Newsmax's Mamdani Meltdowns
After Zohran Mamdani won the primary for New York City mayor, Newsmax and its columnists went into freakout mode by fearmongering over what he might do if he wins the general election.
Like the Media Research Center, Newsmax had a major freakout that Zohran Mamdani won the primary for New York City major. Its coverage immediately after the election was filled with fearmongering:
Giuliani to Newsmax: Mamdani Primary Win a Victory for Communists
Boca Raton Mayor Singer to Newsmax: We’ll Welcome New Yorkers Fleeing Mamdani
Rep. Malliotakis to Newsmax: Mamdani’s Success Shows Dems Far Left
John Gizzi was relatively moderate by comparison in a June 27 column, cheering that current mayor Eric Adams “is now considering an active bid for re-election on the End Semitism and Safe and Affordable ballot lines,” highlighting how another mayoral candidate, Vincent Impelliteri, “ran as an independent against two major party nominees and pulled off the unprecedented feat of winning.”
George J. Marlin served up more fearmongering in his June 27 column:
Zohran Mamdani followed the playbook of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D.Y., (AOC), promising lots of free stuff to young, coddled left-wingers who were indoctrinated in leftist propaganda during their college years.
Mamdani pledged to stack the New York City Housing Board with members who would “freeze rents” on 400,000 rent-stabilized apartments.
He vowed to eliminate bus fares, provide free childcare, open government-owned supermarkets, go after hospitals that do not perform gender affirmative care, spend $65 million annually to promote such care, and create an office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.
A past supporter of the “Defund the Police,” movement he declined to say if he would hire more law enforcement, but said he will empty jail cells, eliminate police overtime, cut back police patrols in minority neighborhoods, and repeal all criminal misdemeanors.
To pay for all of this — which will cost at least $10 billion annually — he told his followers that he would increase corporate taxes and Gotham’s income tax on the top 1% of taxpayers — who are already paying the highest combined state and city income taxes in the nation.
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The New York Democratic Party is now in the hands of the radical left wing whose policies will destroy the city both fiscally and economically.
Michael Dorstewitz mocked those who voted for Mamdani in his June 27 column:
So the college-educated voters preferred the socialist, putting an end to any idea that a four-year college degree makes you smarter. Suddenly all the anti-Israel, anti-Jew riots taking over many of America’s most prestigious college campuses make sense.
The same backward, anti-logical thinking applied to income levels.
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If not, the 1981 action-science fiction film, Escape From New York may come back as a battle cry for those New Yorkers who rely on their common sense more than higher education, to navigate their way through life.
And those 2.2 million New York Jews will definitely be looking for a new home.
A June 28 article by James Morley III served up some secondhand fearmongering: “The New York Post editorial board slammed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying the longtime Democrat’s ego will push far-left Zohran Mamdani into the mayor’s mansion this November.”
More meltdowns
Newsmax continued its Trump Regime Media routine bashing Mamdani with a July 2 column by Michael Reagan, who began by mocking the “Democratic base” as welfare-addicted poor people:
New York City shoppers may get the “opportunity” to sample genuine Soviet-style, government–run grocery stores much sooner than they expected.
Zohran Mamdani, the “democratic socialist” candidate for mayor in New York City, just won the Democratic primary. He did so mostly on a promise to give free stuff to low information voters and economic illiterates.
One of his promises involved reducing grocery store prices.
How grocery store prices affect the Democratic base of welfare recipients who have taxpayers footing the bill for their groceries is unknown at this time, but the promise struck a chord with some voters.
Possibly the bitter wine women — another important segment of the Democratic base — unhappy about the price of arugula.
Reagan fully lashed out at Mamdani’s plan for city-operated grocery stores:
What he doesn’t say is that shoppers would also get to enjoy the famous customer service and attention to detail made famous by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
John Catsimatidis, the CEO of grocery chain Gristedes, is angry enough regarding the proposal to help Mamdani by potentially opening up some prime real estate.
Catsimatidis told Fox News, “If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations.” Fox also said Catsimatidis will contemplate moving his corporate offices to New Jersey.”
As the USSR’s government-owned grocery stores proved, this new — for New York — model will remove a lot of the decision-making overhead afflicting some shoppers.
They won’t have to worry about 40 different varieties of condiments anymore.
In the Soviet Union shoppers could choose from one.
If it was in stock.
And will city owned grocery stores even care about shoplifting?
Or will that be part of an impromptu Mamdani Bone-in Ribeye reparations program?
But as Wonkette points out, New Yorkers shop at Catsimatidis’ grocery stores because they have no better option:
The stores are known for being grimy, having ridiculous prices even by Manhattan standards, and a tendency to have a single register open at one time, operated by a surly, elderly woman who’s worked there for 20 years and hates everybody’s face.
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Click reviews of any of Gristedes or D’Agostino’s three-something-starred locations on Google Maps and you’ll be treated to a bounty of tales of rotten meat and vegetables, $9 boxes of Fruity Pebbles, and other disappointments. “Sometimes life gives you lemons and sometimes life gives you 5 dollar black beans and no lemons.”
Two weeks ago Catsimatidis threatened to close up his stores and move to Florida if Mamdani wins, and nary a tear was shed.
Grocery collapse is what’s been happening already, that’s the whole problem! Grocery redlining has left entire ZIP codes in New York without stable access to food, and more than 100 full-service grocery stores in New York City have closed in the past five years, mostly in lower-income neighborhoods. Lack of investment in areas considered a “demographic risk” are why there are food deserts in the city in the first place.
Reagan said nothing about that, of course.
Betsy McCaughey used her July 3 column to raise the ol’ right-wing specter of election-rigging in Mamdani’s win:
New Yorkers are under the false impression that the taxpayer-funded New York City Campaign Finance Board is leveling the playing field to make voting for Gotham’s next mayor and other elected officials fair.
Just the opposite is true. The CFB is doling out obscene amounts of our money to tilt the scales in favor of left-wing candidates.
The political consultants, pollsters and campaign industry raked in gobs of cash during the recent primary, while the city was pushed to the extreme left, nominating radical antisemite and communist Zohran Mamdani to be the Democratic candidate for mayor.
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Mamdani’s also backed by a far-flung network of leftist nonprofits that receive taxpayer funding courtesy of Democratic lawmakers — then provide the expertise, manpower andconnections to win political races. They’re outstripping the unions in impact and influence.
And worse, gaming the campaign finance system and corrupting its original purpose.
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Mamdani frequently boasts about the grassroots volunteer movement powering his campaign. But what happened last Tuesday was not an organic rising up of everyday New Yorkers.
In a city and state dominated by the Left, lawmakers are using taxpayer money to boost the nonprofit radical advocacy industrial complex, which then orchestrates their reelection.
The CFB doles out more taxpayer money, pretending the process is fair.
Time to eliminate the CFB, let taxpayers off the hook, and devise another method to make elections fair.
McCaughey offered no evidence that anything illegal happened.
Micah Halpern ranted in his July 7 column:
It’s so easy to hate Jews nowadays, you don’t even need an excuse for expressing your vitriol.
The ascension of Zohran Mamdani, his guaranteed position on the ballot for New York City mayor, does not, contrary to common belief, represent a surge in the popularity of hating Jews. What it does, rather, is concretize what New York Jews, specifically and American Jewry, more generally, already felt in their bones, in their “kishkes” as my “Bubee,” would say.
Mamdani’s success in the NYC Democratic primary illustrates that Jew hatred is now an established reality. Present-day Jew hatred is not a spike on the status quo — it is the status quo.
Understanding this distinction is crucial. Within the United States, there now exists a significant portion of the population that feels comfortable in their hatred of Jews. This is a fact that was inconceivable even a decade ago.
And Zohran Mamdani is the poster child of this movement.
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Jew hatred must not be normalized. The non-Jewish world must, unlike Mamdani, condemn this hatred as all hatreds. As for the NYC mayoral election, even those who conspire with the now most famous Jew hater of our day should pay attention to his other policies.
Mamdani’s views and his politics are not just bad for Jews; they are bad for New Yorkers and bad for all Americans.
Julio Rivera served up his own rant in his column the same day:
They did it. They actually did it.
In New York City, Democrats just nominated Zohran Mamdani — a self-described socialist — for mayor, running on a platform best summed up as “Amnesty, Anarchy, and Absurdity.”
In a stunning upset, the 33-year-old Queens legislator defeated former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo by championing a radical leftist agenda that would make Bernie Sanders blush.
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What Mamdani proposes for New York — a permanent rent freeze, city-owned grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage, and open hostility to police and federal immigration enforcement — is becoming the default agenda of America’s urban left.
Mamdani has referred to capitalism as “theft” and ICE as “fascist.”
This isn’t a serious governing vision. It’s ideological cosplay at best — and economic ruin at worst. Unfortunately, too many cities are letting these ideas become law.
Rivera took his own shot at Mamdani’s grocery proposal:
Government-run grocery stores may seem helpful — until shelves go bare like we’ve seen in practically every socialist experiment in this hemisphere.
When government decides what you can charge, what you can pay, and where you can invest, you no longer have a free society. You have a command economy.
We’ve seen this playbook before.
It fails every time.
But that hasn’t stopped progressive politicians from turning America’s great cities into testing grounds for failed ideologies.
The real threat is not one candidate in New York, but an entire movement trying to turn socialism from a slogan into a system — one ordinance, one rent cap, one spending bill at a time.
It’s time for a course correction.
Rivera closed by huffing: “Mamdani’s rise should be a wake-up call. The path to prosperity isn’t paved with slogans. It’s built on supply, opportunity, and liberty.”
Even more meltdowns
Newsmax columnists continued their meltdowns over New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. McCaughey freaked in a July 12 column:
A Mayor Mamdani will either raise New York’s already high taxes to pay for all these goodies, or his reckless spending will plunge the city into fiscal chaos, leading to draconian austerity measures like cuts to police and garbage collection.
Disastrous either way.
Aren’t there legal guardrails to limit what an irresponsible New York City mayor — even a crazed socialist one — can do?
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If you live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, get ready to be socked with higher taxes — and possibly see your home’s resale value drop as a result.
In a one-party city and a nearly one-party state, there are few safeguards against the maniacal vision of Mamdani.
We have just one defense: electing someone else.
Rob Taub spent a July 15 column raging that young voters – who live “coddled lifestyles” and “enjoy a world of largesse given to them by their parents along with a level of ease provided by innovative technology that helps manage their lives” — support Mamdani:
Currently, we have a socialist New York City Mayoral candidate. He’s 33-years-old and is selling everything “free” — along with hatred and division — to this utterly bewildered group. But what’s even more disturbing is they’re buying it.
Those not too long ago would have been a laughed at as “fringe” candidates, are now viable contenders for mayor of the greatest city in the world.
This means, this youthful group of voters can have a devastating impact on the future of our world.
Taub then condescendingly lectured these young people who fail to be as right-wing as he is:
None of your problems exist because someone else is a billionaire. Left-wing politicians have made “free” the most expensive word in the English language, so taxing a city or state — let alone our country — into prosperity is impossible.
Use some of the time you spend on social media to study history.
Read biographies of successful people, even if they’re no longer alive.
Instead of watching videos about the lifestyles of today’s billionaires, learn about how they built their businesses, and seek your own success.
You may actually enjoy the process.
Duvi Honig grumbled in a July 18 column:
It’s one of the great ironies of our time — and one of the most disturbing.
Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assemblyman who won the Democratic Nomination to Run for mayor of New York City, whose family fled Uganda under the tyrannical rule of Idi Amin, has now emerged as one of the loudest voices trying to destroy everything America and New York City stands.
He has defended Hamas and attacked Israel.
His political stance isn’t just hypocritical — it’s dangerous, dishonest, and an insult to every New York City resident suffering, post Sept. 11, 2001 and Oct 7, 2023 – as a result of unbridled terrorism.
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Mamdani, now running for Mayor of New York City, as a Democrat, has seemingly made it his mission to attack American values.
He’s traded in the identity of a grateful refugee for that of a radical ideologue.
President Donald Trump is correct in calling him out as a Communist, one bringing a dangerous drift to New York City’s leadership.
A slide toward socialism, radicalism, and sympathy for terrorist causes.
Rather than embracing the freedoms he was gifted, he is attempting to rewrite them into a manifesto of extremism. We must not allow our generosity to become our Achilles’ heel.
Partha Chakraborty melted down over Mamdani’s proposal to open city-owned grocery stores in a July 24 column:
Small grocery stores in the city are primarily run by immigrants, a stepping stone in their American dream. They do have to pay rent and property taxes, and muddle through city bureaucracy making them vulnerable to government overreach.
At the very least, Mamdani is penalizing aspiring newcomers that New York City has beckoned for centuries.
Whenever used in the U.S., state-run grocery stores were a cesspool of mismanagement.
Chakraborty further raged:
Mamdani’s proposal for free public buses is a public safety threat.
Public transport system in the city is so deep in the hole that free rides would not make city coffers much lighter.
That said, now police officers have a valid reason to ask vagrants to leave if caught free-tripping. Under Mamdani’s proposal vagrants, drug users, and the homeless will have free reign of city transport.
At risk are schoolchildren and the elderly, among others.
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As someone born and brought up on the wrong side of the tracks, I can do without anyone who claims to care for me in any way other than making it easier to pursue my dreams.
Sensible New Yorkers should feel the sameway.
This madness of a gilded rage in New York City must stop.
Chakraborty’s column concluded with this weird warning: “All opinions are of the Author alone, and do not necessarily represent that of any organization he may be part of. The author alone is responsible for any error or omission.”
George J. Marlin had his own entry for the meltdown pile in an Aug. 4 column:
Since winning New York City’s Democratic primary in June, Zohran Mamdani has been attempting to walk back many of his far-left public comments.
But no matter how hard he tries, his words will always haunt him for the simple reason that once a Marxist, always a Marxist.
Because Marxists, like Mamdani, mistakenly believe that their economic and social pronouncements are historically determined to unfold in time, they will never truly abandon their ideological tenets.
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While “The Quotable Mamdani” is only a sampling of the musings of the mayoral candidate — they should be enough fodder to make any reasonable voter to think twice before pulling the lever for him on Election Day, November 2025.
Newsmax’s Mamdani meltdowns seem to be just as quotable.