(American Greatness)—Mamdani’s victory over Andrew Cuomo shows where the Democrat Party is headed. It’s up to populist Republicans to stop the country from going there, too.
The victory of Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, in New York City’s Democrat primary has conservatives searching for answers. Unfortunately, many are attributing it to college-brainwashed rich kids, dismissing the notion that hardworking people in an expensive city could find price controls and free public transit attractive.
Cuomo did win the city’s poorest voters, but this is arguably attributable to New York machine politics and name recognition rather than ideology. Mamdani crushed him with middle-class white, Hispanic, and Asian voters, winning considerable support in working-class areas where—and this should alarm you—President Donald Trump saw his greatest gains last year.
Appealing to young socialists in gentrified areas and being an Asian Muslim himself certainly helped Mamdani boost turnout among these demographics. But he really won because he used the Trump playbook: he connected his platform with local problems people face in their daily lives.
Former President Joe Biden’s inflation and open borders exacerbated the problems globalism created for the urban working class.
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