Of Course the GOP Will Make Zohran Mamdani the New Face of the Democratic Party
“Where did he come from? Whose friend is this? I’m not feeling this plan. No. I will give him $258,750 and a first class one-way ticket away from NY.”
When I heard that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani had all but clinched the Democratic nomination this week, the immortal words of 20th-century writer H.L. Mencken came to mind.“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
I’m sure I wasn’t alone.
What were the Democrats thinking? The charismatic, smooth-talking, 33-year-old state legislator who proudly calls himself a Democratic Socialist also happens to be an anti-ICE, anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian radical who, up until his election-year conversion, supported defunding the police and emptying our prisons.
His campaign website tells voters, “Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.”
While Mamdani distanced himself during his campaign from some of his more radical positions, his platform still features a slate of progressive proposals, including free city buses, a rent freeze, affordable housing reforms, city-owned grocery stores, and free child care, all funded by higher taxes on the top 1% of taxpayers and corporations.
Queens rapper 50 Cent is just “not feeling this plan.” In a Wednesday Instagram post, the hip hop star wrote: “Where did he come from? Whose friend is this? I’m not feeling this plan. No. I will give him $258,750 and a first class one-way ticket away from NY.”
While Democratic leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former President Bill Clinton have offered congratulatory messages to Mamdani on social media, understanding the optics, they have all stopped short of endorsing the Big Apple mayoral hopeful.
Nearly every liberal media outlet has sounded the alarm: Republicans will pounce on Mamdani’s likely victory and paint him as the new face of the Democratic Party. Of course we’ll pounce. It’s not every day that a majority of voters anywhere would freely elect a socialist.
Citing a Tuesday night social media post from Vice President J.D. Vance that read, “Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social,” Politico warned, “Ahead of a battle in the 2026 midterm elections, the GOP has found its new poster child for the ‘radical left.’”
The GOP faces an uphill battle next year to retain its congressional majority. We will use every tool at our disposal to make that happen. And yes, one of those tools will be Mamdani.
There’s no question that the Democratic Party has drifted leftward over the past decade—a shift that has alienated large segments of its former base, particularly working-class voters. But as national Democrats work to win back those disaffected voters, their New York City counterparts are going all in on an extremist.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has already begun to introduce Mamdani as a radical leftist. In a recent NRCC graphic, Mamdani is pictured with several “friends” whom Politico notes are “three battleground House Democrats who represent districts neighboring New York City, none of whom endorsed him in the primary.”
According to Politico:
One of those Democratic members — Laura Gillen, who flipped a district on Long Island in 2024 — rushed to separate herself from Mamdani.
In a Wednesday morning statement, Gillen called Mamdani “too extreme to lead New York City” and “the absolute wrong choice for New York,” distancing herself from the state lawmaker ahead of what is likely to be a competitive reelection race.
Responding to Jeffries’ congratulatory message to Mamdani on X, the NRCC wrote: “Democrat ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries declared himself brothers in arms with antisemitic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Every single Democrat now owns Mamdani’s radical socialist agenda to defund police, abolish prisons & stop ICE from deporting criminals.”
Democrat 'Leader' Hakeem Jeffries declared himself brothers in arms with antisemitic socialist Zohran Mamdani
Every single Democrat now owns Mamdani's radical socialist agenda to defund police, abolish prisons & stop ICE from deporting criminals https://t.co/Z5lusYzsll
— NRCC (@NRCC) June 25, 2025
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who is widely expected to enter the New York gubernatorial race, tried to tie Mamdani’s candidacy to Gov. Kathy Hochul in a post on X:
Tick tock, tick tock Kathy Hochul…
We know you are in full blown panic mode as you frantically draft and send out the congratulatory tweet to the antisemitic, jihadist, Communist candidate you helped elect in your party’s Democrat primary because of your silence, weakness, and ineptitude. You own this dangerous insanity and are incapable of defeating it.
So next year, New Yorkers will defeat you to save our state.
👀 ⏰ 👀 ⏰
Tick tock, tick tock Kathy Hochul…
We know you are in full blown panic mode as you frantically draft and send out the congratulatory tweet to the antisemitic, jihadist, Communist candidate you helped elect in your party’s Democrat primary because of your silence,…
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) June 25, 2025
Mamdani isn’t mayor—yet. But if he wins, his policies threaten to bring New York City to its knees. Since Tuesday, real estate agents say they’ve been inundated with calls from New Yorkers desperate to get out. Some are already calling it the “Mamdani Migration” — a mass exodus triggered not by rising rents or economic hardship, but by fear of an aggressively left-wing agenda taking root at City Hall. If this is the future of New York, many are deciding they’d rather not stick around to watch it unfold.
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After 25 years, Islam takes NY.
Another spoiled brat raised in privilege turning to communism…shocker.
He is 33 years old and has 3 years of employment under his belt (not counting government work, that never counts). That includes a short lived career as a rapper, and working on mommy’s movie set. These types of people are the worst. Know-nothings who imagine they know it all just because they grew up in privilege.
At least he wasn’t a bartender.
Good Muslims don’t drink [or encourage] the consumption of alcohol.
And the only Good Muslim is…?
Ok bartender at a trendy juice bar. Guess that would be a CA thing.
They will be welcome in the South as long as they leave their politics back in Noo Yuck. Bubba and Earl won’t appreciate some Yankee with a wierd accent telling them they have to give up their hunting rifles.
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DO NOT LET THEM IN!!!
Make them stay in NY. They shit in their nest, they need to stay in their nest.
Zohran Mamdani is the new face of the Democrat Party.
In a press conference a while ago Trump referred to Mamdani as that Communist NY Democrats nominated.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani should not be painted as a radical socialist. He should be regarded as a mainstream Dem who, for whatever reason, has decided not to try to deceive voters as to his intentions. I don’t think his political, social and economic views are much different from many Dems presently in office who say and do things calculated to hide their dislike for Western people, culture and history. Mamdani believes that he can be the Dem Party’s voice for a much more open dislike of regular American culture and people.
He was congratulated by Schumer, Clinton and other Dems. Republicans should put Mamdani in the DEM camp, and not allow a wedge to be driven between him and the Dem Party. The Dem Party should be branded with every radical-leftist statement attributable to Mamdani. Republicans should make him the face of tomorrow’s mainstream Dem Party.
Take “Westside Story” and pen it with Sharia instead. As a rapper, can he equal Ukraine’s glamour boy by also playing piano with his “eleventh finger”?
Very accurate. I wonder if Democrats telling the truth about what they want to do is really acceptable nationwide? I hope not but I can’t really say I am sure. Even ten years ago no, but now?
The d/prog did not ‘drift’ leftward, they willingly sprinted to fully embrace extremist lefty/wokiesta policies. The d/prog own this guy, his candidacy and his commie policy agenda precisely b/c those policy preferences represent mainstream d/prog beliefs. Despite sending congratulatory messages to Mamdani to try and pacify the d/prog base, the d/prog political leadership and officeholders will try and thread the needle to avoid more defections of the few remaining centrist/moderate d/prog.
Yep
This!
As a former dramacrat in my youth I watched the party go farther and farther to the left and their leaders become more and more unhinged, Driving the party this way was identity politics which lead to involvement of large numbers of white liberal entitled Karens and race grifting blacks like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. The embracement of Jackson and especially Sharpton ny the dramacrat establishment may well have been the final straw for me.
First MAGA . now MEFA- Make Everything Free Again.
Both intellectually barren slogans meant to appeal to the uninformed masses.
One has the world’s greatest conman behind so it sadly has been swallowed hook line and sinker by far too many rubes.
Sanders and Warren and AOC are pushing the latter, but so far it hasn’t gotten too far ( or far enough). We’ll see if this guy can do any better. Highly doubtful.
MGLA – Make Grooming Legal Again
Yeah. Like you are some “middle of the road” moderate.
You are a leftist as bad as, if not worse than, Mamdamnit the Marxist.
i mad man
remember he quotes dr mlk jr on capitalism evils
while of course mlk jr lived like a capitalist
but that wont stop the deranged from doing the dirty work that needs to be done to insure wht slavery
Socialists make the mistake of blaming capitalism for the woes of the people living under it. They are mistaken. The problems created under (not “by”) capitalism are caused by human nature. Human nature causes all forms of economics and governance to go askew, leading to the appearance that the economic system or the form of government is at fault. Socialists and communists insist their programs are “perfect” and “ideal.” They may be. But they can never be perfect in application, because the humans running the systems will always muck them up. Same with capitalism and democracy.
Capitalism at least harnesses human nature. It’s natural for people to want to acquire things that are essential to their survival, their comfort, their entertainment, and their enjoyment of life. Capitalism provides a framework within which these desires can be fulfilled. Socialism and communism do not. They work against human nature. This is why capitalism, as awful, terrible, and oppressive as it may be, is still better than anything else.
The most impressive feature of capitalism is that it actually harnesses greed — one of the Seven Deadly Sins –and makes it a force for public good. Smug anticapitalists were content to deride Gordon Gecko without understanding his point, a point driven home in an even slyer manner by Danny DeVito in Other People’s Money, and later, Richard Tweek in South Park.
his polices are already in place
anything he calls for is just being intensified
do we pretend that that is not true so we can feel less guilty? responsible? for it becoming the norm the norm that he seeks
since we have allowed (thanks gop) blue cities to flourish and smaller towns to be inundated with illegals …whats next?
stop publicly funding the public schools and the msm and the corporations
the founding father knew that an informed public was healthy for the nation
but so what
it doesnt mean it has to be publicly funded
stop it now
its the cornerstone of allll the other laws that force people to pay for others healthcare etc etc
IF YOU THINK THAT IS RADICAL
WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE TO BOW TO THE PRAYER CALLS
Be careful with this guy. He has the complete persuasion package including the slogan: Make NY Affordable Again, which sounds suspiciously like MAGA. Cheers –
I suppose after NY is turned in to a wasteland and property values have plummeted because no one wants to move into hell. It will become a cheap place to live.
Only been US citizen for 7 years, and going to mayor of largest city?
Even Soviet infiltration school alumni were never that efficient
Harvard business school will likely do a case study of his rise to fame and glory.
FIFY
In “normal times,” this guy would be the sacrificial flag run up the flagpole. They would “fight like hell” to get him elected, only to see him show poorly because “the voters were not ready for him.” Two years later, the next guy shows up, same uniform, same playbook, half the charisma and IQ… but he slides right in like a ballotful of KY Jelly because “this is old news, this is what the voters want, can’t we just move on.”
This is how Hillarycare turned into Obamacare, Affirmative Action turned into DEI, Total Information Awareness turned into Palantir.
Now to the extent we have left “normal times” and are in the “end times,” this guy wins first time out. At which point, prepare an ark. A bulletproof space ark.
with jewish space lasers
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Finally a Democrat to the Left of AOC. That didn’t take long. Who’s next in the race to out-radical the radicals? Will they find the actual reincarnation of Karl Marx? Stay tuned!
Already found him. He’s in Vermont. He’s been barking for over 20 years, but the Overton Window still hasn’t slid over to where he is.
Kind of hoping the overton window comes crashing down on his head. I really want Bolshevik Bernie to reap the benefits of
ahem…. to continue
I really want Bolshevik Bernie to reap the benefits of his stated beliefs but I think he is too old to experience them.