Every time I attempt to spell Zohran Mamdani’s name, my fingers are desperate to spell it “Madmani.” I’m close to just giving in.
It’s starting to look like I’ll get a lot of practice, whatever the spelling.
Madmani — sorry, Mamdani — is solidifying himself as the favorite in what’s essentially a four-way race in New York’s mayoral general election, and right now it doesn’t look like the rest of the field is interested in consolidating against him.
And that’s strange. Or at least it would be strange if you weren’t familiar with the other three candidates opposing Madmani — sorry, Mamdani.
Principally, Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of the Empire State who killed some 15,000 senior citizens by inserting COVID patients into nursing homes. That wasn’t actually his downfall; it’s well within the acceptable realm of destructive public policy to do so. In fact, Richard Levine, the former head of the health department in Pennsylvania, killed some 8,000 senior citizens by doing the same thing, and Levine was promoted to the number two job in the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Of course, Levine wears a dress and calls himself Rachel, which means that in Team Biden’s universe, there is no sin by which he would be disqualified.
Cuomo doesn’t own a dress — that we know about. His sexual exoticism isn’t quite exotic enough to make him bulletproof. And he proved that by resigning as governor under pressure when he hit on a staffer in an oppressively cis manner.
Cuomo found out earlier this year that he can’t sell his brand of soft-socialism with a side of masculinity to the core voting base in the Democrat Party. And he isn’t alone. The incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, is also out of fashion.
Adams’s term in office has been a disaster. Nobody argues with that. The case he can make, of course, is that it’s more Joe Biden’s fault than Adams’s fault, seeing as though he took office just at the time Biden was flooding the country with illegal aliens, and massive numbers of them showed up in New York City.
And when Adams noted that the influx was destroying the resource base of the city and all of its spare cash, he was promptly indicted on what looked very much like spurious charges of corruption.
Most of New York’s voters don’t care about his problems. Adams is mired in the low teens in polling, which shows Madmani — sorry, Mamdani — near 40 percent and Cuomo at 25 or so.
Curtis Sliwa, the former Guardian Angels hero and current perpetual candidate, sits at around 15 percent. His ceiling, as a Republican, is far too low to defeat Mamdani.
Hey, I got it right that time!
And give Mamdani credit, because when President Trump took note of his openly communistic platform — taxing “white” neighborhoods more, city-owned groceries, free bus and subway rides, sending social workers rather than cops into domestic violence situations and other emergencies — and panned it, his response was politically smart. (RELATED: Mamdani Markets Envy to Sell a Marxist Utopia)
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, launched a “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour in the Big Apple on Monday, as President Donald Trump’s agenda takes center stage on the New York City campaign trail.
Mamdani began his anti-Trump tour alongside Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., in Manhattan on Monday morning. He plans to visit Brooklyn on Tuesday, Staten Island on Wednesday, the Bronx on Thursday and Queens on Friday, Fox News has confirmed.
The 33-year-old self-described socialist’s tour is a rejection of the Trump administration’s sweeping second-term agenda and his so-called “authoritarian” attack on working New Yorkers, specifically, immigration and health care reform.
“There is no borough that will be free from Trump’s cruelty,” Mamdani said on Monday. “We will feel the pain of this legislation, whether we are in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens or Staten Island, and we will shine a light this week and every week on the costs of this vision that is coming out of Washington, D.C.”
And here’s an even smarter bit of messaging, shocking that it might be coming from its source…
“Donald Trump is waging a full-scale assault on American democracy, dismantling our institutions, attacking our universities and our scientific research base, using government power to serve himself and his donors, and targeting New York City because New Yorkers have always seen him for what he is — a narcissistic, wannabe dictator,” Nadler said during the event on Monday.
Jerry Nadler is Jewish, and here he is appearing with the guy who runs around talking about “globalizing the intifada.”
Talk about a new state of confusion…
— Jesse L. Guillory (@jguil27) August 11, 2025
It’s utterly bizarre, but the fact that he’s doing it should tell you a couple of important things.
First, when Nadler attaches himself to Mamdani, he’s signaling to Jewish voters, who are 12 percent of the New York City electorate and are overwhelmingly Democrats, that it’s OK to vote for the “globalize the intifada” guy — as crazy a notion as that is.
He’s not actually leading on this subject. This was two weeks ago…
The Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions poll surveyed 1,453 New York City residents between July 16 and July 24. Among Jewish respondents likely to vote in the November mayoral election, 43 percent said they supported Mamdani, compared to 26 percent for Cuomo, his closest competitor who is now running as an independent following his Democratic primary defeat.
Despite his outspoken criticism of Israel and refusal to disavow phrases associated with Palestinian activism, Mamdani outperformed more moderate candidates, including Mayor Eric Adams — who opted to run for re-election as an independent before the Democratic primary — and Republican Curtis Sliwa, among both Jewish and non-Jewish voters.
But second, by making himself the principal anti-Trump candidate, Mamdani is tarring his three opponents as Flying Monkeys For The Orange Man among an electorate with a higher quotient of Trump Derangement Syndrome than practically anywhere else.
Literally all he has to do is scream about Trump and Mamdani will get every New York Democrat from AOC to Chuck Schumer to either line up behind him or run away from the race.
It’s going to work.
It’ll work even if it has to overcome this…
Zohran Mamdani posted another video of himself crying..
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) August 11, 2025
We’re at the point where it’s beginning to set in that the Madmani Era (that isn’t a typo, so you’ll know) will soon begin. Stephen Green heralded it at PJ Media on Monday, and over the weekend, there was this…
George Will on Zorhan Mamdani: “I want him to win. I think every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.”
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 9, 2025
I posted on X that George Will’s take wasn’t particularly helpful…
The problem with this faculty-lounge approach is that it hurts real people.
I don’t get the impression that anything can be done to stop this foreign communist from winning that election, and I can understand the sentiment which holds that from time to time there have to be lessons learned.
But it’s still not something you root for. You don’t want to be out of touch on this level, because what happens as a result is people get the impression you don’t care.
And the faculty-lounge conservatives and Bush Republicans don’t actually care. That’s why they lost the country to Barack Obama before they lost the GOP to Trump. Nobody will vote for you if they know you don’t care.
The only way this can be avoided, it seems, would be for Adams, Cuomo, and Sliwa to join forces behind whichever one they think can win. But even that seems like a bit of a long shot, because for various reasons, New Yorkers hate each of them more than they hate the madman.
Will isn’t really wrong, in that what’s coming could be a teachable moment — painful though it might be.
But the teaching probably comes later.
The desperation, on the part of those who aren’t in need of the tough lesson this foreign theater-kid communist is bent on putting on display, should be setting in now.
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