New Yorkers Choose Socialism

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani won with 50% of the vote.

Stephen Moore: Unleash Prosperity Hotline – Democrats won the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey after nominating two relatively moderate members of the U.S. House and expanded control of their state legislatures.  

Things were so bad in Virginia that voters elected nutcase Jay Jones - who mused about killing his political opponents and desecrating their graves - Attorney General.  It's important to remember that both states trend Democratic. Neither has voted Republican for president in over 20 years.  

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani won with 50% of the vote.

The key to Mamdani's victory was twofold: First, Cuomo was a nincompoop governor who locked down the state's entire economy during Covid and ordered infected patients into nursing homes - a fatal decision which killed scores of elderly residents.  

Second, Mamdani focused his entire campaign on "lowering the cost of living for working class New Yorkers." Too many voters accepted his ideas for government-owned grocery stores and free buses even though they were half-baked and unrealistic - as even the New York Times warned.

For non-New Yorkers, just to give you a sense of how looney-tunes the newly elected mayor is, in his victory speech he quoted from the early 20th century socialist Eugene V. Debs. Now there’s a blast from the past.

New York is anything but a bellwether for American attitudes or leanings. But these election results do illustrate the ever/widening political divide between red state and blue city America. It's a sad day that liberal radicals will now be running our three largest cities - New York, Los Angeles and Chicago - on promises of lots of free things paid for by raising taxes on the richest 1%.

Why not give it a try? It worked so well for Fidel Castro.