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New Yorkers are waking up to the real possibility that a self-described democratic socialist could soon be running the city that powers America’s economy. Polls show Zohran Mamdani with a sizable lead in the mayoral race, which should alarm anyone who cares about safety, prosperity, and the character of our institutions. This is not a distant theory; it’s a close race with real consequences for hardworking families across the five boroughs.
Mamdani’s platform reads like a wishlist for big government: steep tax hikes on millionaires, higher corporate levies, fare-free buses, universal childcare, and expanded entitlements that would cost the city and saddle taxpayers for years. He promises a city run like a social program, paid for by squeezing the people who actually generate jobs and opportunity. New Yorkers deserve to hear plainly how these ideas would affect payrolls, small businesses, and the flight of capital that keeps the city running.
Yet Mamdani has been frantically rebranding, apologizing for past calls to defund the police and insisting he’ll work with officers — an about-face that smells of political survival rather than conviction. That backtracking is exactly what you’d expect from a candidate who needs to placate skeptical centrists, influential donors, and the very business class his rhetoric once attacked. Americans shouldn’t forget the tweets and the rhetoric that propelled him to prominence in the first place.
There are already ugly signs of a campaign that treats law enforcement with contempt behind closed doors: a Mamdani staffer was secretly recorded dismissing what cops think and boasting of pressuring other politicians, yet remained on the campaign payroll even after the video surfaced. At the same time, Mamdani has quietly been courting tech founders and Wall Street types, meeting privately with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists while publicly denouncing “billionaires.” That two-faced approach should make every voter suspicious — it’s the politics of patronage and theater.
Victor Davis Hanson is right to warn that history shows socialism often walks hand in hand with coercion, and that ambitious leftist projects have a knack for co-opting elite support when it suits them. The wealthy don’t always oppose big government; sometimes they bankroll it for cultural prestige, tax maneuvering, or regulatory capture that benefits insiders. Americans must remember that oligarch-friendly salons and private donations can prop up movements that ultimately punish the very creators of wealth.
Mamdani’s rhetoric about “not having billionaires” is dishonest brinkmanship dressed as moral clarity, and even some high-profile business figures have publicly questioned his plans. Wealthy donors can be fickle, and their alliance with progressive causes does not inoculate a city from economic collapse when hostile tax policy and punitive regulation are implemented. Working families and small-business owners — not wealthy donors or trendy activists — will pay the price when ideology trumps common sense.
This race is a wake-up call for conservatives and every patriotic New Yorker who loves this city’s grit and opportunity. Mobilize at the ballot box, demand straight answers about public safety and fiscal responsibility, and don’t let centrist doublespeak lull you into complacency. If history and common sense teach us anything, it’s that we must be vigilant when elites and socialists dance together — the stakes are too high to trust platitudes.
