The Smile that Ate the City: The parable of Mamdani

American Thinker ^ | 23 Nov, 2025 | Oleg Atbashian

[MtnClimber]

The smiling Zohran Mamdani lookalike in the series poster is actually Adam, a gifted sociopath and pathological liar who prostitutes himself to rich old men he hates, then worms into wealthy families and methodically wrecks them from within to avenge “capitalism’s unfairness.” The facial resemblance and the smile are purely coincidental. Or are they?

I just finished watching Malice on Amazon (6 episodes, 2 nights). Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it as a parable for how we keep ending up with Mamdani types atop the power pyramid.

Propelled by the “eat the rich” mindset, a charming tutor or nanny infiltrates a wealthy family, wins their trust, then systematically sabotages Dad (Duchovny) and the kids — class revenge cosplay in a five-star setting.

The Greece getaway and glossy wealth porn are the bait. The switch is gradually engineered “equity”: arrests, career hits, family fractures. Malice marketed as justice.

But Adam’s motive isn’t justice so much as a nurtured grudge dressed up as morality. In his case, his father’s collapse becomes a permanent permission slip for revenge (see Obama’s Dreams from My Father and other anticolonialism drivel). It doesn’t even need to be personal — any abstract “unfairness” will do, provided the target is prosperous enough to deserve it (as in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione).

The show leans hard into our politics-by-resentment moment: it’s White Lotus meets Ripley, but with less in the way of brakes and more rhetoric.

[Ann Archy]

Muslims CONQUER!! They DO NOT ASSIMILATE!

[skinny old man]

Yo mamdamni ESAD