Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has a big man crush on Zohran Mamdani, the Islamist communist who won New York City’s Democratic primary, all but assuring he will be the next mayor of the rotting Big Apple.
Murphy believes the 33-year-old Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party.
Murphy is right. The future is now for the party of John F. Kennedy that has been co-opted by Marxist marauders. And if Americans don’t wake up, Mamdani’s brand of radical leftism could well be the future of this exceptional republic. Some chilling numbers give reason to believe that deep blue New York City is not a fluke.
Targeting ‘Richer, Whiter Neighborhoods’
Murphy made the rounds after Mamdani’s big win. On Sunday, he told Kristin Welker, host of NBC News’ Meet the Press, that he hopes “Democrats take some lessons” from the radical’s victory.
“When you are presenting, big, bold ideas on how to do that, you’re going to do pretty well in elections. So Democrats should learn from his victory,” Murphy urged.
The senator is particularly enthralled with Mamdani’s ideas on what to do with Gotham’s economy. Murphy told CNN that the next-generation leftist’s economic message is the “future of the party.” Translation: the future of the party is going all-in on the failed tenets of Marxism. Bernie Sanders-backed Mamdani is the logical next step of the Democratic Party’s growing “Squad” contingent, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who, not surprisingly, warmly endorsed the New York assemblyman in the primary.
The Uganda-born communist is a fervent central planner pitching a litany of free stuff — paid for by the socialist go-to: redistributing other people’s money. One of his more controversial proposals aims to “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
Mamdani wants to freeze rent, create city-owned grocery stores, provide free city busing and childcare, and raise New York’s minimum wage to $30 an hour while “Trump-proofing NYC.”
‘Communist Lunatic’
Mamdani campaigned on defunding the police, the ruinous policy that drove violent crime rates in Democrat-run cities to record levels. And Mamdani is committed to the left’s resistance movement against Immigration & Enforcement officers. In his acceptance speech, the mayoral primary winner vowed to “stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors.”
“Well then, we’ll have to arrest him,” President Donald Trump said this week in response to Mamdani’s threat to break the law. What leftists should know by now is that Trump is committed to enforcing the nation’s immigration laws and holding accountable lawbreakers, including rising politicians with a penchant for grandstanding.
“As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York,” Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social . “Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it ‘Hot’ and ‘Great’ again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!”
‘The War is Here’
Mamdani, who would become New York City’s first Muslim mayor, also has a long history of seething antisemitism. He loosely justified the most violent attack on Jews since the Holocaust, praised the convicted funders of Hamas, and he’s a fan of the Israel-hating “globalize the Intifada” slogan.
In a recent interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Elisha Wiesel, son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, rebuked Mamdani’s defense of the violent phrase.
“American Jews are already in danger. We have a mayoral candidate on the ballot who refuses to condemn the phrase, you know, globalize the Intifada, which is code-switching for kill the Jews. So you have Zohran Mamdani running for office. The war is here. It’s not something fictional and far away,” said Wiesel.
Still, Mamdani won the Democratic Party mayoral nomination in the city with the second-largest Jewish population in the world. His supporters included many Jews.
‘Freedom is a Fragile Thing’
Older guard Democrats are said to be fretting over the implications of Mamdani’s political victory on the battered Democratic Party brand. Lawrence Summers, Treasury Secretary for former Dem President Barack Obama, posted on his X account that he was “profoundly alarmed about the future of the Democratic Party) and the country.”
He should be alarmed. We all should be.
Mamdani is today’s Democratic Party brand in many ways. Look around. From the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles to the DEI and reparations madness in “progressive” policy, the party of big government is growing more radicalized by the day. More and more liberal political leaders hate the country they represent. A new Gallup poll released days before Independence Day found just 36 percent of Democrats are proud to be American.
Thankfully, Americans last November rejected the further turn left and voted for a return to intrinsically American values. Democrats find themselves in a political wilderness these days thanks to their extremely unpopular policy positions. But things are always subject to change.
As Ronald Reagan warned in his 1967 inaugural address as the new governor of a different California, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” There are some very troubling signs on the horizon.
A survey last month conducted for the Cato Institute by YouGov found 62 percent of Americans 18 to 29 report having a “favorable view” of socialism. Another 34 percent think communism is cool.
The numbers have grown over the last decade. A Harvard University poll in 2016 found 51 percent of young adults in the same age category have turned their backs on capitalism. But only 33 percent said they supported socialism.
Is It Any Wonder?
These troubling numbers should’t surprise anyone paying attention. U.S. institutions of higher education have been breeding grounds of anti-American thought for decades. Private and taxpayer-funded schools have drilled into young men and women the leftist dogma of “critical race theory,” politically-motivated beliefs that the United States is a nation of oppressors, white people are innately racist and capitalism is the engine of said oppression.
American universities have also become cesspools of antisemitism, thanks in no small part to the proliferation of the kind of Jew-hating groups that Zohran Mamdani helped organize and lead in his college days. Harvard, in fact, has been found to be “in violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act, according to the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The elite school that predates the United States faces a loss of federal funding if it doesn’t correct its many problems.
“Harvard holds the regrettable distinction of being among the most prominent and visible breeding ground for race discrimination, as the Supreme Court noted in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023). That legacy of discrimination persists with Harvard’s continued anti-Semitism,” a task force letter to the university asserts.
DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — is the new gospel of the leftist-led educational system from pre-school to doctoral programs. Many of the students indoctrinated in this new school have turned away from faith in free institutions, free thought and free speech.
After years of anti-American, Marxist indoctrination is it any wonder that an Islamist communist could soon be the mayor on New York City?
As we near the 250th birthday of this land of liberty, Ronald Reagan’s admonishment rings ever true. Freedom “is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
