Posted on 10/15/2025 2:06:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Today on TAP: His platform, his movement, and his super-rich enemies all fit the historic pattern of New York’s politics.
Zohran Mamdani delivered a major speech last night to thousands of supporters who’d crowded into New York’s United Palace to hear him lay out the stakes in the upcoming mayoral election. To the historically sentient, the speech was replete with echoes of New York’s previous progressive heroes—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and A. Philip Randolph in particular.
Mamdani began by acknowledging the legions who’d walked precincts and made phone calls on his candidacy’s behalf. “There is something special in this room tonight: It’s power,” he said, “the power of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers … working together for a New York where dignity is delivered to all.”
“When has dignity ever been given?” he asked. “When organized labor won the weekend,” he answered, “that was power won, not given.” He continued, citing the battles previous generations of progressives had to wage to wrest the power needed to create better cities and better lives from the powerful of those times. “Great leaders like Fiorello La Guardia taught us that aspiration is something to embrace, not something that we treat as a crime. When we shake loose the shackles of small expectations, our city builds parks and hospitals, and we show the world that ambition and compassion are in fact intertwined.”
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If Mamdani’s speech were footnoted, we’d have to reference two New York socialists for the above quotes. A. Philip Randolph—the lifelong Harlem socialist who headed the first successful Black trade union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, whose threats of a march on Washington compelled Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman to desegregate, respectively, defense plants and...
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He’s a communist POS.
not to be underestimated.
no, while FDR was clearly a state socialist in many ways,
this guy today is nowhere near FDR
he is much much more akin to Lenin, Hitler, Che, and Mao
and a potential disaster for NY
More like son of Mohammad and Marx.
Grandson of Satan.
The upper 5% can never work hard enough to support the lower 95%.
A new refugee family has arrived on my Florida street.
My guess is they came from a NYC suburb.
I will seek to talk to them in the coming days.
He is an indian leftist communist.
A second Obama
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