Posted on 11/21/2025 9:23:56 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Zohran Mamdani may have eked out his victory in New York City’s mayoral contest – prompting a literal champagne socialist celebration in some fancy restaurants – but a lot of New Yorkers are far from happy about it.
While Mamdani fell short of the two-thirds majority typical in other mayoral races, he earned his 50% in a much larger electorate than usual. Andrew Cuomo, who lost by 9 points after running a campaign that made the Titanic seem like masterful seamanship, lost with more votes in raw numbers than those with which the previous mayor, Eric Adams, won his seat.
It’s now time to think about restraining the worst damage from the new resident of Gracie Mansion, a guy who unironically endorses the Marxist credo, is poised to gut an already long-suffering police force struggling to keep crime under control, and release more lawless protests across the city. But don’t worry – they’re sure to be “mostly peaceful.”
The Trump administration, under a president who clearly loves the great city of New York, can play a large role in counterbalancing the worst of its new mayor, including by energetically enforcing immigration law and keeping order in face of the likely violence facing ICE agents doing their jobs. The federal government can also assign more prosecutors to prosecute federal crimes here, as well as use the many streams of federal revenue that the profligate spenders of the city need for their schemes as policy leverage.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and the police union will also do their best, we are sure, to pop the new mayor’s Russian roulette approach to policing with the reality of safety and real-word consequences.
But even within New York state, there are many ways voters who fear Mamdani’s radical project can stop him from implementing it...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and the police union will also do their best, we are sure, to pop the new mayor’s Russian roulette approach “
Yeah, because that Harvard lawyer billionaire heiress has really fixed NYPD.
She’s a joke... no cop background at all. But was appointed because she’s a triple threat, Jewish, Female, and woke.
Makes her untouchable in New York.
Best thing we can do is let NY collapse and let them serve as a lesson.
“socialist celebration”? jihadist celebration worldwide turning the volume up.
When you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.
I’m feeling New York and California are write offs at this point.
The only way Conservatives have a chance is to stop counting illegals in the census, get rid of gerrymandered districts, get rid of jungle primaries, go to same day voting where mail in voting is only allowed if you have a legitimate excuse when you request a ballot, terminate ranked choice voting, cleanup voter rolls, and publish results on election night. Is that too much to ask constitutionally?
Good luck.....You must convince the illegals to agree since they seem to control the vote. With Mami the muslims will become major ballplayers in the fight for NYC. Once he get sharia in place its over.
Are New York voters worth the fight?
LOL...no.
New York City residents don’t fight for themselves. I live in NY State, and could care less what goes on in that city. It’s gone downhill since Rudy Giuliani left the Mayor’s office. It’s bad enough we’re stuck with a RAT Governor, RAT-controlled State Legislature, and two RAT U.S. Senators....all thanks to the a-holes who live and vote downstate. If NY City wants to die, just let it.
I really don’t care one way or the other as long as the cancer doesn’t spread when that host dies. We do need to fence it off.
Check
Some things aren’t worth fighting for. NYC and Europe quickly come to mind.
No. let them eat cake.
Wanna help NYS fix itself?
Help us secure our elections.
We did NOT vote for this.
Staten Island, The Bronx and parts of Queens and Brooklyn I feel sorry for. Manhattan is a place of evil, but there can be Revival there.
New York has already chosen who they fight for. They always pick the worst for themselves because that is what they want.
Why? Why fight for New York?
They should get what they voted for, good and hard.
Some of them sill learn - others? Not so much.
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