Posted on 07/19/2025 7:15:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
No, Donald Trump’s claim that New York City mayoral candidate’s platform is akin to communism is false, experts say.
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old who soared to the lead in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary, describes himself as a democratic socialist. But some politicians and social media posts falsely labelled him a communist.
President Donald Trump called Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic”, in a June 25 Truth Social post.
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It certainly looks like it, but notice that we are saying “communist,” not “Communist.” For a very long time, the debate was over whether someone was a member of a Communist Party loyal to Moscow (or Peking or Belgrade or Tirana or Havana or Hanoi). Now it’s about whether someone favors replacing capitalism with a post-capitalist system without private ownership.
Is Mamdani a Marxist? He’s more of one than a lot of people who’ve been called that here, and he may even literally be a Marxist.
Islam is rooted in tribalism. Tribalism is a communal political structure which is why Africans yield readily to old Russian rhetoric.
From the massive communist failures in tribalism we can better understand what happened to Africa and it’s appeal to African Americans.
Just an opinion.
And there’s a 99.9% chance he’ll be the next mayor of NYC.
Very.
Indeed.
Agreed. Mad Mo was in the same league of wickedness as Caligula and Adolf Hitler.
Exactly, it’s a path and we know where it leads…..
This is like claiming that a pedo is in reality a MAPerson.
Typical commie trash corruption of verbiage.
All collectivist polities are the same. ALL of them.. One kills you with a thousand cuts, the other breaks into your home and disappears your family.
In the modern USA, there are makers and takers.
The Democratic Party is loaded with vote-buying thieves, and quite a few wannabes.
I dislike fact checks as much as polls. They are both designed to make outright lies look like the truth, or visa versa.
It’s not illegal to be a communist.
Mamdani tells you the way he would steal and cheat to pay for votes.
Vote buying [tip & overtime carve outs] has even come to the highest level of the Republican Party. But Trump is not advocating stealing to buy votes.
But still very like a Communist.
Short version: He's a Democrat.
I say, no.
Communism only exists in the pages of (two) books.
This is a similar dodge to what they tried to pull with Kamala. When Trump’s ad showed her advocating for taxpayer-funded tranny surgeries for criminals and illegals, Dems said “well, she’s not advocating for that during THIS campaign, so it does’t count.” So Mamdani can be on video advocating for the abolition or private property, or the proletariat seizing the means of production or whatever, but as long as that happened 5 minutes before his campaign for mayor started, in their eyes it doesn’t count, and he’s “not a communist.” Of course, if a conservative said something they don’t like 50 years ago, its always relevant. But as I always say, if they didnt have double standards, the Dems wouldnt have any standards at all...
Agree, and they nothing but straight up denials, not facts.
That's why it's a coin toss as to whether America lasts more than a generation. Post-Trump America might resume its descent into insanity with a vengeance. Or it might sustain itself with another patriot POTUS. 50/50
In a recent interview he noted that one of his goals was to “seize the means of production” but there were other things that were easier to do.
Is the Pope a Catholic? Dumb a$$.
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