Wise Up New York: Don’t Be a Chumbolone Town Like Chicago

By John Kass

Sunday July 20, 2025

Study that photograph and see the Grand Marshal of Chicago’s Gay Pride parade. It was the summer of 2019, as the Democrat Party nationally was about to fully present itself as the weak border, soft on crime party of George Soros. But there at the Chicago’s pride parade of the past, Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot is smiling.

Her arms open wide to a world that loves her. Things change.

And, as Patton informs us, a slave whispered into the ear of the conqueror, “all glory is fleeting, all glory is fleeting.”

That next year brought the police killing of  George Floyd. George Soros’ do-nothing soft-on-crime Democrat prosecutors were in place in Chicago and other big cities just as the Black Lives Matter riots broke out in all the major cities, destroying the downtown business districts. The left wing teachers unions joined the spasms aimed at President Donald Trump as the political left gathered hysterical momentum in the Summer of Love.

Chicago circled the drain, ditching Lightfoot the weakling who tried to curry favor with the hard left Soros prosecutor. She was overwhelmed by the BLM riots and then ultimately replaced by a paranoid incompetent, Mayor Panic Attacks Brandon Johnson.

And New York, the capital city of capitalism, found a new darling to celebrate its self-loathing, the socialist child of privilege who has never had a job, Zoran Mamdani who won the Democrat primary for mayor.

A July poll by market research company HarrisX shows Mamdani leading a four-man race. The survey of 585 registered New York City voters has Mamdani with 26% of the vote, followed by Cuomo (23%), Sliwa (22%) and Adams (13%). Fifteen percent of responded said they are undecided. Yet Cuomo and Sliwa are within the polls margin of error, meaning the results essentially show a three-way tie.

According to that poll:

• In a four-way race, Mamdani (26 percent) is tied with Cuomo (23 percent) and Sliwa (22 percent), all within the margin of error. Adams is at 13 percent and 15 percent of voters are undecided.
• In a three-way race without Adams, Cuomo (31 percent) is statistically tied with Mamdani (29 percent) and Sliwa (28 percent).
• In a three-way race without Cuomo, Mamdani leads by 10 points, winning 35 percent to Sliwa’s 25 percent and Adams’ 19 percent.
• In head-to-head matchups, Mamdani topples Adams 43 percent to 36 percent, but trails Cuomo 35 percent to 50 percent, a 15-point advantage for Cuomo.

What does it spell for Democrats? Fear and panic.

Adams has been weakened by corruption, although his supporters will make appeals to race to seek black votes. Cuomo is burdened by his sexual harassment past  during COVID times, and by the slogan, slapping fannies and killin’ grannies.  Sliwa has a narrow path to victory, but no management experience. Some of Mamdani’s Jewish critics have criticized his Muslim religion, even as Mamdani has embraced, then avoided calls to globalize the intifada.

Mamdani is the flavor of young voters of the socialist, communist left and Democratic leaders are hiding, lest they anger the left in New York, one of most Jewish of cities. But they fear the militant socialists, too.

Where will Democrat leaders such as  Sen. Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Democrat House leader Hakim Jefferies fall? Is this their ramrod spine moment? Can they afford to abandon their own Democrat nominee? Or will they cave into fear?

“Ultimately they’ll all fall in line because they’re petrified of far left primaries,” said Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler of suburban New York. “Schumer is absolutely petrified of AOC in 2028. Democrats are talking about primarying Hakeem Jefferies and Kathy Hochul is on the ballot next year. The worst governor in America. She is consistently  below 50 percent in the polls and petrified  that the far left won’t be there for her in a general election. They’ll fall in line as they always do. Democrats tend t0 be lemmings, and they’ll walk right off the cliff with an avowed socialist who is talking about seizing the means of production, banning private property. He wants government run grocery stores’ and he’s against capitalism. A trust fund baby. It is mind boggling to watch.”

Mind boggling yes, but I’m enjoying the Democrat panic. So is Lawler.

So when is Schumer going to roll over for Mamdani?

Whenever I think of Schumer whimpering and whining–he is called Pagliacci for a reason– remember that it was Sen. Schumer who stood before a leftist mob calling for blood and threatened the Supreme Court for views he disagreed with.

It is always violence with the left.

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said at a pro-abortion-rights rally outside the court. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

 

You don’t know what hit you?

Chief Justice John Roberts publicly rebuked Schumer. Democrats were silent.

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said in a written statement distributed to reporters.

And now after violence and more threats and violence, what next?

Democrats of New York city are now riding the tiger high on the withers. And they don’t know how to get off, anymore that they can tell the communists that they like the idea of private property and grocery stores that carry more than beets and garlic. They made their own bed, appeasing and appeasing and now it’s too late to tell the tiger to get to bed.

He’s up. He’s not going to lie down. And he’s hungry.

It’s like Mr. Dooley of Chicago used to say about politics.

It ain’t beanbag.

It’s up to you New York, New York.

(copyright John Kass 2025)

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