Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist and leading figure in the Democratic Party’s extremist wing, is positioned to become New York City’s next mayor thanks to the city’s flawed ranked-choice voting system.
As a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a vocal advocate for the party’s most radical policies, Mamdani represents the far-left faction that has increasingly dominated Democratic politics in major cities. His socialist ideology isn’t hidden or moderate—he openly embraces it, pushing for government control of housing, dismantling capitalism, and implementing the kind of policies that have devastated cities worldwide.
Tomorrow, New York City will vote to determine the Democratic candidate for mayor, and the latest poll shows this self-admitted socialist leading, despite former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holding a slight edge in first-choice preferences—36 percent to 34 percent.
Under the city’s ranked-choice voting system (an election method that has kept Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski in the U.S. Senate), if no candidate reaches 50 percent, the race goes to a second round where the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed. This continues, round after round, until someone crosses 50 percent.
According to polling, while Cuomo may lead initially, more voters are choosing Mamdani as their second choice, giving the socialist the eventual victory through vote redistribution—a perfect example of how ranked-choice voting can subvert the will of voters who preferred the moderate candidate.
If Mamdani wins, he would make former Mayor Bill de Blasio look like Barry Goldwater. This genuine socialist supports disastrous rent freezes, opposes Israel, would eliminate school reform and choice, wants to handcuff police, and is openly anti-business—the complete far-left package that has already begun destroying American cities.
Mamdani is a radical activist who doesn’t hide his extreme agenda. New York is already on a dangerous path, and he would drive this great city straight into the ground.
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But it’s not like Democratic voters have many good options. Andrew Cuomo—really? The man who got COVID completely wrong? Who locked down his state unnecessarily? Who sent COVID patients into nursing homes where it killed the most vulnerable? Who was accused by multiple women of harassment?
Sure, he’s slightly more moderate, but he’s a terrible leader who would never stand up to the radical left base of his party.
The current mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is a former Democrat who ran as an independent after it became clear he was too moderate to win a Democratic primary.
I personally hope Mamdani wins. Watching him do to New York what Mayor Sadiq Khan has done to London would be fascinating to observe. Democrats should get what they vote for, and Mamdani would give it to them good and hard.
The most interesting political reality emerging today is watching Democrats in these Democrat-run cities choose failure, decay, and misery. Their unwillingness to change course, even as everything burns around them, is unlike anything we’ve seen before. In the past, even urban Democrats eventually said enough is enough and voted for someone like Rudy Giuliani. Not anymore. Today’s Democrats are so ideologically rigid that rather than admit they’re wrong, they let their cities burn out of spite.
I think that’s great. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the rest are not my problem.
