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George Will Reveals His Jaw-Dropping Take on NYC's Zohran Mamdani to Bill Maher: "I want him to win"
Red State ^ | 08/09/2025 | Nick Arama

Posted on 08/09/2025 9:52:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Once upon a time, George Will was a conservative.

I'm not sure what he is anymore after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden. Even if he didn't want to vote for Donald Trump, voting for Biden seems like a denial of everything he was before. It's certainly not a conservative position.

But what he said on Friday on HBO's "Real Time" with Bill Maher was in some ways even more surprising than that.

Maher and Will were talking about Democrat NYC mayoral race nominee, Zohran Mamdani. Maher went hard against Mamdani, saying he says "the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free grocery stores, free buses." But it was Will's response that was surprising... when he said he wants Mamdani to win.

George Will on Zorhan Mamdani: "I want him to win. I think every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again."

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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 9, 2025

"Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again," Will argued. He continued:

Socialists' slogan used to be, 'workers of the world, unite,' 'you have nothing to lose but your chains.' The new socialist slogan is, 'Trust us, this time it won't be a mess.' So, you know, when the post-war labor government in Britain was about to get started, one of their leading lights was a socialist named Aneurin Bevan.

He said, 'What could go wrong?' He said, 'We have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish. It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either.'

In three years, they had a shortage of both. That's socialism.

I understand his point, that he thinks it will teach people who don't understand now. 

The problem is that if Mamdani wins, it means a lot of suffering, and not just for the people in New York. Because of New York's importance, it's going to lead to more leftism infecting and hurting people. And it's silly to think it would be "confined." It's like a virus - if you let it live, it spreads. 


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We don't need another example of socialism's failure - we already have had plenty of examples. When it fails again and they don't give up power, then what? It's real people, it's not just an esoteric "experiment" without consequences. Mamdani and others would argue away the bad results as the fault of someone else, just as we saw Biden do. People on the left will believe it, just as they fall for whatever pablum the left pushes now. 

Wanting Mamdani to win is similar to voting for Biden rather than Trump - a bad idea all around and not well thought out. 

We have to fight radical leftism's rise whenever it rears its ugly head. 

Idiotic. Obviously doesn't live in New York. https://t.co/7NxKFj29Uk— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 9, 2025

This is like trying out “just a little bit” of glioblastoma, and the total destruction of New York City is not a faculty lounge thought experiment.@WCdispatch_ @ConceptualJames— dcbsky (@dcbsky) August 9, 2025

Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani is an avowed Democratic Socialist and has a real chance to become the next mayor of New York City.


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1 posted on 08/09/2025 9:52:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So, he is saying that if Mamdani wins, it will cause a lot of people to remember how bad socialism is?


2 posted on 08/09/2025 9:54:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

The problem with that is that the socialists learn from their failures and strategize how to keep power. As resiliant as America is, there will come a time when they will have created the conditions where they win permanently.

I understand about hard lessons being the best teacher


3 posted on 08/09/2025 9:56:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: Jonty30
Russia never learned their lessons from their Soviet regime.

Certainly, we don't want that crap here in USA.

4 posted on 08/09/2025 9:57:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

Basically. Rich Californians are now finding out how quick the totalitarian government they were using to keep poor people out of their neighborhoods is now being used against them by losing their property in the Palisades.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 9:58:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llWwvlymAwk&pp=ygUVU2VpbmZlbGQsIGdlb3JnZSB3aWxs


6 posted on 08/09/2025 9:58:13 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t necessarily disagree with George’s take here.

But at the same time, I have a feeling Mamdani won’t be as “socialist” as people think. He just said it to get elected, and will end up just being the typical liberal in the end.


7 posted on 08/09/2025 9:58:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They never left their serfdom.


8 posted on 08/09/2025 9:58:52 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Couldn’t George point to other urban hellholes run by Democrats now and simply say, “If you like that, then you’re gonna absolutely love Mamdani!”


9 posted on 08/09/2025 9:59:20 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, George-Idiot-Will. People never learn from the failures of socialism. They’ll once again say “NEXT time we’ll just do it right, and it will be great.”


10 posted on 08/09/2025 9:59:43 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: SeekAndFind

Did we not get that lesson from Obama?


11 posted on 08/09/2025 10:03:52 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, George-Idiot-Will. People never learn from the failures of socialism. They’ll once again say “NEXT time we’ll just do it right, and it will be great.”


12 posted on 08/09/2025 10:05:08 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Jonty30
Nathan Bedford's fourth maxim:

Failed socialism begets more socialism.


13 posted on 08/09/2025 10:06:15 PM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: SeekAndFind
George Will comes from the era of Republican "winning by losing."

-PJ

14 posted on 08/09/2025 10:07:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind
"Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again," Will argued.

Isn't that what we have San Francisco and LA for?

15 posted on 08/09/2025 10:10:07 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: dfwgator

At least, we can hope he’s just another libtard who is all talk and no action.


16 posted on 08/09/2025 10:11:42 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gil4

Don’t forget Chicongo.


17 posted on 08/09/2025 10:12:46 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

There IS a certain logic to his concept. They are either getting a hard leftist corruptocrat that will be like Cuomo, Adams, De Blasio etc... or they will get a Ugandan Marxist Indian.

The need a shock to the system.


18 posted on 08/09/2025 10:22:26 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s not wrong.
The pendulum hasn’t swung far enough,..need to give it a little push.


19 posted on 08/09/2025 10:27:17 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: SeekAndFind
after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden

That's it. He's done. I'd sooner listen to a babbling, drooling derelict at a city bus stop trying to convince me of how the world should be run.

20 posted on 08/09/2025 10:33:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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