Bottom line: it’s at least as bad as I feared.
New York City voters, given an admittedly horrible choice of candidates, managed to pick the single worst of them.
Jillean Michaels, writing for London’s Daily Mail, has provided an accurate, therefore truly scary, outline of what New York has inflicted on itself. Here are just a few excerpts:
Mamdani represents something far more dangerous: a strain of politics that fuses radical activism, ideological rigidity, and deeply troubling associations — all packaged as perfectly ordinary governance.
Mamdani was elected in November on the intoxicating sugar-rush of hollow socialist promises: free buses, free childcare, rent freezes, a utopia for the taking.
But strip away the campaign slogans and a very different portrait emerges. It’s one of a man chillingly sympathetic to radical extremism — whose inner circle, family history and personal record reveal a worldview hostile not merely to capitalism, but to Western civilization itself.
Let’s start with his father. Mahmood Mamdani is a prominent academic who, in his 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, offered what can only be described as an intellectual defense of mass murder.
Mamdani’s mother, acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, also has a long, documented history of anti-Western and anti-Israel sentiment.
Though, if Mamdani’s parents raise red flags, his wife, Rama Duwaji, sets off sirens.
On the very day of the October 7 massacre, while the bodies were still warm across southern Israel, Duwaji was on Instagram liking posts that celebrated the slaughter.
In the days that followed, she liked posts branding President Biden ‘Butcher Biden’ and another that dismissed Hamas’s documented sexual violence as a ‘mass [sexual assault] hoax.’
This radical sympathy isn’t merely confined to screens and comment sections. It’s being invited to dinner.
Earlier this month, Mamdani and Duwaji proudly hosted a Ramadan Iftar dinner at Gracie Mansion for Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian national who in 2024 served as chief negotiator of the chaotic anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University. Khalil wasn’t some idealistic student protester.
He was the public face for a group that hailed Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a ‘brave man,’ celebrated the October 7 massacre as his ‘crowning achievement,’ and distributed propaganda glorifying ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ — the official Hamas name for their attack.
The Mayor of New York City provided Khalil with a seat of honor at his dining table and then took to social media to publicly laud his ‘courage.’
This is just a small part of Ms. Michaels’ commentary. I hope you will use the link I’ve provided (here it is again) and read every word. Know what New York City put in Gracie Mansion for four years.
It would be hard to overstate how horrific this mayoral choice is. And he’s got 45 more months to go.
Don’t doubt for a second that it will get worse. And I don’t mean that it will get worse before it gets better – because, with mamdani at the helm, I don’t at all expect it will get any better.
Congratulations, New York City voters. You got what you voted for. Enjoy every minute of it.
