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Posted on 09/27/2026 8:56:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment.
On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left — and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the Democratic Socialists of America.
“I think this will absolutely translate on a national level,” Mamdani said.
Amanpour noted that other Democrats still believe national races reward moderates, and that local energy is one thing, but winning the country is another. Mamdani answered by recasting New York’s cost-of-living crisis as a national mandate.
“While we are an exceptional city, as the greatest city in the world, we also know that the struggles that New Yorkers are facing are the struggles that working-class Americans are facing across the country,” he said.
He continued, “I often say that there’s only one majority in this country, it’s the working class. And their inability to afford housing, childcare, even public transit, that is something that goes beyond any one city.”
Mamdani then pointed to the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt, arguing that people said the same thing then: it could never work nationally. In his telling, the Democratic Party was once “synonymous with workers” and popular because of it. The implication is obvious. He wants that party back — or rather, a DSA-shaped version of it.
He also claimed New Yorkers care less about how he labels himself than “whether there’s room for them in that description,” accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of talking about him to dodge “current federal policy,” and said “to find ambition in the Democratic Party, we often have to look to history books.”
This is the same argument Mamdani has been making since his slate smashed New York’s Democratic establishment in June. After candidates he backed knocked out incumbents and seized safe House nominations, he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that a democratic socialist “can get elected anywhere across this country for any position.”
He talked then about “a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but, frankly, by Americans from coast to coast.” The June winners — including DSA members Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, plus progressive Brad Lander — ran on tax-the-rich politics, attacks on Israel, and, in several cases, abolishing ICE. In deep-blue New York districts, that was enough.
Republicans have already treated the results as a gift. Johnson said after the sweep: “The Democratic party, the socialists, the Marxists, have nominated some of the most radical candidates to ever run for office, and they’re running for Congress. The insurgent left is on the rise.”
Mamdani now wants that rise treated as proof the rest of America is waiting for the same program.
A CNN poll in late July found about a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. They skew younger. They are more eager to yank the party left. They are nearly twice as likely as other Democrats to want that shift on policy. Nearly half of them would be enthusiastic about a candidate who wants to cut U.S. support for Israel, compared with 20 percent of non-socialist Democrats.
Among those expressing an opinion, nearly all viewed Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez favorably. Most Democratic-aligned adults said they would at least be “OK” with nominating a democratic socialist. The center of gravity inside the party has moved. Mamdani is not inventing that. He is trying to nationalize it.
Moderate leftists, such as Bill Maher, are warning that the far left has completely taken over the Democratic Party.
“We already know what he is because it’s in his own statements and the people he hires,” Maher said. He pointed to tenant advocate Cea Weaver, who said “let’s elect more communists.” Maher’s verdict: “Look, this is not like something you have to really figure out. ‘Elect more communists.’ That’s a communist.”
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How long until New York’s economy and citizen flight become a cautionary tale too big for the MSM to ignore?
He’s counting on the Dopamine Vote
LOL...“there’s only one majority in this country, it’s the working class”
If everything is free in Socialist Utopia, why would anybody work for a living? The inherent self-contradictions are hilarious.
There are a lot of good drugs out there and Mamdani has a copious supply.
This country is under full blown attack. Socialists, communists, islamists, they are all gaining steam. I don’t remember it ever being this bad. What have we allowed to fester inside our borders? I can’t believe this multi pointed threat isn’t a national conversation. Once Trump is gone i fear we are totally doomed. Who else on the right has the gravitas to take on this threat head on? I don’t see anyone.
The MSM has to be replaced, from the ground up. They are way too compromised.
How hard would you work each day if you knew that your efforts would never translate into a better life for you and your family, and that you would live just like the grifters who don’t work?
India could offer the H-1Bs 10% income tax rates.
The US tech workforce could largely disappear.
A majority of Americans of European stock have to put up with socialist thievery, but our replacements don’t.
Make sure your young ones know a foreign language and acquire a skill another country would want.
I can’t believe this multi pointed threat isn’t a national conversation. Once Trump is gone i fear we are totally doomed.
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You’re correct. Trump blocked the absolutely insane Hillary Clinton, giving people a few years to prepare for the collapse of the United States.
We need Trump to be a Pinochet right now.
Most of us live our lives in a rather restricted geographical area.
About 90% of my time is spent on my 5/8th acre property.
Over 95% of my time is spent in my neighborhood.
Over 98% of my time is spent within 1/4 mile of US41 (not more than 15 miles away).
The average cost of annual health care cost coverage for a family is more than half the value of the construction materials for Casa Griffin.
The debt of the federal government per American citizen is three times the cost of construction materials for Casa Griffin.
Kinda glad I’m old...I fear for my grandkids....
Businesses aren’t fleeing New York — quite the opposite.
Office rents in Manhattan have gone parabolic with very low vacancy rates, and there’s 3 million square feet in the development pipeline give or take, for which multi-floor bidding activity is torrid. Apartment rents are up too - while they’re falling in much of the country, including lots of otherwise prospering metros. Home prices in the suburbs are holding tight despite massive increases in mortgage rates.
Mamdani isn’t even really a distraction. As long as NY is the place smart people around the world want to go, businesses are going to follow.
Not if America retains it’s Free Constitutitonal Republic!!!
> The insurgent left is on the rise.
Gee, it’s a good thing my local outdoors store is running a sale on centerfire rifle ammo right now. Just stocking up for deer season, y’know.
The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money — Margaret Thatcher.
It might not be a real socialist uprising, but rather, the Democrat left asserting its dominance over the left-behind after the moderates fled the party in 2024.
-PJ
“”If everything is free in Socialist Utopia, why would anybody work for a living? The inherent self-contradictions are hilarious.””
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Calling it “self-contradictions” is giving them way too much leeway and credit. Call it what it is. Blatant lies, intended to fool enough of the ignorant masses to get them to vote for their own demise by voting for muzzie and socialist Democrats. The Democrats have been practicing “taqiyya” for a generation or more.
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