I & I Editorial BoardWhen socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral primary, we said that the concern expressed by some Democrats was phony, because they didn’t want to admit just how far left their party had drifted.
Now, they’ve given up that pretense entirely.
On Friday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries endorsed socialist Mamdani, saying the 33-year-old trust fund baby “has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers.”
He’s the most senior-ranking Democrat to do so, but he joins a list that already includes Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James
Jeffries tried to add a caveat that he and Mamdani have “areas of principled disagreement.” But he can’t have it both ways.
Jeffries, and his party, are now officially on board with Mamdani’s socialist agenda, one he hopes to impose on a city that once stood for America’s financial might but will soon become the home base for radical anti-Americanism.
Besides, as we pointed out in this space in July (see: “The Democrats’ Phony Freakout About Mamdani”), party regulators were already on board with even Mamdani’s most radical proposals.
Think about what Mamdani has proposed or supported:
- A yearlong freeze on rent
- A $30 minimum wage
- Free bus service
- City-owned grocery stores
- Defunding the police
- Calling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide.
‘Mainstream Democrats’ support every one of these positions in one way or another.
But now the party has nowhere to hide. Either by silence or outright endorsements of Mamdani, Democrats have let the veil drop. The party of John F. Kennedy is now the party of Karl F. Marx.
And when New York spirals downward in a cesspool of deprivation and hopelessness, as every socialist experiment invariably does, the public should never forget which party caused it to happen.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Great! Like Reagan said: “bold, unmistakable colors, not pale pastels”.
At some point. We the taxpayers will be asked to bail out New York City and it will pass.
We have to win and stop that effort every time it comes up. They only have to win once and it’s paid.
It’s a shame this has to happen-but citizens from all over the country will benefit. Everyone will now see how scrabulous a socialist can make a city. Unfortunately, New Yorkers will not only have to suffer through this alone they will have to show how resilient they really are.
This is no “time out”, baby. No parent or Santa Claus to save you.
Yes, Reality may be a bit… Puberty may also be one. But when Mamdani becomes Mayor we will all plainly see that Socialism is one of the biggest bit…. of all!
And all of us from all over the country will view how tough, hardy and irrepressible New Yorkers really are. Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and LA-you all will now get a second chance.
Thanks to the learning lesson provided by the lamented (but hopefully not late) New York City.
You’d think that the failure of the Soviet Union, of Cuba, of Venezuela, etc., would have done the trick and shown the world what socialism does. I fear, however, socialism is like a virus, and a healthy host like New York will let it spread.
His name should be Fidel Bernie AOC Mamdani.
What a freak candidate, which one political party, ahem, plays deaf, dumb and stupid for all of NYC the dangerous ideology, they are supporting in that candidate.
UPDATE:
It’s Official: The Democratic Party Is Now Straight Up NATIONAL Socialist…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
Everyone in here chirping about socialism in the USA is already a failure when we’ve only ever had socialism for corporations. What has really failed the working class is capitalism, and it has been shown to fail over and over again. People are tired of exploitation, and a ruling class with unlimited funds to spend in our political system should not exist. Take their wealth back – it is all money they took from their workers through exploitation. We can live in a country without billionaires – that will be a great day in the USA.
It’s rich to blame the trouble of the working class on capitalism when it is socialists — mostdy Democrat, but with a good portion of Republicans for good measure — have been slowly socializing America via taxes and regulations, gradually strangling our freedoms.
Billionaires aren’t the problem — although the control freaks they tend to be causes them to drift to the Democrat Party — the problem is the Democrat Party and their belief that they deserve all the power, and it is their right to rule over all the peasant surfs who don’t know how to live their own lives anyway.
The Democrat Party was always the Party of slavery, which is why they are drawn to the Political Philosophy of slavery — which is socialism in all its forms.
YOU DIDN’T print my comment. Reading your stuff is a privilege, NOT a right.
Many dont get it….the very wealthy want this. They laugh knowing it wont effect them. Playing ad-lib to hard left politics. “tax the rich” ho ho they hide their wealth. The Taxes are for Little People Leona Helmsley approach. They snicker all the way to the bank while avoiding paying anything. When Springsteen was caught he actually said “Doesn’t everybody cheat on state taxes?” Free everything make the little people pay.