Voters go to the polls Tuesday to pick the Democratic nominee for New York City’s next mayor.
They face a truly awful range of candidates, yet with a duty to stop the worst of the worst: cheap influencer Zohran Mamdani — a babyfaced socialist antisemite who’s never accomplished anything except this so-buzzy campaign.
Democrats must soundly reject him — by leaving him completely out of their five picks on the ranked-choice voting ballot.
Why? It’s not just that Mamdani’s bumper-sticker agenda is repugnant (at best) — with his enmity for police, business, educational standards and everything else that makes this town work, his promises of endless free stuff up to and including trans-gender treatment for minors and his refusal to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada.”
It’s his across-the-board intent to ruin the city in the name of saving it.
Picture a turbocharged Bill de Blasio:
- Like the spike in crime in Blas’ final years? You’ll love how chaos soars under Mamdani.
- Fond of the homeless, crazies and druggies taking over the streets? Zohran’s your man.
- Won over by Blas’ runaway spending — with the ever-higher bill passed to taxpayers? Wait till socialist Mamdani gets to City Hall.
He wouldn’t get everything he wants: tax hikes sure send the wealthy fleeing, a shrinking, overwhelmed police force, housing policies that may collapse the market, schools that fail kids . . .
But his fallback “solutions” will be every bit as bad, and he might get enough to send the city into a death spiral.
Mamdani’s plan for free buses, city-run groceries and taxpayer-funded housing (with no way to pay for it) alone can trigger a monster fiscal crisis.
He doesn’t even pretend to want to address problems in a practical way.
Business leaders are petrified that a socialist may wind up in charge; many are already eyeing the exits.
Yes, we know: The other wannabes are nothing to write home about, especially after so many sprinted left in hopes of rivaling Mamdani’s appeal.
They spent their campaigns attacking President Donald Trump and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, neither of whom is even on Tuesday’s ballot.
Indeed, Democrats furious at his centrist heresies forced Adams to run as an independent, and with the help of power-drunk Campaign Finance Board, which denied him public funds.
Most worrisome: With radicals eager to vote (if they haven’t already) as they smell a chance to grab the nomination, Tuesday’s high temps may keep many normal voters away from the polls.
New York can’t let that happen. After all, ranked-choice voting gives even dangerous screwballs like Mamdani a shot.
Consider Chicago’s buyers’ remorse after electing far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson: A recent poll showed just 7% — seven percent — now view him favorably.
In New York, polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Any registered Democrat who cares about the city’s future needs to brave the heat, get to the voting booth and cast a ballot aiming to ensure Zohran Mamdani gets nowhere near City Hall.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
