist” could win in a city with a large Jewish population by running on antisemitism.
Like Bernie Sanders and AOC, Mamdani’s campaign tapped into a deeper truth: the American middle class is being squeezed out of existence. The same oligarchic forces — Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the military-industrial complex — continue to enrich the political elite at the expense of the middle class.
Newsflash for “The Squad…”
Your so-called enemies on the far right (The late Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith) to name a few have been saying the exact same thing.
We are all two sides of the same coin that the big oligarchy has pitted against one another by marginalizing with propaganda to waste most of our time arguing over transgender, LGBTQ, election interference, Trump hatred issues, so that we don’t talk about what is most important to 98% of Americans….
“It’s the economy stupid!”
During the New York City Mayoral debate, each candidate was asked “What foreign country would you visit first as Mayor of New York City?”
Huh?
As stated above, the narrative is to make this about Israel and antisemitism.
Each candidate on the debate floor all said that Israel would be their first trip. That is, each candidate, except for Mamdani.
You see, the mainstream narrative about Israel was to expose the Muslim candidate Mamdani as a Jew hater that hates Israel. What was his response? He was the only candidate that said that his goal as mayor was to help New Yorkers, even the Jewish New Yorkers and had no time to be traveling abroad when there is a crisis and need to solve problems at home.
Yes & Amen!
He brought it back to what matters and resonates most to people. The unaffordability of groceries, health care, and housing.
This is the same message that Bernie Sanders and AOC resonated with as they spoke across the nation this past summer. When you stick to what resonates with the middle class and especially across college campuses with Gen Z, they pay attention. They don’t care about Israel, transgender, nor climate change. They are pissed off as to why they will never be able to afford a home. Why are they graduating college with three hundred thousand dollars of student loan debt and unable to find a job? They have zero aspirations to get married and have kids, if they cannot afford a home and do not even have a job. Why are so many Americans buying groceries with three interest free monthly installment payments?
This is the real reason Mamdani, a Muslim Socialist in a Jewish City won so easily. He has the right diagnosis of what is wrong in New York City. Bernie Sanders has had the right diagnosis of what is wrong in America since his 2016 campaign which is why a very old and angry grandfather was able to connect with college kids, in the same way that a young Charlie Kirk also connected with the exact same demographic.
This is the very same message as Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, and Ron Paul libertarians have said for years. This is the message that has been able to reach across party lines and on college campuses with the next generation that has no hope.
The only difference between these two sides is their solution to the real problem of unaffordability and hopelessness across America.
One side believes that Socialism and more government is the solution.
The other side believes the less government and free market capitalism is the solution.
Both sides cannot be right. Maybe Charlie Kirk was on to something and both sides instead of fighting, pointing fingers, and disparaging one another, perhaps we should have open debates in public forums about which solution is the best and why, and celebrate the common ground that we can all agree on instead of focusing on the minor issues that separate us.
If not, then we will just have to wait and see if the thirty-four-year-old Democratic Socialist Immigrant has the right solutions and can be successful mayor then future president, or if this experiment falls flat or makes things worse for the five million New Yorkers that may have just spoken up for the other three hundred million Americans.