New York’s 33-year-old wannabe boy mayor has addressed a wide array of topics. His own words confirm his critics’ chief charge: He’s a Communist in democratic-socialist clothing.
Mamdani is relaxed about crime. Private property makes him nervous.
What follows is not an exhaustive list of statements by the Democrat party’s inexperienced, untested nominee to govern America’s most populous city. However, this is an extensive collection of Mamdani’s comments. These are compiled from news reports as well as Mamdani’s speeches, videos, campaign website, X account, and a slew of his social-media posts that scrolled on Fox News’ Hannity program on August 26. That night, Left-wing former mayor Bill de Blasio used that occasion to praise Mamdani. This alone was an ominous omen.
“Seeing all of these quotes in one place, at one sitting, shows how radical and wrong for New York Zohran Mamdani truly is,” said Betsy McCaughey, the Empire State’s former lieutenant governor, founder of SaveNYC.org, and leader of the anti-Mamdani opposition. “Keep reading and prepare to be shocked.”
This selection of Mamdani’s declarations is organized thematically, in alphabetical order:
“Climate Change”
“Climate change is the central issue of our time.”
“The climate crisis isn’t separate from the crisis of capitalism.”
“Oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure.”
“Decarbonize Our Economy.”
Crime/Law and Order
“No, we want to defund the police.”
“There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence.”
“Queer liberation means defund the police.
Mamdani now claims that he no longer would defund the police. How convenient!
“We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
As of November 2024, NYPD’s majority-minority ranks were 11.3 percent Asian, 16.5 percent black, 32.5 percent Hispanic, and 39.7 percent white. As for being “anti-queer” — please excuse that hideous epithet — NYPD employs gays, patrols at gay-pride events, and fosters safety so that scores of local gay-owned enterprises can flourish.
“End cash bail.”
“We’re going to abolish cash bail in New York State.”
“Decriminalize sex work.”
“Sex workers in Queens endure nonstop harassment not only from bigots, but from the NYPD. There’s no pride in police violence. We need #decrim now.”
“Permit safe injection sites.”
“As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements and brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment [sic] rights.”
Mamdani made this last statement via X on December 19, 2024. He referred to the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group. If Mamdani had his way, the SRG would have been dust in the wind. This would have eased gunman Shane Tamura’s mission: to murder even more innocents during his July 28 mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan. Instead, the SRG arrived in just two minutes. Tamura weighed his options and then fatally shot himself.
There is much more. “The entire carceral system is an unreformable public health hazard,” Mamdani announced via social media, “Defund & dismantle.”
“What purpose do they serve?” he asked about prisons.
“What violent crime is — is defined by the state,” Mamdani told a 2021 protest outside the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Pro-criminal Leftists aimed to scrap cash bail and padlock Rikers Island jail. Mamdani further psychobabbled, “Violence is an artificial construction.”
“White supremacy has many faces from the police & prison systems in America to occupation & apartheid in Palestine.”
The Economy
Mamdani’s fiscal approach is simple: Tax, spend, and expropriate. Zohranomics is driven by what he told the Democratic Socialists of America in 2021. Their “end goal” should be “seizing the means of production.” This notion comes straight out of V.I. Lenin’s The State and Revolution.
“NY should exercise eminent domain & acquire the 4k+ unsold luxury apartment in NYC, for homeless families.”
“We freeze the rent.”
“We need to abolish private insurance.”
Mamdani wants a $30-per-hour minimum wage. (Why not $100-per-hour?)
“When we tax the rich, we’re reclaiming the wealth bosses & corporations steal.”
Freebies for All
“We need: Free abortion & contraception on demand.”
“Zohran will implement free childcare for every New Yorker aged 6 weeks to 5 years.”
Mamdani says on X that he is, “Running to freeze the rent, make buses fast + free, and deliver universal childcare.”
“As Mayor, Zohran will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.”
“Abolish ‘medical bills.’”
“We need a statewide, single-payer health system.”
Illegal Aliens
“We’re showing up in Bryant Park to say NO to Trump’s union-busting, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT agenda”
Note Mamdani’s deceptive deployment of the Left’s dustiest weapon: Trump is “anti-immigrant.” Wrong! Trump welcomes legal immigrants, who arrive with passports and visas. He opposes illegal aliens, who break into America with neither permission nor papers.
Israel and Anti-Semitism
“Israel is committing a genocide.”
“Yesterday Andrew Cuomo said he was joining Netanyahu’s legal defense team. I would take a different approach to war criminals.”
“As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu,” Mamdani told Mehdi Hasan of Middle East Eye last December 2.
“There’s no queer liberation under occupation. Not for the queer Palestinians murdered by the IDF.”
“BDS is a righteous movement for liberation.”
“We continue that fight today for a better world and a free Palestine.”
“Stop NY-registered charities from donating money to illegal Israeli settlements.”
Mamdani repeatedly and steadfastly refuses to condemn the inflammatory, anti-Semitic phrase, “Globalize the Intifada.”
Private Property
Mamdani is relaxed about crime. Private property makes him nervous. In a video that resurfaced in mid-July, Mamdani said: “If there was [sic] any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.”
“Mamdani isn’t offering a housing plan — he’s pushing a Communist manifesto. The idea of abolishing private property is fundamentally anti-American and wildly out of touch with the real issues New Yorkers face,” Congressman Nick Langworthy (R-New York) told the New York Post. “New York City has to decide: Do they want a mayor who believes in safety and prosperity, or a Communist who wants to seize your home?”
Second Amendment
Regarding the Second Amendment, Zohran Mamdani cannot count to two. What does he think of the right to keep and bear arms? “We need to ban all guns.”
Socialismo o muerte
“We are unapologetic about our socialism.”
“We can build a socialist NY.”
“New York is the birthplace of a global socialist feminist movement.”
“Comrades” is how Mamdani refers to his Democrat legislative colleagues in Albany.
All of this leaves Zohran Mamdani warm and toasty. As he summarized it: “tfw [that feeling when] the boys know you’re a socialist.”
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