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New York City has chosen its next mayor. But even as the Australian media heaps praise on Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim socialist’s victory speech betrayed his radical agenda for the world’s most influential city.

Self-described “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani has been elected New York City’s next mayor, having polled around 50 per cent of the vote to rival and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s 41 per cent.

While Australian media personalities and commentators gush over the 34-year-old’s triumph, and widely hail his victory speech on social media, even Mamdani’s carefully polished address should give any Westerner pause.

Mingled in with Mamdani’s boilerplate inspirational rhetoric, his vague triumphalist truisms, and a cacophony of stock populist catchphrases was a frightening foretaste of what lies ahead for the world’s financial capital.

Mamdani is a charismatic orator to be sure — but his antisemitism, cozy relationship with Islamism, big government giveaways and Marx-inspired worldview will predictably come back to bite the Big Apple.

Here are the seven most foreboding remarks from his Tuesday night victory speech.

1. The Eugene Debs Quote

“The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’”

Yes, that’s Zohran Mamdani directly quoting a Marxist in the opening line of his speech.

Plenty of historical figures have uttered trite words about new beginnings. Why choose Eugene Debs?

It reminds me of the time Mamdani unapologetically wheeled out the communist catchphrases “raising class consciousness” and “seizing the means of production” to describe the end-goal of his political project.

This is not terrible AI, it’s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.

“The end goal of seizing the means of production.”

I can’t believe this is actually happening. pic.twitter.com/KNxQV2QCX7

— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 30, 2025

2. No American Constituents?

“Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city, who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.”

Did you notice any nationalities Mamdani missed in his sentimental list? That’s right: he didn’t once mention Americans — not in this remark, and not anywhere in his speech.

In fact, he was quite clear about his conception of New Yorkers: “New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

Zohran Mamdani thanks “Yemenis, Uzbeks, Mexicans, Senegaleses, Trinidadians, and Ethiopians” but fails to mention “Americans”

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 5, 2025

3. Free Stuff For Everyone

“Central to [my] vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilised tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal childcare across our city.”

Arguably, Mamdani won because he promised to address the single most pressing issue Westerns everywhere face: the cost-of-living crisis.

But socialism, democratic or otherwise, has a decorated history of solving problems by exacerbating the very same problems — and Mamdani’s policies are no different.

His city-run grocery stores will harken back to East Germany and the Soviet Union; his “no-cost childcare” will cost New Yorkers northward of US$7 billion annually; and his “rent freeze” proposal will simply transfer financial stress from struggling New York tenants to struggling New York landlords.

What the city needs is more wealth creation, not more wealth redistribution. And what families of young children need is a way out of the two-income trap so mothers can choose to raise their toddlers themselves instead of being shoehorned into handing them over to the state.

Some thoughts on communism, charity, and New York City’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani 👇 pic.twitter.com/15XgDzaKcW

— Josh Howerton (@howertonjosh) November 5, 2025

4. Mamdani’s Plan for Crime

“Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on.”

On the campaign trail, Mamdani waxed lyrical about the New York Police Department, which was something of a contrast to his 2020 social media crusade in which he decried the NYPD as racist, anti-queer, wicked, corrupt, and a threat to safety — and vowed to dismantle it.

New York, remember these comments from Communist Zohran Mamdani when you vote today.

“We need to defund the police.”

“Queer liberation means defund the police.”

“Defund the police and build a socialist New York.” pic.twitter.com/8aK9s8V469

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 4, 2025

5. Islamic Whitewashing of 9/11

“And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than 1 million Muslims know that they belong — not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.”

In 2001, almost 3,000 Americans were killed when Islamic terrorists flew passenger jets into the World Trade Centre. If you’d asked a New Yorker back then to imagine a Muslim one day being elected mayor, they’d have been taken aback.

Not only has New York done just that, but they’ve elected a Muslim mayor who, through tears, claimed that Muslims were the real victims of 9/11, and campaigned with an imam who conspired in the earlier 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has links to other terrorist activity on US soil.

Moreover, Mamdani’s condemnation of antisemitism rings hollow when he’s claimed that “the boot of the NYPD on your neck… [has] been laced by the IDF”, and refused, three times in three minutes, to condemn the anti-Jewish phrase “globalise the intifada”.

6. Government Solves All?

“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”

“We will prove that there is no problem to large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”

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— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) November 5, 2025

This short sentence surely ranks as one of the most frightful phrases a US political figure has ever uttered. It is born of the same instinct that animated every communist dictator in history, and flies in the face of everything America’s Founding Fathers stood for.

Cue the famous quip from former US President Ronald Reagan: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

Or this brilliant line from C.S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

7. The Democratic Party Redefined

“I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologise for any of this.

“And yet, if tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price. Too many working people cannot recognise themselves in our party, and too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they’ve been left behind.

“We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great.”

Just prior to this week’s elections, poll after poll after poll put support for the Democratic Party at historic lows.

Now, out of the ashes rises Zohran Mamdani. He may not be on Capitol Hill or in a governor’s mansion, but he is the closest thing the Democrats have to a figurehead or torchbearer for their movement.

Imagine that: a Marxian, antisemitic, cozy-with-Islamists anti-American is the best the Democrats have to offer.

The party will pay the price. New Yorkers will too.

I love New York City, which is why I grieve this week’s election result. I can only hope the locals learn their lesson as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Good thing it’s a city that knows how to bounce back after tribulation.

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