Democrats have flirted with socialism for years and galvanized their base with the promise of “equality,” and now they’re afraid to look it in the eye. While New York City dazzled on election night, the real shockwave was in the Democratic Party’s war room. Democratic Socialists of America candidate Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old darling of the far left, stalled the race, taking 50.4% of the vote and defeating both former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in a record turnout of more than 2 million voters.
Mamdani is the youngest mayor since 1892, with extreme promises of higher taxes for millionaires, rent freezes, free childcare and tolerance for the “globalize the intifada” message that has stoked fear among Jewish voters.
While progressives saw the election results as a mandate for socialism, the establishment remained studiously silent, without words or a unified message. Party elders — from former President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to the usual power brokers — are silent.
Obama, once the greatest unifier in the Democratic Party, called Mamdani before the election and said he ran an “impressive campaign,” offering to act as a sounding board but never endorsed him. While in the race for two winning gubernatorial candidates – Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and in New Jersey held election rallies for Mikie Sherrill – he could no longer travel several miles to America’s largest city to support his own party’s candidate.
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Democratic candidate for mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani with Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network’s House of Justice in Harlem on November 1, 2025. (Ryan Murphy/Reuters)
This was a calculated move because Mamdani, an unapologetic, self-proclaimed socialist with policies and a track record of supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and who refuses to condemn the violent anti-Israel rhetoric, would alienate key coalitions: minorities, the labor movement and the moderate base. Obama knows how toxic his own creation has become. As one Democratic strategist put it best: “Obama is being very cautious. A show of support for Mamdani by Obama could be used against Democrats across the country.”
Schumer hid from his own base and refused to say who he voted for in New York. The same Schumer who once shifted his position to lead the Democratic Party is now hiding from his own city, saying spinelessly, “I look forward to working with the next mayor.” Instead of confronting the socialist takeover of his own party, he is trying to avoid it, which amounts to surrender.
In Washington, Democrats know Mamdani is a political pill, while Virginia’s Democratic Senator Tim Kaine ignored questions about Mamdani with a vague “local race” excuse. And Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said: I don’t think anyone in New York is really interested in what Dick Blumenthal thinks about his mayoral race, even though his state borders New York. These non-answers are a warning sign that the party has lost its ideological compass.
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The silence of Democratic Party leaders tells the truth. A new Pew Research poll shows that 67% of Democrats are frustrated with their own party and feel it is out of touch — an overwhelming rebuke of its leadership. Only 28% have a positive image of their party’s direction. Voters don’t see policies that work for hardworking Americans; they see higher taxes, rising inflation and collapsing public safety. They’re struggling to pay their bills, while Democrats promise “equality.”
This is exactly why the Democrats are in total crisis over Mamdani. His equality agenda is a carbon copy of 1970s socialism: rent freezes, a 2% millionaires’ tax that will destroy business investment, free childcare, free buses, city-run supermarkets and more. It’s a huge expense disguised as “equity,” with no plan to pay for it. Economists warn that these policies could lead to another mass exodus of residents from New York City, creating the kind of economic vulnerability that the Cato Institute has warned about.
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Democrats have spent decades selling socialism using “equality slogans” to galvanize their base, and now they are silent as Mamdani’s victory sets a national precedent that burns through their party from within.
While progressives saw the election results as a mandate for socialism, the establishment remained studiously silent, without words or a unified message.
As Obama, Schumer and Kaine ghost, dodge and sidestep Mamdani in a dance of self-preservation, frustration within their own base will only grow. The democratic establishment is terrified of the socialist revolution it created while pursuing voters and ideals for “equality,” and now it has lost control of its own party.
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The truth is that Democrats are not running against Republicans, and they don’t have a President Donald Trump problem, they have a Democratic problem. The party has been paralyzed by fear and disintegrated as its radical wing takes power. Voters who were once promised sanity and stability have been abandoned, and activists are now in control.
If leaders like Obama and Schumer do not find the courage to confront the socialism they have unleashed, they will not only lose New York, but it will lead to a reckoning across the country in the midterm elections and beyond. A movement built on envy and resentment always turns against its creators.
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