Posted on 11/05/2025 7:51:37 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The former White House chief strategist has long preached the idea that populism is the engine of modern politics. And he sees Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City as proof of its staying power — and a sign of the growing anti-establishment force on the left that Republicans would be foolish to ignore.
“Tonight should be a wake up call to the populist nationalist movement under President Trump,” he said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine just after midnight on Wednesday. “These are very serious people, and they need to be addressed seriously.”
Bannon seemed impressed by the Mamdani campaign’s ability to turn out low-propensity voters — “this is kind of the Trump model” — though he branded Mamdani a “neo-Marxist,” rather than a populist. And he is eager to have Trump and his administration battle Mamdani in the days ahead. In a wide-ranging conversation following Democrats’ big wins in New Jersey and Virginia, Bannon also ripped Republicans for their failures, discussed how the GOP can avoid a 2026 midterm rout and laid out what Trump’s immediate next moves should be.
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Astoria, Queens, which AOC represents, used to be working class Greeks. Now almost all Indians and Muslim immigrants. The Great Replacement is completed.
I take the 7-line to the Mets games from Woodside Queens to Citifield...it goes through Woodside, Corona, Flushing- literally the biggest crapholes you have ever scene in your life. And this is an aerial view from the L train....i look at these buildings and wonder how anyone could live in them...and i’m not even ground level where prostitution rings (which ayatollah mamdani will make legal) are out on the open street...
And this is part of her district- yet even as it get worse by the year they continually re-elect her...
I keep saying this. DemoKKKrats ARE PREPPING MAMDANI TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028, Constitution be damned. They will force Rs and/or courts to stop him.
Third world commie immigrants turn places into third world dumps. NYC is trending down, the stock markets are making moves to shift all their datacenters away and have been for a few years. Is NYC immune to what happened to places like Detroit and Philadelphia, chugging along but shadows of their former selves? We'll see. But going full on openly commie won't help.
The lousy education establishment has a big role in it. It taught all the young people the wonders of communism and the evils of capitalism. They are now using the rope the capitalists sold them to hang the capitalists.
Same, many times. Let's have a beer together sometime next season.
Don’t worry. Trump will burn them New Yorkers and Virginians with a really cutting meme cartoon, bomb Venezuela and go on another foreign trip!
That’ll learn ‘em…
I actually eat at Sean Ogs in Woodside before the game ...good old Irish bar with decent food and a hat that says “MAKE WOODSIDE GREAT AGAIN!” hanging over the bottles...
Don’t forget that he’ll have another Great Gatsby party in his new ballroom and give another tour of the Oval Office after he adds more gilt and 200-year-old mirrors so that he can see himself from every angle.
Thomas and Alito need to resign at the end of the term. They will never be replaced by a conservative otherwise. Without Trump on the ballot in 26 and 28 will all look like last night.
Those new folks in 24 were Trump voters. Not GOP.
Why it is high time we have a US version of Britain’s “Reform Party”. The Tories in Britain are dead.
Whatever character it is you wish to show on this community, you occasionally do a great job of shooting yourself in the foot.
Shouldn’t you be over at DU?
Mamdani is being groomed to be the new Obama
The Democrats cleared the decks of any serious opposition to his mayoral run in NYC so he could breeze to victory
He does not care what happens to NYC and he has zero intention of managing or governing. In NYC
He is being groomed to run for President in 2028 which will happen long before his failures catch up with him and people figure out just who and what he is
He will take office in 2026 and his presidential campaign kicks off spring 2027.
His goal is to use his position as mayor to build a national brand as the anti Trump and use NYC a platform and springboard for his 2028 run
Take this guy seriously - he is a leader in the emerging take over of the Democrats party by the radical communist young Turks looking to depose the old guard Democrat liberals tyrants like Schumer and Pelosi
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