As the vote totals rolled in on Tuesday, it quickly became clear that a major upset was brewing. 

Disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo had been favored to win the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of New York City. Yet, the numbers kept stacking up for a left-wing Muslim socialist who wants to "queer the police" while also defunding them, and sometime before midnight, it was no longer a hypothetical. Zohran Mamdani had emerged victorious, and with that, New York City's fate appeared to be sealed. 

SEE: New York Mayoral Primary Election Results

While there's still an outside chance that the scandal-plagued current mayor, Eric Adams, could win as an independent in the general election if several other candidates, including Cuomo, get behind him, let's just say I'm not exactly confident that's how things will play out. Instead, it looks like New Yorkers saw the destruction of Chicago's socialist lunatic of a mayor and decided they wanted that too, but even worse. 

So, who exactly is Mamdani? He's the son of a Columbia professor (because of course he is) and an absolute radical in every respect of the word. On October 8th, 2023, just hours after Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered 1200 people while taking almost 300 more hostage, Mamdani posted this online. 

In the weeks before Tuesday's primary election, Mamdani was questioned about the rash of antisemitism in New York City and his support of pro-Hamas groups. His response was to defend the use of the chant "globalize the intifada" while comparing those who say it to those who died in the Holocaust.

Mamdani's pro-terror associations don't just center around the "Palestinian" cause either. He's also got ties to individuals who believed America deserved 9/11. 

To believe that Mamdani is just naive is akin to believing Osama Bin Laden really did just care about climate change. The most likely explanation for his long-standing associations and expressed sympathies with Islamists is that he is one himself. That's who New Yorkers just made the odds-on favorite to be their next mayor, less than 25 years after 9/11. What an absolute disgrace to the memory of those who perished that day. 

But what about his economic and social policies? In short, Mamdani is a communist, and not in the way that word is sometimes used on the right to describe crony capitalist Democrats. No, Mamdani is literally just a communist. Two of his primary proposals are government-owned grocery stores and rent control. 

Meanwhile, he doesn't even dance around wanting to defund the police and destroy the criminal justice system in the name of radically dangerous social justice pursuits. 

At this point, you might be asking how New York City ended up in this position. After all, who in their right mind would vote for someone like Mamdani? The answer is the same as it's been for a while when discussing the elevation of left-wing radicalism in America: Affluent, white, female liberals. 

They will not rest until they've destroyed what's left of Western civilization. 

With all that said, I'm not in much of a mood to further lament what is about to happen to New York City. It's about time the rest of America stopped feeling sympathy, as if this was the result of misguided naivete. No, they voted for an antisemitic Islamic communist with their eyes wide open. The destruction that is coming was a choice, and New Yorkers deserve to suffer the consequences of that. No federal bailouts and no interference to try to save them from themselves. Let it happen.