The Big Apple just elected its first Muslim socialist mayor, and he wasted no time torching capitalism, President Trump and the American Dream in a victory speech that read like a Che Guevara fever dream.
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist and state assemblyman, clinched the Democratic primary runoff Tuesday, positioning him as the prohibitive favorite to become New York City’s 110th mayor in January.
His acceptance speech blended Marxist rhetoric with direct taunts at the president.
"After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him," Mamdani declared. "If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one."
"So, Donald Trump—since I know you’re watching—I have four words for you: turn the volume up," the socialist Democrat continued. "We will hold bad landlords to account, because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
Mamdani, who identifies as a “Muslim democratic socialist,” delivered the remarks beneath American and city flags, flanked by a campaign sign reading “Zohran for New York City.”
"We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks," he said. "We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections, because we know—just as Donald Trump does—that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. Hear me, President Trump: when I say this, to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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Mamdani also pledged to freeze rents, make buses free and fast, and deliver universal childcare.
He quoted labor leader Eugene Debs and Indian socialist Jawaharlal Nehru while celebrating the defeat of "a political dynasty."
Democrats ride a sugar high tonight, but reality bites. Communism glitters on paper; lived experience delivers bread lines and empty shelves. Mice die in traps because they never question free cheese—and Gotham's voters just swallowed the bait.
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