NYC mayoral debate exposed Zohran Mamdani as man who has never dealt with reality

Finally, Zohran Mamdani had to face some difficult questions.

At this week’s final Mayoral debate, the gloves finally came off. Why does Mamdani think he can run this city when he couldn’t even turn up for work when he was in the legislature? Why does he think he can be a representative for the poor when he awarded himself the biggest pay-rise any representative has ever received? How can he present himself as a “progressive” when he spends his time palling around with politicians in his native Uganda who actually persecute and imprison people for being gay?

Those were just a few of the questions that came up this week—not only from Mamdani’s chief opponent in the race, Andrew Cuomo, but also from the moderators.

By any normal standards, recent days should have been a disaster for candidate Mamdani. How can someone seek to run this city when they have been tied to someone involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?

I know that Mamdani and his family weren’t living in this country when the World Trade Center was first attacked. And I know he wasn’t a citizen of the United States until years after the 9/11 attacks. Yet, even if he has no memory of the terrorist attacks, the city still does.

In any ordinary season, Mamdani’s associations, never mind his policies, would have been a dealbreaker. But as everyone knows, this is a very abnormal season. Mamdani is hoping to sail into office by just flashing his sweatily ingratiating smile and presenting himself as reasonable. Meanwhile, anyone with even the slightest nose for a faker can spot him from blocks away.

“How is Mamdani going to pay for free bus rides in New York?” the moderator asked. Mamdani smiled joyfully, as though he had been waiting eagerly to answer this question.

He claimed that free bus rides would reduce assaults on bus drivers. Exactly why there would be fewer attacks if everyone could ride for free was not made clear.

The moderator pressed on. “Where would Mamdani find the $700 million his scheme would cost?”

Eventually, Mamdani admitted the truth: New Yorkers could get free bus rides because they would pay higher taxes.

Brilliant. What a scheme.

When Mamdani went on the offensive, he tried to paint Governor Cuomo as “Donald Trump’s puppet.” Of course, the President hasn’t endorsed anyone in the race. But Mamdani hoped that even mentioning the “T” word would drive voters to his own side.

Which was strange because the main stunt Mamdani pulled on Wednesday night was a move he stole from President Trump. The big “reveal” was that he had brought along to the audience one of the women who made allegations against Governor Cuomo in 2021.

Mamdani didn’t bother to note that the claims were significantly dismissed in the courts. Nor did he mention that this stunt was simply a copy of Donald Trump’s famous ambush of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential debates, when Trump turned up with the women who had made allegations against Bill Clinton.

But perhaps we shouldn’t expect Mamdani to have any original ideas for his debate stunts. After all, he doesn’t seem to have any other original ideas.

Anyone who has ever watched a socialist try to slide into political office in any country will recognize the trick Mamdani is trying to pull. During the race, socialists like him present themselves as concerned only about justice and fairness. They make promises of all the free stuff people will get and are said to have a right to have. And so they sidle into office, full of promises they know they can’t keep.

And when they get in? Well, that’s when you get the real glimpse into their character—or lack thereof. It is only after victory that socialists reveal their true nature. They reveal that they aren’t interested in justice; they are interested in revenge. They aren’t interested in giving out free things; they are interested in taking things—principally cash—from the public.

They hold themselves out as champions of the poor, but in office, their only achievement is to make everyone poorer.

Are New Yorkers really going to fall for this?

It seems amazing to think that this city could vote in such a candidate—a man who is not just unqualified, but entirely unsuited to the job of Mayor.

A lot of people I speak to know that Mamdani will be a disaster for this city. But then, in the next breath, many tell me that they’re not intending to vote because their vote somehow won’t count.

Well, that depends on you. And it depends on all New Yorkers.

If people use their vote, the city can still be saved. If they think they can sit this one out, then they only have themselves to blame for what will come.

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### No Kings and No Clue

Have you ever seen a sadder display than the “No Kings” protests last weekend?

I happened to wander into one of them and wondered what the participants were smoking.

There are plenty of criticisms people can make. But why do people have to invent things? Why do they have to pretend that going after criminals who have broken into the U.S. illegally and committed crimes here actually constitutes an attack on all ethnic minorities?

Why do they have to pretend that the President’s efforts to clean up the crime-ridden streets of many American cities is fascism? Why do they have to pretend that a commitment to law and order expresses a desire to be a monarch?

Watching the protesters last weekend, I couldn’t help thinking again how parts of the left in this country seem intent on inventing literal bogeymen.

It’s like the women who dress up as characters from *The Handmaid’s Tale* and pretend that the U.S. government wants to take control of their wombs.

Why not run against some real problems instead of protesting against invented ones?
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