Editors at National Review Online analyze New Yorkers’ choice in this week’s mayoral election.
On Tuesday night, Democratic primary voters chose socialist Zohran Mamdani as their nominee for mayor of New York City. Mamdani, a previously unknown progressive state legislator, defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in an upset so decisive that Cuomo instantly conceded the race rather than wait until the primary’s “ranked choice” ballot is recalculated next week to reflect a two-man preference between Cuomo and Mamdani. Those final numbers will look different, but the outcome is now a foregone conclusion: Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee and, as such, is likely to be the next mayor.
Having editorialized once about the public menace posed by a Mamdani mayoralty, we have little to add but to shake our heads in despair at whom New York Democrats have selected. Andrew Cuomo — who remains as corrupt and personally foul as he ever was while governor of the state, and who ran his campaign as a joylessly inevitable coronation rather than an appeal for votes — perhaps made the choice too easy for New Yorkers eager for change. But they have been sold a bill of goods regardless.
To recap some of Zohran Mamdani’s more prominent campaign planks: He has called for citywide rent freezes and promises to eliminate MTA bus fares at the risk of suffering service reductions. During the George Floyd era, he was a “Defund the Police” activist; he has since moderated to degrading them instead, in favor of using “social workers” as opposed to armed force to contain urban violence and maintain safety on troubled streets. He has advocated for the implementation of a $30 minimum wage. Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.
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