By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Democratic Party is all over the map when it comes to what to do with radical socialist Zohran Mamdani’s shocking victory in New York’s Democratic Party mayoral primary. The ripple effects washed across mainstream media quickly, and know the tsunami has reached Washington D.C.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a.k.a. AOC, Bernie Sanders’ radical commie heir apparent until Mamdani surfaced on the streets of Gotham, has embraced Mamdani’s radical mystique and recently rolled out the red carpet for him when he visited The Beltway. She even hosted a breakfast at the National Democratic Club to promote Mamdani, embracing the 33-year-old’s self-description as a democratic socialist.
While Mamdani has not landed any key endorsements from powerful New York Democrats, he’s got his feelers out hoping to get someone, anyone, in the broader Democratic Party scene. Despite AOC’s support, however, none of those endorsements have materialized. Democratic leadership, New York’s and beyond, is very hesitant to throw anything behind the radical leftist.
That said, the Democratic Party has been moving leftward. In 2016 the party boxed out Bernie Sanders because he was too radical compared to Hillary Clinton, but now he’s pretty much the mainstream of the party. Recognizing that, Zohran Mamdani is then the logical move leftward – and the GOP is capitalizing on his rise warning Americans that radical figures like Mamdani represent the future of the Democratic Party.
The problem is not just that he is a representation of what the Democratic Party is becoming, but that Mamdani is looking to take the reins of heart of what was once the proud symbol of American capitalism — New York City — some might even say the economic center of the world.
New York City has been the home of many mayors. Most of them leaning leftward, but a wide variety that even included an exceptional man that got the city turned around like Rudy Giuliani. But Mamdani is no Giuliani, much less anything else that New York has ever seen before. He’s not just a progressive. He’s not even just a socialist. No — Mamdani’s a self-declared communist who’s running on a platform that would have made Khrushchev blush.
And the most astonishing part? By the voters in New York, he’s being taken seriously.
Let’s not sugarcoat this: Mamdani’s agenda isn’t some quirky millennial daydream. It is a full-blown manifesto for the destruction of private property, the evisceration of public safety, and the systematic dismantling of everything the American constitutional order stands for.
The communist agenda includes the destruction of what America is about, and Mamadani is true to that Cloward/Piven attitude – and is calling for policies that are proven not only to be failed ideas, but destructive.
He, for one, plans to defund the police and abolish prisons — two foundational pillars of civil society. The idea isn’t to reform or improve our justice system. No, his solution is to eliminate it. To empty the jails. To strip away law enforcement. To replace the police with social workers. In the Marxist fantasyland of Mamdani’s mind, criminal behavior is just a symptom of capitalism — and therefore, the criminal is the real victim.
Then there’s the assault on private healthcare — he wants universal, government-run healthcare, while simultaneously proposing that state-operated hospitals be prohibited from suing anyone for medical debt. In other words, make healthcare free, destroy any mechanism to keep it solvent, and let the taxpayer carry the wreckage.
Communism abhors ownership of any kind. Possession to them leads to greed and inequality. A friend of mine when he visited Moscow back in the seventies told me that residents not only lived in stack-em-and-pack-em housing, but that window coverings were not allowed so that the resident could not conceal their possessions – a strategy by the government to ensure equity. Mamdani, in true communist fashion, also seeks government controlled housing, and an elimination of possessions. Mamdani wants to ban private ownership of housing and convert it all into government-controlled rental properties. You don’t own your home. The government does. And if you want to keep living there, you’d better stay in line. It’s not just bad policy. It’s an open war on the American dream.
He wants to ban all firearms, in direct contradiction to the Second Amendment. He wants to implement rent control across the board. He calls for government-run grocery stores, which history has shown us result in shortages, rationing, and economic collapse. He wants to decriminalize prostitution, create safe injection sites, end cash bail, decriminalize all drug possession, and completely end cooperation with ICE — making New York not just a sanctuary city, but a sanctuary for lawlessness.
And here’s the kicker — none of this is happening in a vacuum. Mamdani represents the next phase of the progressive left’s ideological evolution. They’re not hiding anymore. The careful creeping incrementalism/Frog-In-The-Pot method has gone out the window. They’re not just inching toward socialism—they’re sprinting into Marxism at warp speed with a mischievous smile befitting of the Cheshire Cat.
This isn’t just a New York problem. This is a preview of coming attractions if conservatives, independents, and even classic liberals don’t take seriously what’s unfolding.
We used to argue over tax rates and infrastructure. Now we’re arguing over whether America should continue to exist as a free constitutional republic at all.
Mamdani isn’t just a fringe candidate. He’s the logical result of a generation taught to despise its own founding, convinced that the Constitution is an outdated relic, and seduced by the utopianism of “equity” by force.
So what’s at stake here? Everything. Because if New York embraces a communist future, the ripple effects won’t stop at the Hudson River. And if we don’t draw a line here, we may not get another chance to stop the slow, smiling collapse of the country we love.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
