Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old communist, Islamist, and state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani was backed by leftists such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The general election will be held in November, after which Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of NYC.
Mamdani is originally from the failed, poverty-stricken, war-torn African nation of Uganda. Naturally, this makes him the best person to run an American city of more than 8 million people with an annual budget of $100 billion (polling indicates that Mandani won college-educated voters, further demonstrating that degrees seem to be making people dumber by the second).
Mamdani is not shy about his radicalism. The day after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas, Mamdani rushed to X to justify the atrocities. He supports a variety of Marxist economic policies such as state-run grocery stores that purposefully avoid profits (imagine AOC’s explanation when one of these stores is looted). He also supports a variety of pro-criminal initiatives.
The point here is not to explain why these ideas are flawed or why they will make the city even more unlivable if Mamdani wins. If voters in NYC haven’t figured this out by now, and many obviously haven’t, then they never will. The idea is to once again point out that legal immigration has fundamentally reshaped our electorate. Who comes here is far more important than how they get here. Some of the worst migration outcomes have been the result of legal immigration. The many examples of this include the Somali gangs running parts of Minneapolis, the U.S. street celebrations over the massacre of noncombatant Israelis on Oct. 7, and the increasing waving of other countries’ flags at leftist U.S. political events.
Despite the absurdity of New Yorkers possibly electing an Islamist as mayor less than 25 years after 9/11, prepare to be told by the left that a foreign-born Muslim seizing political control of America’s largest city is the most American thing ever. In fact, suggesting that there’s something deeply wrong with it makes you the radical.
Having what used to be our mightiest city captured by a hostile adversary who despises everything American will be characterized as “the American dream.” It’s a dream alright, just not an American one. But for the Democratic Party, the most American thing you can do is destroy America, and anything done to preserve the traditions of our people is un-American. This gibberish isn’t supposed to make sense, it’s intended to shut you up through accusations of bigotry if you dare to point out that immigration has, by design, made victories like Mamdani’s more probable.
When Democrats characterize something as American or un-American, these words have no actual meaning – they are nothing more than mouth sounds with fleeting definitions that change by the second, depending on which usage accrues power to the Democratic Party at any given moment.
Despite being constantly told that Americans are intolerant, we have been far too tolerant, especially on immigration. It is our fatal flaw. Tolerance is touted as a virtue, but much like diversity, tolerance is not inherently good or bad. It’s just a vague description that lacks meaning without additional context. In this case, it has been decidedly negative to the point of ushering in civilizational suicide.
America’s enemies have long understood what many Americans have denied, all to avoid uncomfortable realities about cultural differences. After all, liberalism at its core can be distilled to a single principle — the reckless disregard of uncomfortable truths.
As I mentioned here, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed predicted what’s happening today in NYC and across the broader West when he told one of his interrogators:
“Your civil liberties, openness and willingness to be responsive to other peoples’ cultures are weaknesses and flaws that Allah put into the American culture so that you could be defeated. Like-minded jihadi brothers will immigrate to Western democracies and to the United States, they will wrap themselves in your civil liberties for protection and support themselves in your welfare systems while they spread their jihadi message, and then, when the time was right, they will rise up and attack.”
That we have not heeded this warning is shameful. If we do not get serious about an America-first immigration policy, there will soon be nothing left to save.