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Zohran Mamdani is a communist. That much is already clear.
Donald Trump certainly knows it. He called Mamdani a communist a few weeks ago in an interview on Fox. He also said he’d seriously consider withdrawing federal funding for New York if Mamdani wins the mayoral race and chooses not to “do the right thing.”
By “do the right thing,” I suppose Trump simply means, “try not to turn a once-great city into a festering sh*t-tip,” but that’s a trajectory New York is already quite far along, thanks to current mayor Eric Adams, and I don’t suppose Mamdani will be able to resist, since he really is a communist and that’s what communists do. They f*ck everything up.
Every single time.
Mamdani has been coy about the communist label, preferring to say he’s a socialist, which for some reason he thinks sounds less harmful (it isn’t). But then there’s that old video of him saying he wants to seize the means of production like it’s 1870 and New York is still full of factories, not office blocks teeming with Asian mids filming Tik Tok dances and “what I eat in a day as an Asian mid” reels in between Zoom calls.
Anyway, when you talk about seizing the means of production, that means you’re a communist. Q.E.D.
Mamdani’s official platform for mayor, as much as we know about it, reeks of communism too, especially the proposals to introduce a wealth tax for millionaires; open government-run grocery stores with fixed prices; and run private landlords out of town.
But a spicier fragrance also assails the nostrils from Zohran Mamdani. It’s a funk that was first introduced to the Marxist project by people like James Baldwin and Franz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth (1962). They helped create a racially driven Marxism that seeks nothing less than bloody, genocidal revenge on white people wherever they’re to be found. In fact, it makes eliminating white people a precondition of achieving justice for all, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, as the old dogma has it.
That spicy note is there, unmistakably, in Mamdani’s plan to tax white neighbourhoods at different rates from “neighbourhoods of colour,” a proposal which is obviously racist and has been denounced as such. Mamdani won’t give it up, though. He can’t.
In the end, whether you like it or not, it comes down to the fact that Zohran Mamdani isn’t white. In some published writing from about ten years ago, Mamdani confessed his pain at being ignored by all the hot white girls in college. If you think the shame of being passed over by blonde sorority girls isn’t enough to drive a young Ugandan-Indian man to frothing, seething dreams of inversion and revenge, the whole world turned upside down and carved at the joints—think again.
He also has his parents to thank for his hatred of whitey. Zohran’s dad, Mahmood Mamdani, is a dyed-in-the-wool Third Worldist academic who thinks white people are basically responsible for everything bad that’s ever happened.
I remember being forced to read one of his sh*tty books when I was studying anthropology at Cambridge. It was called When Victims Become Killers, about the Rwandan genocide, and the argument went something like this: The Rwandan genocide happened because white colonial powers created a hierarchy of black races in Rwanda in the nineteenth century. It was Europeans, not Africans, who put the idea of racial superiority (and inferiority) in Africans’ heads, and so it was Europeans who put Rwanda on the path to genocide a century or more later.
That’s what the book’s title means: The Africans who murdered other Africans in the millions with machetes and their bare hands, they were victims. Victims of white people.
I thought the argument was moronic at the time—the lithe gracile Tutsis, a pastoralist group, invaded the region and subjugated the stodgy little Hutu, who were farmers, hundreds of years before there were any white people around—and I said so in the essay I’d been tasked to write. My argument didn’t go down very well with my tutor, who looked a lot like Mahmood Mamdani, now that I think about it. So it goes.
All of this is ugly and scary enough. But by the looks of things, there’s even more to come for the people of New York.
Over the weekend, footage surfaced on social media from the recent Socialism 2025 Conference. In a number of videos, some gruesome-looking members of the Democratic Socialists of America talk about what New York will be like with Zohran as mayor, and in particular his agenda for upholding “trans rights.”
One of these hideous misfits is a guy called Daniel Goulden. He’s a member of the DSA’s New York steering committee, and he’s been working directly with the Mamdani campaign. According to Goulden, Mamdani personally meets the DSA on a regular basis.
What’s wonderful about people like Daniel Goulden is their willingness—nay, their boisterous enthusiasm—to tell you exactly who they are and exactly what they’re going to do. You don’t need to coax it out of them. You don’t need to administer scopolamine or take a power-drill to their kneecaps, you don’t need to blackmail them with the contents of their hard drive—you just sit back and let them talk. Hell, they’ll even record themselves for you, so you can rewatch at your own convenience.
The Daniel Gouldens of this world are wolves in wolves’ clothing.
The trick, of course, is to believe your eyes and what these lupine individuals are telling you. A great fault of conservatives, and indeed of ordinary people in general, is to think these people really can’t be that crazy. But the lessons of history are clear: Yes, they really are that crazy.
Daniel Goulden: “Zohran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say we want to do, which is provide gender-affirming care to anyone who wants it for free. We’re gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms.”
Right: If you want your penis cut off or your vagina turned inside out and your breasts deflated—oh, and don’t forget the hormones!—New York will be the destination for you. Travel and accommodation on the taxpayer dime. Got it.
The goal, Goulden explains, is to make New York a national haven for “gender-affirming care,” as more and more states pass laws restricting access to it. A sanctuary, if you will.
What this means, and what Goulden didn’t say out loud, is that New York will be a national haven for “gender-affirming care” for children in particular, since it’s mainly children whose access to mutilation with a side of hormones is now under threat. That’s what Trump’s Executive Order was about—preventing hospitals that perform sex-change procedures on children from accessing federal funding, including Medicare and Medicaid—and that’s what all the new state-level laws being passed are about too.
The governor of New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, just signed into law two bills that restrict access to sex-change procedures for under-18s.
And the Supreme Court recently upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transitions for children, which is likely to inspire even more states to introduce their own.
Last week I saw somebody say that Zohran Mamdani is JD Vance’s best chance for 2028, meaning, of course, that if Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, Vance is a shoe-in for president. I don’t disagree with this assessment at all.
In a city like New York, it’s still possible for a Zohran Mamdani to win by repeating the very mistakes that lost the 2024 election. Changing demographics and the self-hatred of white, college-educated hipsters will see to that. On a national level, however, the wind is blowing in totally the opposite direction. Only an economic disaster or an ill-advised foreign intervention—or both—could change that, I think.
New York under Zohran Mamdani—the child-mutilation capital of communist America—will stand as a dreadful reminder of what could have been if Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump had won in 2024, and of what still could be if Americans make the wrong choice in 2028. I trust they won’t. I mean, I really hope they won’t.
