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New York City voters have elected self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor, and his victory speech immediately signaled a sharp leftward turn for the nation’s largest city.

Moments after being declared the winner Tuesday night, the 34-year-old lawmaker opened his remarks by invoking Eugene Debs, one of America’s most infamous radicals.

Debs was convicted of sedition in 1918 for urging resistance to the U.S. draft during World War I.

“I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,” Mamdani said, quoting Debs.

During post-election coverage on Tuesday night, CNN contributors Van Jones and Scott Jennings didn’t seem particularly happy with mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) angry victory speech. They found it a significant tone-shift from his campaign and believed it would only further divide New Yorkers and the “large tent” Democratic Party.

Left-wing Van Jones’s main takeaway from the speech was a lack of recognition: “I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.”

He also thought some New Yorkers would have a hard time deciding if they fit in with Mamdani’s vision and admitted, “… he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent.”

New York City elected a communist to be its next mayor on Tuesday. Uganda-born Zohran Mamdani is projected to win more than 50 percent of the Big Apple. Over the next few days, professional Republicans will shake their heads and lament the outcome of the race. But few, if any, will acknowledge the truth: Mamdani’s victory is the direct result of mass immigration.

New York City wasn’t lost to a communist because the radical left out-organized the Democrat establishment. New York City was lost to a communist because we lost control of our borders — not just our southern border, but every single border separating the United States from the rest of the world. Mass migration, whether legal or illegal, is national suicide.

It would almost be a funny, hypocritical bit of parody — if it weren’t so darn serious.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, is taking an expected victory lap after his Tuesday night special election win.

(Mamdani beat out independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and distant-third-place Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Former Mayor Eric Adams was also on the ballot, though he had withdrawn from the race prior.)

Mamdani took to X to celebrate his win and announce his initial transition plans.

See if you can find the joke (and no, I’m not talking about his horrifically phony smile) in the clip below:

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work. https://t.co/G7F2sbda74 pic.twitter.com/GQABMqJHgn

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 5, 2025

Was there some sort of cringe-fest competition last night? Because liberals in NYC and all across the country are celebrating the new Muslim mayor-elect, and it’s unclear who outdid themselves.

Firstly, I’m glad that at least some voters have realized they may — or may not — have just turned their city into a so-called “Muslim country.” What’s comical about that is that many of the countries they claim they’d rather move to wouldn’t even allow this kind of dancing on screen. You know, considering they’re women — and many of those countries don’t exactly have what you’d call “women’s rights.” It’s also ironic that many of them wouldn’t even be allowed to vote in elections in those same Muslim countries. But I digress.

Defeated in their efforts to keep an avowed socialist out of New York City’s Gracie Mansion, some Big Apple business leaders are turning to next year’s race for the New York governor’s office.

As news of Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani’s win in Tuesday’s mayoral race sank in, The New York Times reported Wednesday that Wall Street financiers are “already thinking about how they could blunt his most liberal initiatives, turning their attention to Albany, which has the power to block many of his proposals, like raising corporate taxes.”

And that could spell trouble for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Hochul is the Democrat who succeeded now former Gov. Andrew Cuomo when Cuomo resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal and lingering questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(“Lingering questions” is a charitable way to describe accusations that Cuomo’s administration was directly responsible for the COVID deaths of thousands of nursing home patients.)

One day after being elected Mayor of New York City, Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani has announced his all-female “transition team.”

His mayoral transition will be led by five socialist women.

What could go wrong?

Here they are:

Backup here if needed:

Zohran Mamdani announces his mayoral transition leadership team:

All Socialist women pic.twitter.com/My8nIeFmJ3

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) November 5, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, Nicholas Fuentes, and others of their ilk feast on resentment.

That America’s political soil is fertile for this effort isn’t surprising — globalism and fiscal profligacy put the American Dream out of reach for millions, while the decline of faith turned the deadly sin of envy into a virtue.

Faith had largely immunized America to ruinous class envy, as had the abounding visible examples of those who worked hard and made a better mouse trap.

The aim of political systems, insofar as they contend with wealth creation and property, is to do one of three things: to foster a system where all can optimize their individual capacity for making money; to protect those with property from those who want it; or to forcibly redistribute property along politically advantageous lines. The latter two systems — notably feudalism and Marxism — are not concerned with wealth creation, so much as they are with the question of who owns what.