‘Mamdani the Commie’ — why Trump’s tag will stick – Latest News
Zohran Mamdani needs to have his cake — freshly baked at his native government-run grocery store — and eat it, too.
The 33-year-old son of a Columbia professor and an acclaimed filmmaker has made the transition from unknown state assemblyman to New York City mayoral frontrunner by using a wave of enthusiasm for his unapologetic, far-left agenda.
But now that he has to close the deal in a common election, he’s desperately attempting to melt his stances.
After Mamdani’s triumph final week, President Donald Trump marveled “It’s finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line” — then deemed the political wunderkind a “100% Communist Lunatic.”
Mamdani objected to the label during a Sunday morning interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, to whom he insisted he’s merely “fighting” for “working people.”
“When we talk about my politics, I call myself a democrat socialist,” he added.
And as a matter of course, the pseudoscientific skilled fact-checking industry erected to help the Democratic Party swung into movement to back him up.
“Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathizers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans. It is a red scare tactic that has existed in US politics for decades,” asserted PolitiFact beneath the headline “Zohran Mamdani is favored to win NYC mayoral primary. Claims he’s a communist are False.”
Rolling Stone slobbered over Mamdani’s interview with Welker, lauding him for having confronted “Trump’s misinformation.”
Al-Jazeera, the Qatari-owned propaganda manufacturing unit with a robust curiosity in Mamdani’s success given his virulently anti-Israel views, reprinted PolitiFact’s thinly veiled contribution to his marketing campaign.
Unfortunately for Mamdani and his media allies, there aren’t enough semantic tips in existence to make up for his own damning phrases.
PolitiFact insists that “Mamdani’s platform is not akin to communism, a system of government which calls for government takeover of private property and control of industry.”
But in 2020, Mamdani rebuked the Democratic Party for stating that “the Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants.”
He pushed back in response: “If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production.”
In a 2021 tackle to the Young Democratic Socialists of America that he probably now needs he might erase, Mamdani took off the masks utterly — and recognized his ‘“end goal” as “seizing the means of production.”
In different phrases, he hopes to see the instruments and sources used to supply items and providers in America forcibly reallocated to the working class.
Just like the Bolsheviks did back in 1917, or the Cubans in 1959.
Are we to be impressed that he’s not overtly calling for the mass homicide sanctioned by Lenin or Castro?
Is that the supposed distinction between communism and Mamdani’s model of “democratic socialism”?
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Then again, Mamdani doesn’t seem to acknowledge that distinction when he’s not attempting to dodge the political traps he’s set for himself.
After all, he celebrated the anniversary of the Russian Revolution — which gave technique to the institution of the Soviet Union — with approving tweets in each 2023 and 2024.
And in 2020, he previewed his own mayoral run by posting that the Big Apple needed a mayor like 21-year-old Arya Rajendran, a member of the Communist Party of India, including a hyperlink to a hammer-and-sickle-bearing social gathering account that dubbed her “comrade.”
As if that wasn’t enough to make “Mamdani the Commie” stick, contemplate: According to Marxist principle, socialism is simply a stepping stone on the technique to communism.
“Communist society passes through two phases of development: the lower phase known as socialism, and the higher phase known as communism,” explains an archived textbook from the Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences.
“Socialism and communism are two stages of maturity of the new communist form of society.”
So Mamdani’s touting of socialism — even in its supposedly kinder, gentler, democratic kind — isn’t some sort of rebuttal to the communist charge.
It’s an admission to it.
Democrats in politics and the press know that ought to he prevail in November, Mamdani will nearly mechanically turn out to be a energy participant as their social gathering’s freshest new face.
The ascendant, energetic, traditionally illiterate Democratic base is totally on board with these city-owned grocery shops, nonetheless more price controls on rent, free transit and childcare, and a minimal wage of $30 an hour.
But the common voters acknowledges Mamdani’s agenda as a Great Leap Backward into an amoral, statist society.
Mamdani and his Pravda-esque mates in the Fourth Estate need to make that leap whereas denying ever having left their toes.
Isaac Schorr is a workers author at Mediaite.
