Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about legacy media outlets’ willful ignorance regarding the leading New York City mayoral candidate.
I feel the need to bluntly point out that the financial capital of the world is about to elect a communist who calls himself a socialist and has no real understanding of either ideology.
It is both sad and amusing to see how media commentators are failing to reckon with the reality of this simple fact. (More accurately, perhaps: They are necessarily accommodating themselves to an inexorable future.) The Wall Street Journal was out this weekend with a peppy, upbeat personal profile of Mamdani’s rise to power, which could not help but remind me of Simpsons anchorman Kent Brockman turning on a dime midway through the Springfield Evening News to welcome his new insect overlords. In upscale liberal quarters, the New Yorker is attempting to sell us on “The Case for Zohranomics.” (For those curious, it amounts to little better than “imagine a world where money isn’t real.”)
I can assure you that no such excuses will be made for Zohran Mamdani here at National Review. Regardless of brand affiliation (“Democrat,” “Democratic Socialist,” etc.), the man is an avowed communist in his own words. At this point, only his lack of any real-life work experience offers cause for hope: Imagine how doomed New York might be if he actually successfully executes on any of his goals.
Do I exaggerate? Am I engaging in shabby Red-baiting by calling Zohran Mamdani an outright communist? (Keep in mind, NR would never consider itself above Red-baiting — we are proud to have been founded in large part for that specific purpose.) No, not really. Mamdani has happily confessed in the past that he and his cause need to soft-pedal their real aims, because people don’t yet believe in “BDS and the end goal of seizing the means of production.” (BDS is shorthand for the “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” movement, the other true animating passion of Mamdani’s life.)
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