It was probably the most predictable outcome of the November elections but New York City has officially ushered in its new mayor, a literal communist that has promised New Yorkers the moon and more on his path to victory.
Indeed, Zohran Mamdani will lead New York City, the United States’ greatest financial center. It was perhaps the biggest story among a slew of democratic triumphs over the course of what was undoubtedly a very good, and frankly celebratory, night for those on the left.
And to be sure, in a world where the Republican coalition is fracturing politically and socially, Tuesday night’s elections were certainly reenergizing for a base in desperate need of a public victory.
It’s the sort of thing that has everyone wondering if the midterms will spell the beginning of a blue squall or the big blue typhoon.
It’s certainly possible, but if I were Democrats, I’d be wary of celebrating the return of an all-powerful coalition that’s going to sail to total victory too early.
And if I were among the top Republicans, I would be equally wary about declaring the country over and abandoning hope and common sense.
As far as New York’s mayoral race, I’m hearing a lot of Republican pundits say that Andrew Cuomo ran a terrible campaign. And in all fairness, he did save his most hard hitting anti communism ads until well after early voting had all ready started.
However, I have a different view and I’m not convinced that even a near perfect campaign run would have changed the outcome.
As everyone ought to already know by now, Mamdani’s election is the natural consequence of where the Democrat Party was always going to end up, especially in New York.
In just the last ten years alone, we have watched leftists push for and campaign on behalf of the very ideas that Mamdani is championing.
For even longer, Democrats have fostered jealousy, envy, discontent and used racial politics to polarize half the country to move according to their whims. They purposely instilled the very grievances necessary to create tens of millions of voters that are not only dangerously ignorant but also warm to radical philosophies that have never worked to the advantage of ordinary people.
And this purposeful transformation of the half of the electorate into believing that they must usher in a revolution was always going to be a dangerous gambit that would ultimately bear fruit.
Because here’s the thing, if you cultivate a revolutionary mindset into an entire generation of young people, and large swaths of old ignorant fools, you’re going to get a revolutionary outcome.
And as with every revolution comes blood, ruin and sacrifice for what its participants believe is a better outcome. And as far as New York is concerned, that blood sacrifice will come at the great expense of Mamdani, Curtis Silwa and Cuomo voters alike.
The truth is, Cuomo was never going to be able to suddenly run a blue dog Democrat campaign and win in 2025 after decades of championing and furthering destructive ideas. He was never going to suddenly be able to pull back and say “hey guys, communism is bad” after he and his party have played footsie with the ideology for longer than I’ve been alive.
And so it goes for the rest of the races that far leftists sweeped on Tuesday night.
There are even right wingers that are stunned that Virginia attorney General elect Jay Jones, won his race despite saying openly that he wished death and tragedy on his opponents and their children.
I’m not surprised, and you shouldn’t be either.
It wasn’t that long ago that a leftist shot Charlie Kirk in the neck in full view of the public and many of our friends in real life were indifferent at best and celebratory at worse.
And if that wasn’t gross enough, they lied about him and his beliefs in death to justify their wickedness towards him and the right wing writ large.
There’s going to be a lot of folks that say that this entire thing was a referendum on President Trump and the Republican agenda.
They’ll do the Stephen A. Smith routine and say, “Well Trump is rude and mean and says terrible things all the time that make my tummy hurt.”
Yes. Yes he does.
But I was born in 1989, not 2016, so I’m old enough to remember that political discourse has been ugly, overcharged and filled with embellishments and prevarications long before the orange man arrived.
I’ll grant those critics this, there’s no question that the left’s enduring hatred towards Republican values played a role in the victories we saw during Tuesday’s elections.
But there’s something also something to be said about why the Republican Party is losing its momentum among voters. On one hand, it’s a political truism that the party in power is typically the one that tends to lose electorally as time goes on.
American politics are incredibly reactionary in nature and there’s no question that the state of the economy and the sense of chaos and disorder that Republicans are putting out are impacting their appeal to the electorate.
It’s notable that while President Trump is hyper focused on putting foreign conflicts to bed abroad, the United States is unstable at home, a feeling that was massively influenced by the government shutdown and the palpable dread of losing SNAP benefits.
Really, it doesn’t matter that Democrats were the ones responsible for withholding the votes to keep the government shutdown. Americans don’t care about the whys or the hows of that sort of thing, just the immediate effects to their lives.
As far as strategies go, I have to hand it to Democrats. It was a very savvy play to reframe their appeal to voters and create a scenario where Republicans would bear the brunt of the blame.
Still, it’s really not the political cataclysm that some folks on the right are making it out to be.
Yes, that a radical Muslim is now sitting at the helm of the same city that Muslim terrorists attacked over 20 years prior is troubling, but it’s not the end of the free world.
New York is going to get exactly what it wished for but if they leftists there believed Mamdani’s nonsense about a socialist utopia, they’re going to be deeply disappointed on several fronts.
When it comes to governance, no leader is just going to run with his power completely unchecked, even in a nation that seems increasingly hungry for socialism.
That’s not to say that bad governance can’t destroy your region and leave it in a post apocalyptic state for decades (I’m looking at you California) without any hope for the future.
It most certainly can and we’ve seen it happen.
Fortunately, the American system is fairly durable and it can withstand a hell of a lot of punishment from the worst of bad actors. However, even that robustness has its limits.
But for the time being, I believe it behooves everyone to simply calm down, take a deep breath and remember that the midterms, and indeed, the next presidential election, are quite a ways away.
