As each successive, appalling revelation about socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani emerges, rational minds want to convince themselves that it finishes him. Surely there's no way the people of that once great city will elect a virulent antisemite, Muslim terror-sympathizer, right?
And if we were living in a rational time, one where the masses were even remotely interested in the general welfare of their fellow man rather than self-catering tribalism, one where a majority of people thought rather than felt their way into the voting booth, I would agree. But we are not living in such a time, and I would argue that barring something dramatic happening in the race, Mamdani is the next mayor of NYC.
What would that mean for the Big Apple? Precisely what it has meant for Philadelphia:
What it has meant for Chicago:
What it has meant for Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined hordes of protesters Monday as they attempted to disrupt an ICE raid on a reported MS-13 hangout… Immediately following the agents' operation, Bass arrived at the park and attempted to speak to ICE officers. Responding to a reporter, Bass said, 'They need to leave and they need to leave right now … because this is unacceptable!'
The numb-skulled antics of Mayor Bass would be comical if they weren't so dangerous. Just last week Bass was complaining about how much money the federal government was spending on removing illegal immigrant gangs in her city. Seriously:
I could be wrong, but I actually don't think Bass is smart enough to know better. I don't think it even dawns on her that her complaints about the housing, jobs, and healthcare strains being felt by her citizens are the direct result of the illegal immigration crisis she pretends doesn't exist. I don't think she gets how the extraordinary measures being taken by the current administration are the necessary clean-up provoked by the extraordinary dereliction of duty committed by the last administration. Somehow the people of Los Angeles have elected a leader less informed than Tomi Lahren:
When it comes to social commentators, Lahren often fails to impress. But she's bombing pretty close to the target on this one. Mayor Bass doesn't realize that the ICE raids are saving her city, and potentially her own political career, from herself.
To a certain extent, that's unfortunate. In one sense, it's always poetic justice when leftist voters are treated to the disastrous policy that they voted for when electing people like Bass, Mamdani, Lightfoot, et al. But the "you made the bed, now lay in it" mentality is not only petulant, it's also condemning some of this country's great metropolitan strips to the grave.
None of us should want that, and to his credit, I don't believe President Trump wants it either. It's why his vow to "keep his eye" on mayors like Mamdani (should he be elected) don't set off tyrant alarms in my brain. No, I don't think Mr. Trump is a constitutionalist, and yes, I think he has authoritarian impulses - you can't be a real estate executive your whole life and not enjoy unilateral decision making. But his posturing towards Mamdani and Bass seems motivated by a genuine concern over the direction they deign to lead millions of American citizens.
Still, the solution to the burgeoning calamities in our nation's cities cannot be increased federal oversight and intrusion. The Constitution doesn't permit it, and it isn't sustainable anyway. The solution must be a reawakening of civic virtue, and a resurgence of urbanity among our people.
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