Posted on 11/07/2025 2:27:53 PM PST by Rummyfan
William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. New York City is about to be governed by the Columbia University student body. A city that used to think of itself as grown up has just elected a mayor who seems the very embodiment of the American college student: uninformed, entitled and self-important, enjoying a regal quality of life that depends parasitically upon a civilization about which he knows nothing, yet for which he has nothing but scorn.
American college students regularly act out little psychodramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets and associate vice-provosts of inclusion and belonging. Zohran Mamdani, the quintessential product of the academy, is poised to take such performative grievance to one of the biggest stages in the world. The results will not be pretty.
Mamdani’s governing agenda reflects his family background, education and negligible post-college career. Now 34, he was born in 1991 to a professor of postcolonial studies and a filmmaker. The family moved to New York City from Uganda in 1999 so that Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, could teach in Columbia University’s Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department and direct the university’s Institute of African Studies. The young Mamdani imbibed academic anti-westernism at the family dinner table, which hosted such leading lights of postcolonial studies as Columbia’s Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi.
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And it’s the New Yorkers’ own faults.
I believe that Mayor of New York City is Mamdani’s very first job.
I hope someone takes him aside and tells him “We usually start at 9 and work through to 5. Just an hour for lunch, okay?” As someone who has never worked before, he may need that kind of hand-holding.
Will he take a break five times a day?
We’ve seen this movie before
Democrats will eventually have enough power in DC, to bail-out NY City (and other broke leftist cities that are their social-engineering Petri dishes) with $hundreds of billions in Fed.gov debt and transfers
And spineless GOP goobers will go along with it.
I believe that Mayor of New York City is Mamdani’s very first job.
Nope, he worked for his Mom ,LOL
I don’t think there’s enough money in DC to cover the massive amount of money he’s about to blow through
As Rush said after Obama was immaculated, “I hope he fails”.
He won’t be running the city any more than the POTATUS ran the country.
The people who installed them both will be...
News flash - The majority of democrat cities are already run by commies.
Example - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is a member of the DSA. His current approval rating is 6%. He needs 200 bodyguards to stay in office.
i think he was in ny state assembly
Their power stems from the fact that they make it impossible for good people to oppose them by running for office.
He won’t be running the city any more than the POTATUS ran the country.
The people who installed them both will be...
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Hussein Obama will be involved.
Well said.
Somehow Mamdani must have missed the fact that the USA was once a colony not a colonial power.
...as compared to the excretions from Harvard University.
Yep...bet VJ is a close advisor
Ah, Columbia University, Obozo’s Alma Mater, and a premier notorious U.S. Communist breeding ground.
Started to listen to Buckley when I was in the 7th grade.
One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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