“I read all 16,100 tweets that Zohran Mamdani has ever posted”

Posted on by Constitutional Nobody

This from The Federalist’s Olivia Reinhold:

I just spent the past week reading every tweet Zohran Mamdani has ever posted. Here’s what I learned:

– called cops “fascists”
– advocated for “free abortion on demand”
– once said rich people’s apartments should go to the homeless
– believed socialism >>> capitalism

‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail

By Olivia Reingold,  THE Federalist,. July 25, 2025:

I read all 16,100 tweets that Zohran Mamdani has ever posted.

Why? Because the Democratic front-runner for New York City mayor sounds polished now—but he didn’t start that way.

The Free Press mobile app is here! The Free Press app gives you access to everything we write, record, and film, all in one place. It’s fast and easy to use, and the best way to make sure you never miss a Free Press story.

If he wins in November, Mamdani, 33, would become the city’s first digital-native mayor.

But long before he was a rising political star, Mamdani was “Young Cardamom,” “TreyDadday,” and “bayaye27,” as he documented his life across the web in unfiltered bursts. What I saw in reading all of his posts, which span 18 years and multiple personas, is a portrait of a man with a revolutionary vision for America. One that hasn’t faded

Mamdani’s internet trail reveals far more than a veneered candidate biography on a website ever could. In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law), and insists that New York should look more like socialist Vienna. As Mamdani moves more into general-election mode as the front-runner to beat—wearing suits, moderating his message, and cozying up to the business community—his digital past offers a rare glimpse of the ideology beneath the polish.

The Mamdani campaign did not respond to my requests for comment. But here is the real Mamdani, based on my review of his internet past:

“Capitalism is theft.”

That is how Mamdani put it in 2020, when he was a first-time candidate and self-described socialist running for New York’s state assembly in Queens. He posted a PDF from the Marxists Internet Archive, used hashtags like #TaxTheRich and #CancelRent, and referred to supporters not as voters but “comrades.”

This wasn’t just talk. He called for a “political revolution,” and argued that socialism wasn’t “some utopian fantasy” but the “only pragmatic response to the crises we face.” He praised Vienna’s public housing model—where roughly 60 percent of residents live in government-owned apartments—and said New York should emulate it. “We want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it on the market,” he wrote, “[and] toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.”

But Vienna’s housing system, widely cited by Mamdani, has been plagued by reports of rising rents, deteriorating buildings, and aging units without basic amenities like private bathrooms or central heating.

That didn’t dull his enthusiasm. He comes from a posh family—his mother, award-winning director Mira Nair, sold her Chelsea loft for $1.45 million in 2019—but Mamdani treats wealth itself as a form of theft. “Socialism doesn’t mean stealing money from the rich,” he wrote on X in 2020. “It means taking back money the rich stole from everyone else.” In another post: “Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.”

He hasn’t disavowed those views. When asked on CNN last month whether he liked capitalism, Mamdani smiled. “No, I have many critiques of capitalism,” he said.

If elected, Mamdani plans to expand the public sector significantly—making all bus rides free, opening a city-run grocery store in every borough, and offering universal childcare.

“We don’t just need more accountability. We need fewer police.”

That’s what Mamdani tweeted in the summer of 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests. He wasn’t subtle. “Defund the NYPD,” he wrote during a week of violent unrest across the country. A month later, he laid out a four-point plan to begin doing just that: freeze hiring, cancel overtime, halt equipment purchases, and slash $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget over four years—“to start,” he added.

In December 2020, he took his criticism a step further, calling the police force “haram.” Since then, and especially since Mamdani launched his mayoral campaign, his tone has shifted. On the debate stage, he said that “police have a critical role to play in public safety.” His platform no longer includes budget cuts. Instead, he proposes creating a new Department of Community Safety to handle gun violence and severe mental illness.

Continued……

ussanews.com

Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Pamela Geller

This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://gellerreport.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.

USSANews.com
ussanews.com
ussanews.com
USSANews.com