Inside Mamdani’s


Woke Utopia Freeze rents. Free bus rides for everyone. Increase funding to “hate violence prevention programs” by 800%. Create city-owned grocery stores that will pay no rent or property taxes, buy and sell at wholesale prices from centralized warehouses, and partner with local vendors to keep prices down. Free childcare for every child aged 6 weeks to 5 years. Raise minimum wage to $30 by 2030.


2% tax on residents earning above $1 million annually


and raising the city corporate tax rate to 11.5%. Resist President Donald Trump by strengthening sanctuary city protections, ending cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Send baby baskets to parents of newborns with diapers, baby wipes, nursing pads, postpartum pads, swaddles, books, and local resource guides. Protect abortion rights. Arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever sets foot in New York City.


Mamdani’s election as mayor would be the end of New York, at least for years to come.


this banner, his ticket includes prom- ises to nationalize food shops, force rent rise freezes on already rent-con- trolled apartments, welcome illegal migrants to a city already unable to handle current rates of arrival, make bus travel free for everyone, allow tenants to hold landlords to ransom


and shopworn front- runner. Voters knew the 67-year-old Cuomo as the governor who resigned in 2021 after allegations of sexual harassment and that he’d personally directed a shameful cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. His campaign and TV ads were lifeless. By contrast, Mamdani


was half Cuomo’s age, articulate, and energetic. Given that his mother is the director Mira Nair and


over inspections and other works, and build 200,000 new “affordable, union- built, rent-stabilized” units over the next 10 years. He is going to throw hundreds of


millions at making schools green to further the classic loony credo of “cli- mate justice.”


he worked on a couple of her films, it’s no surprise he produced clever and slick social media ads to amplify an issue — “affordability” — that especially resonated with cost-stressed voters under the age of 30. Mamdani promised


to make city buses and childcare free and institute a rent freeze. He also proposed having the government open its own grocery stores. All of this he proposed


to pay for by hiking taxes on corporations and the top 1% of income-earners, even though those taxpayers already pay 48% of the city’s personal income tax take. As a proud member of


the Democratic Socialists of America, he even proclaimed, “There should not be any billionaires,” and that his Marxist “end goal was to seize the means of production.”


Continued on page 46 It’s all mad. Who is going to fund


all this in a city that now, apparently, hates business, capitalism, and rich people? Mamdani was born after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He should do some reading on socialist “utopias.” Instead of bolstering the police, who


since Floyd have famously retreated, leaving an epidemic of low- and high- level crime unpunished, Mamdani will create a Department of Commu- nity Safety. He was formerly a supporter of the


“defund the police” campaign and is reported as having referred to the New York Police Department as a “rogue agency.” This man should not be mayor. Like so many socialists who hate


Israel, Mamdani — who used to produce rap videos before he became a housing officer in the city — comes from high- falutin academic stock, and the apple does not fall far from the tree. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is


the Herbert Lehman professor of gov- ernment at Palestine-mad Columbia University. Should he be elected, Mamda-


ni will become only the most eye- catching among a breed of political- ly demented city hall heads swiftly ruining great cities. Sadiq Khan is Mamdani’s London


spiritual brother: another woke, leftist mayor hoisting himself high on the phantom specter of endemic Islamo- phobia and social justice. Like Mamdani’s possible New


York, London is weakened by two- tier policing, a sense of unprecedent- ed fear for safety among Jews and women, rubbish-filled streets, endless subway strikes, and pointless environ- mental gestures. Meanwhile rough sleeping, shop-


lifting, and muggings are only getting worse.


Then there is Paris. Ah, Paris.


Truly a once-great, beautiful, and important city which, like London, always put New York as a physical place in the shade. But since its mayor, Anne Hidalgo, took over in 2014, it’s become broke,


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