AOC Rallies for Mamdani: ‘They Want Us to Think We Are Crazy--We Are Sane’

Breitbart ^ | 27 Oct 2025 | Jasmyn Jordan

[MinorityRepublican]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani (D) at a weekend rally in Queens, evoking the city’s immigrant roots and calling on supporters to reject claims that their movement is “crazy” or “outlandish.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a longtime ally of Mamdani, took the stage Sunday to rally voters ahead of next month’s general election, framing New York City’s diversity and resilience as a foundation for the progressive movement’s platform.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping the Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow,” she told the crowd. “Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, in this country, in a vision to build the freest, toughest and greatest city on earth.”

Democrat Party leadership has shifted in response to the growing influence of figures like Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani. On Friday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) formallyendorsed Mamdani after months of internal division in the party, writing that Mamdani had “explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers.” The endorsement came months after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) backed Mamdani, calling him “the best choice for NYC mayor” and praising his “grass-roots movement fueled by everyday people.”

In her speech, Ocasio-Cortez urged voters to stay firm in their convictions, saying, “We must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City. We are not the outlandish ones, New York City. They want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”

Polling from this summer suggests that Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani maintain strong favorability among Democrat primary voters.

[mbrfl]

Crazy people say that all the time.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the left has been nuts for 60+ years

[Texas Eagle]

This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping the Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow,” she told the crowd. “Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, in this country, in a vision to build the freest, toughest and greatest city on earth.”

Yyyeahhh. And what did they produce?

A city so unaffordable that they are going to elect a guy that embodies the countries they fled.

[Texas Eagle]

Ha haaaaaas!

[philman_36]

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping the Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow,” she told the crowd.

The Dutch West India Company founded New York in 1624.
They built it, the others you mention only expanded it.

You're INsane, lady.

[hanamizu]

Crazy people say that all the time.

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True, you never hear a clearly sane person have to say that.

[know.your.why]

Crazy is as Crazy does sweetheart.

[rottndog]

When you have to debate about your sanity, you’ve already lost the debate.

[Track9]

Keep stealing from the tip jar you craven dunce.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“We are sane.”

“I am not a crook.”

[Jaded]

Think they’ve proven time and again they are NOT sane.

[frank ballenger]

Good song by the group Starship, with Grace Slick (1987).

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

Let them say we’re crazy, I don’t care about that
Put your hand in my hand, baby, don’t ever look back.

Let the world around us just fall apart
Baby, we can make it if we’re heart to heart.

And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever.

Nothing’s gonna stop us now.

[vpintheak]

Crazy people think they are sane.

[larrytown]

She’s not a medical doctor - she isn’t qualified to make diagnoses like that.

[PGR88]

[Sirius Lee]

“This city was built by ...Native people standing for themselves

I must have missed that part. Bury my heart at wounded NOHO?

[Steely Tom]

We are sane, we are sane,
We are sane, sane sane!
We are tot'ly, absolutely sane!

[Mr. Mojo]

Right, because sane people scream “WE ARE SANE!!!” on stage at communist-jihadist rallies.

[Wallace T.]

Rhetorical nonsense. A huge portion of Irish immigration did occur because of the Potato Famine, but immigration of Irish Catholics began in large numbers after 1820, as evidenced by a rapid expansion of the number of Catholic churches and institutions in the Northeast in the 1820s and 1830s. Irish immigration continued and was not limited by the immigration restrictions imposed in 1924, as those laws favored Northern European immigrants. Italian immigration ended prior to the rise of Mussolini due to restrictions on immigration after World War I. Immigration to the USA was mostly motivated by economic factors, especially in Southern Italy. Ditto for the Jews, as they were mostly in NYC before World War I, well before the Holocaust. There were pogroms by Poles and Russians but, as with the Italians, the main motivation was economic, not political. Black Americans did not show up in large numbers in the slavery era. They did move to the North in large numbers after World War I, in part to escape Jim Crow but mostly because industrial jobs in the Northern cities paid better than farm labor, domestic work, or sharecropping in the South. Restrictions on immigration and an expanding economy in the 1920s meant great job growth.

Of course, the Dutch and English founders of New York were ignored, as were smaller ethnic groups like Germans, Poles, Greeks, Norwegians, etc.