Mamdani Is a Warning for Western Civilization

Mike Gonzalez

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Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.

Three days before last week’s elections, the once-trenchant “Saturday Night Live” devoted its cold opening skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani, now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so much my face hurts.” The joke was that Mamdani’s permanent grin is false, an artifice he uses to appear relatable.

Well, “SNL” is no longer the must-watch entertainment it was in its earlier years, but it remains a good political prognosticator. Mamdani’s face hurts no more; the metamorphosis from candidate to mayor-elect means the toothy grin is gone, and Mamdani can now bear his totalitarian fangs.

On election night, the soon-to-be “Hizzhoner” devoted his nearly 25-minute victory speech at the Brooklyn Paramount theater to laying out his politics of grievances and a worldview made up of the oppressed and their oppressors, the stock-in-trade of all good Marxists since the 1848 Communist Manifesto.

A question at this point is why the Democratic Party allowed Mamdani’s true political faction, the Democratic Socialists of America, to take it over. DSA members repeatedly make clear that they do not like the Democratic Party, but that their strategy is to become zombie-like body snatchers in a bad Halloween movie.

As for the rest of the country, what is imperative now is saving Western civilization from the likes of Mamdani. This can be done one step at a time, but with a grand strategy.

One of those steps is saving Columbus Circle and the statue of its namesake from the ravages of Mamdani, who would just as soon raze it and erect a Mosque in its place, not because he is religious, but because he understands that Islam can be used as an anti-Western symbol.

This is not hyperbole. We should understand why, once elected, Mamdani let the mask slip. He made clear not only that he believes in big government, but that he has totalitarian inclinations.