It was a rude awakening for some bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young socialists in New York City last week when they arrived at the Zohran Mamdani victory party in Brooklyn to discover that a Bud Light cost a whopping $13. I mean, what kind of socialist utopia is that?
In fact, the expensive foam is probably a good indication of the impact Zany Zohran’s policies will have on Gotham. It will almost certainly be more of a carnival of errors than a clinical communist takeover, making New York City more expensive and less attractive, but with hip Soviet-style posters and TikTok videos.
And guess what? Even as crime skyrockets because Mamdani hates the police, the buses are still not free, rents continue to rise and the city becomes more divided than ever – Mamdani will be mayor for two terms.
There is no Republican Rudy Giuliani 2.0 waiting in the wings, and even if there were, this electorate wouldn’t elect him.
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In the days leading up to the election, I traveled through the five boroughs and found that among moderate and conservative New Yorkers there was no fear of an apocalypse regarding Mamdani, even as billionaires, politicians and editors scolded them for not standing behind Andrew Cuomo to “save the city.”
“I don’t even go to Manhattan,” Steve, a lifelong resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, told me. “I have everything I need here.”
In the nearly half-century that Steve has been in the working-class neighborhood where the police lived and the mafia roamed, he has seen it survive not only under the disastrous leadership of former Socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio, but also through the even worse old days of David Dinkins.
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Like The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” these and so many hardworking neighborhoods of New York City will endure. Other parts of the city, where gang crime, drug dealing and vagrancy are rampant, will continue to get worse, but such places are easily ignored by champagne socialists.
Another reason Mamdani could easily enter a second term is that his base is made up of transplants: young adults in their 20s and 30s who come to New York City to let loose, knowing they’ll settle somewhere else. For them, a little crime might as well be the mustard on Nathan’s hot dog.
Ultimately, the reason Gotham is looking at an eight-year prison sentence for Zohran’s socialist leadership is because the Republican Party, at the national, state, and even city level, simply refuses to even try to compete.
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Some of this goes back to Michael Bloomberg, who cynically ran as a Republican in 2002 to win the mayoral election and then abruptly became an independent, virtually turning the Republican Party into a third party, clinging to its only competitive congressional seat and some city council seats.
Maybe it’s hopeless for the Republicans in Gotham. Maybe things will never get bad enough for everyone that a new Rudy could emerge, and given the way the original is being treated today, who would that person actually want to be?
No matter how bad things get, the city will blame President Donald Trump. Or Vice President JD Vance. Or racism, Islamophobia or whatever they can think of. There’s a reason they would have re-elected De Blasio if they could.
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Notice how the billionaires are now changing their tune, promising to work with Mamdani and begging for meetings with their new commie mayor. Gone is the gnashing of teeth and wailing over the death of New York City.
Right-wing Gothamites never bought the whole Sturm und Drang anyway, and they sure as hell don’t let rich men tell them how to vote.
If there is any hope for the Republican Party to make a comeback in New York City, they better get started now, because with ranked-choice primaries, there isn’t a moderate Democrat in the universe, if one still exists, who could topple Zohran.
Elections have consequences, and for the next eight years, at least in New York City, the consequence is socialism. It’s like sitting at a two-hour recital after your child has already performed, and he or she has to sit through the entire piece.
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Those $13 Bud Lights will be the least.
Buckle up, Gotham, it’s going to be a bumpy ride, and if there’s any Republican other than Curtis Sliwa who wants to oppose socialism, they need to say it now or they may be silent forever.
