There are many significant events going on nationally and internationally right now that deserve our attention. However, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to share a recent development in New York City.
Democrat primary voters in NYC just sent Zohran Mamdani, an avowed, self-described socialist, to the runoff election in that city’s Democrat mayoral primary. I would say that I was surprised by this development but, unfortunately, I am not.
He is a doozy.
He has called repeatedly for “globalizing the intifada.” Although Mamdani has tried to explain this statement away as meaning nothing more than a desire for Palestinian “equality and human rights,” it is actually a call for violence against Jews. In short, he sincerely believes Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
An even cursory review of the history of Palestinian intifadas reveals the real meaning behind “globalizing the intifada.” As described by the Wall Street Journal, “… beginning on Sept. 28, 2000, and continuing for almost 5 years, Palestinian suicide bombers and other militants associated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried out 140 terrorist attacks within Israel. The second intifada took the lives of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians and seriously wounded thousands more.”
Sickening.
The Palestinian apologists in the national media are trying to protect and soften this image of Mamdani but there is no honest way to do so. WSJ closes with the piercing observation that “those blowing themselves up on Israeli buses and in food markets, gasoline stations, hotels, cafes, and restaurants weren’t acting to advance ‘human rights.’ They did what they did to terrorize and murder Israeli Jews.”
Globalizing intifada means bringing this violence everywhere, including New York City. What is hardest for me to understand is that one of America’s most prominently Jewish cities is likely going to elect a communist Muslim who hates Israel and Jews. Remember on 9-11, 2001, NYC told the world “We will never forget.” Sadly, today, 9-11’s Ground Zero is about to elect a Muslim jihadist. Mamdani’s supporters are not primarily Jews, blacks, or Hispanics. They are largely white elites with college degrees making over $100,000 a year.
That alone is enough to shock the conscience but that is not all.
Mamdani, among his socialist programs, wants to raise the minimum wage to $30-an-hour, provide free bus rides, create city-owned grocery stores and further tax already highly-taxed businesses and individuals. He will also coddle and free criminals, defund the police, and replace them with social workers.
This is where the national Democrat Party is, and who it is. Long gone are the traditional liberal versus conservative battles between the two major parties. The national Democrat Party has become the party backing the socialist worldview of AOC and Bernie Sanders—who was in Shreveport recently on his Fight the Oligarchy tour—which is hilarious given he is the embodiment of the rich white oligarch he professes to oppose.
This is the face of the national Democrat Party. If there are any moderate Democrats left—I make an exception for U.S. Sen. John Fetterman from Pennsylvania—they are invisible. What should concern the national Democrat Party is that this very same radical, Woke view that benefitted Mamdani in the NYC mayor election was soundly rejected by the majority of voters last November 5th with the resounding election of President Trump.
One interesting point is that former New York governor Andrew Cuomo—who was expected to perform far better than he did, if not run away with the race—was a victim of his own past governance, including his Covid disaster. In fact, the big cities in the country like Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City are all run by Democrats, and they are all overwhelmed with crime, homelessness, and an exorbitant cost of living. As a result, the frustrated New York population voted for Mamdani.
I think what we’ve just seen from NYC voters is a strong repudiation of the Leftist policies that have put the City in the shape it is in. The problem—I think those same voters will soon discover—is that the flashy Mamdani is just like, and an even more egregious example of, what they are trying to reject.
As an American, Mamdani’s rise in our nation’s most prominent city disturbs me. What should disturb national Democrats is that they are all going to have to answer for his insane, left-wing views.
Shreveport attorney, Royal Alexander, worked in D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly 8 years for two different Members of Congress from Louisiana.