A socialist New York isn’t just a local problem. It’s a national emergency.



In the heart of New York City, the unthinkable is becoming reality: a socialist insurgency is no longer on the fringes. It’s winning.

The mayoral primary victory of Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, is not merely a local event or an eccentric district quirk. It’s a warning siren for the entire nation. What happens in New York doesn’t stay in New York — especially when it’s a city that sets the cultural, financial, and political tone for the rest of the country.

The battle for America’s soul is being fought in city council meetings, in primary elections, and on the streets of New York. We cannot afford to sit it out.

Mamdami’s radical agenda, cloaked in the soft language of “equity” and “community care,” is not about helping people. It’s about centralizing power under the government, redistributing wealth through force, and turning the most powerful city in the world into a test case for a socialist America.

If the financial capital of the free world falls to Marxist ideology, the rest of the country is not far behind.

American socialism’s ‘Ground Zero’

New York is a beachhead for a nationwide socialist revolution. It’s not just Mamdani — it’s a growing wave of elected ideologues, funded and organized, who want to gut capitalism and replace it with a top-down government-run system.

Their policies aren’t theoretical any more. They’re being implemented.

In Mamdani’s vision of New York, landlords are villains, property rights are negotiable, and the needs of illegal immigrants come before those of taxpaying citizens. Public safety is an afterthought. Drug use is decriminalized. Homelessness is institutionalized.

Infrastructure, transportation, policing, housing — all placed in the grip of government planners pushing equity over efficiency, ideology over functionality. The result is predictable: urban decay, mass exodus, rising crime, and collapsing infrastructure — a recipe we’ve seen in every city that’s flirted with socialist rule.

First New York, then the nation

But this isn’t just about New York’s self-destruction. It’s about national contagion.

New York City is America’s media hub, its cultural center, and, most critically, the beating heart of its financial system. If socialist policies like Mamdani’s take hold here, they will radiate outward. A city that once stood as a monument to capitalism will serve as a propaganda engine for the exact opposite.

And make no mistake — the rest of the nation is watching. If socialism becomes normalized in the Big Apple, other progressive cities will feel emboldened to follow.

The ripple effect is already in motion. Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle — all experimenting with shades of the same ideology. The difference is that New York City is the crown jewel. Its fall would mark a point of no return. A city once revered for its grit, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit would become the flagship of American decline.

The financial implications are staggering. New York isn’t just any city — it’s the global capital of finance. Wall Street, Nasdaq, the headquarters of major banks and corporations — all reside here. Investors around the world look to the city as a symbol of economic stability.

What happens when socialist policies threaten property rights, undermine police protection, and destroy incentives to do business here? Money will flee. Businesses will relocate. Markets will react. The economic engine of the United States will stall, and the consequences will reverberate worldwide.

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Worse yet, the ideological shift will bleed into federal politics. As New York City’s congressional delegation grows more radical, so does the national platform of the Democratic Party. Policies birthed in Mamdani’s district — like rent cancellation, taxpayer-funded drug programs, sanctuary city mandates, and public housing on suburban streets — have already crept into the national discourse. What starts as a local experiment quickly becomes a legislative push in Washington.

This is why the stakes are so high. Conservatives must recognize that the fight is not limited to red states or Capitol Hill. It’s in Queens. It’s in Brooklyn. It’s in the very places where socialism is gaining power block by block, district by district. The battle for America’s soul is being fought in city council meetings, in primary elections, and on the streets of New York. We cannot afford to sit it out.

We must act

We must expose this radicalism for what it is. We must challenge the deceptive branding of “democratic socialism” as some harmless cousin of communism. We must fight back with truth, passion, and deliberate action. New York can no longer be written off as a lost cause. It must be reclaimed — because the country depends on it.

A socialist New York is not just a local problem. It’s a national emergency.

If Mamdani and his allies succeed in transforming the financial capital of the world into a socialist enclave, the damage will not be confined to the five boroughs. It will creep into every corner of America — one policy, one election, one city at a time.

We don’t need to imagine the consequences. We’ve seen them — in the crumbling economies of Venezuela and Cuba, in the failed experiments of Detroit and San Francisco. But if we allow the socialist left to take New York City, the fall of those places will pale in comparison.

The future of America could be written on the streets of New York. Let’s make sure it’s not written in communist red.

Stop calling Zohran Mamdani a communist — he’s something worse



Every time I hear a Fox News host or a Republican pundit call New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani a “communist” or “democratic socialist,” I wince in annoyance. Sometimes, I even yell at the TV — not that they can hear me, and even if they could, they’d probably ignore me.

In reality, however, Mamdani is not a would-be Lenin. He is, in fact, a practitioner of woke capitalism. He’s not about to nationalize the means of production or seize the assets of the wealthy progressives in Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Manhattan’s Upper East Side — the very people bankrolling his campaign and voting for him.

The more we cling to outdated Cold War categories, the less attention we give to fighting the woke maniacs dismantling our constitutional order.

What Mamdani will do, most likely, is strip police protection from working-class neighborhoods, pour taxpayer money into gimmicks like city-owned grocery stores, and glorify Hamas terrorists.

Soviet-style central planning isn’t on his agenda for the Big Apple. Cultural revolution is.

Boomer nostalgia for the Cold War

Those calling Mamdani a “communist” are playing to Boomer-era Republican fixations. They’re appealing to people who still see politics through Cold War lenses — the bad guys are “commies,” and anyone unwilling to bury socialism is the enemy.

It’s an easy way to rally the troops: Invoke Ronald Reagan’s fight against “the evil empire,” and pretend that Mao and Brezhnev still represent the ultimate threat. For some Republicans, “democratic socialist” is simply a euphemism for “communist,” and that means we’re back in the glory days of battling the Soviets. It simply isn’t so.

I’ve been called a “right-wing Marxist” by people who should know better. But when communism was the threat, I was as anti-communist as anyone alive. I even admired Senator Joseph McCarthy’s efforts to expose Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government and military — to a point. But that’s not the danger in front of us now.

The real threat isn’t Marxism

The greatest danger today comes from woke maniacs embedded in media, education, and government — people dismantling our constitutional order in the name of “equity” and “inclusion.” The more we cling to outdated Cold War categories, the less attention we give to fighting them.

What’s more dangerous: Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky economic ideas, or his militant abortion politics, his zeal for performing gender-transition surgeries on minors, his rejection of biological sex, and his anti-white rhetoric? The “communist” label is the least of our concerns.

Mamdani is a woke zealot, and nearly half of New York’s voters embrace his politics. His biggest fans are young, college-educated progressives who love both his identity-based crusades and his promises of government giveaways.

Why the right keeps missing the point

Some Republican commentators may be too nostalgic for Boomer anti-communism — or too wary of alienating their own socially liberal supporters — to confront Mamdani’s cultural extremism head-on. It’s easier to rehash 1970s and ’80s rhetoric than to grapple with the ideological fight that’s actually in front of us.

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The Manhattan Institute reports that Mamdani’s proposed budget includes $65 million for “gender-affirming care,” including surgery for minors, and the creation of a special City Hall office dedicated to LGBTQIA+ advocacy. In Minneapolis, the Democratic frontrunner — another African Muslim, though hardly devout — plans to turn the city into the nation’s hub for sex-change procedures and a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Yes, Mamdani wants to “promote the global intifada” and squander tax dollars on absurd programs. But his war on public safety and his hostility to traditional norms should alarm us most. None of this has anything to do with Marxism.

A warning to the GOP

Communist regimes, in fact, were more conservative than Mamdani on social policy and public order. Eastern European communist parties today oppose same-sex marriage and most of the LGBTQ agenda. Mamdani’s program is far more culturally radical than anything dreamed up in the Kremlin.

It may take time for Republicans stuck in Cold War mode to grasp this. But if we keep fighting yesterday’s ideological battles, we’ll keep losing today’s cultural war.

The Revolution That Fell Short

Radical mythology deemed December 14, 1825, the beginning of the Russian revolutionary movement. Tsar Alexander I had died three weeks earlier, and it was still not clear which of his brothers, Konstantin, who was in Warsaw, or Nicholas, who was present in the capital, would succeed him. Taking advantage of the confusion, a group of aristocratic army officers led their soldiers to the Senate Square, ostensibly to support the absent Konstantin but really to overthrow the monarchy.

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Bernie Sanders shuns Mark Levin debate: Scared of being grilled over his Castro crush?



Mark Levin has repeatedly invited Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on “LevinTV” to debate him over Sanders’ long list of socialist policies, like government-run health care, punitive wealth taxes, and union-heavy labor schemes. Many public invitations have been extended, but every time — crickets.

Is he just too busy rallying Trump haters on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour? Or is he scared Mark will wipe the floor with him?

Perhaps he’s hesitant because he knows he’ll be skewered over his fascination with communist dictators — like his lauding of the tyrannical Cuban despot Fidel Castro back in 2020 during a "60 Minutes" interview and subsequent CNN town hall.

Following his controversial statement in the interview that it’s “unfair to simply say everything [about Castro’s Cuba] is bad,” Sanders doubled down in the town hall.

“When Fidel Castro first came to power ... you know what he did? He initiated a major literacy program,” Sanders retorted.

“There was a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate, and he formed a literacy brigade. ... They went out, and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what I think? Teaching people to read and write is a good thing,” he added.

“Wow, a literacy program,” mocks Levin. “But you weren't allowed to read what you wanted to read. You weren't allowed to say what you wanted to say. There was no right to speech, free speech, or any other kind of speech unless it was dictated by the government.”

Castro, he reminds, was “a genocidal maniac who was killing people and throwing them in prison,” and his “literacy brigades” were “filled with people who had allegiance to [him] and the communists.”

“They were not just going into homes to teach literacy. They were going in their homes to spy,” says Levin.

Sanders caveated his praise of Castro’s literacy initiative by arguing he’s been “critical of all authoritarian regimes all over the world,” including Cuba’s, but Levin calls him a “a liar.”

“He used to defend all the communist leaders. Now, he's got a little more clever in his extremely old age,” he corrects.

“He supported the communist leader in Nicaragua. ... He supported the communist leader in Cuba. He supported the communist leader in the old Soviet Union when he honeymooned in Moscow,” Levin adds.

Sanders capped his defense of Castro by arguing, “I happen to believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”

“No, he doesn't believe in democracy,” says Levin, citing George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” in which he argued that political language is often manipulated by authoritarians to mask their wicked ends.

Sanders is “a Stalinist,” he says.

“This is why Bernie Sanders won't come on any of my shows. He will not come on any of my shows because he knows I'm going to question him.”

To see the clip of Sanders and hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Who is funding Zohran Mamdani?



If government-funded grocery stores didn’t tip you off that something was off about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, some recent findings about his past should do the trick.

Mamdani is currently in a very comfortable lead and according to the polls will likely win NYC’s mayoral race, but a recent report claimed that the beloved socialist is tied to the man who funded and staged the anti-ICE riots.

“The anti-ICE riots that weren’t organic. They weren’t grassroots. They weren’t by accident. They weren’t a coalition of outraged individuals who all gathered together to voice their grievances against the government. No, no. They were paid. They were staged. They were orchestrated,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler explains.


The man in question behind these anti-ICE riots is Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

“Now remember, American citizens don’t get to just live in China the way that we in America allow foreigners to live in our country. In order to live more than a visit to China, that requires special permission from the Chinese Communist Party, which evidently was obtained by Roy Singham, who lives there with his wife,” Wheeler says.

His wife, Jodie Evans, is the founder of the anti-war organization Code Pink.

“You know those angry naked feminists that march around? That’s Jodie Evans’ organization,” she says. “Roy Singham is the man behind the violent riots that we have seen in recent years in the United States of America. Roy Singham funds pro-Hamas groups on college campuses.”

When Zohran Mamdani was in college, he started a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which Wheeler says “in and of itself is association with Roy Singham,” but it “just touches the surface.”

On July 12, 2025, the New York Post published an exclusive report on a woman associated with Mamdani’s campaign.

“This report received a fraction of the attention it deserved given what a bombshell revelation it includes,” Wheeler says.

The report claims that the niece of Roy Singham spearheaded the Jews for Zohran Mamdani campaign in order to give the “Israel-bashing candidate” cover from anti-Semitism accusations and win Jewish voters.

Jews for Zohran Mamdani is also working with city comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Jerry Nadler to persuade more Jews, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman, to back Mamdani for mayor.

“Zohran Mamdani is not just the front-runner, he’s the presumptive winner,” Wheeler says. “He might soon be mayor of the biggest city in the United States, but his rise to prominence was not organic, wasn’t grassroots.”

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'It makes me want to puke': Dave Portnoy reacts to political advice from AOC, Zohran Mamdani supporters



Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy was disturbed to hear what some young voters are advocating for.

Young activists expressed their support for politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a progressive event in Washington, D.C., recently.

The Fighting for Our Future event featured Democrat speakers and even former Democratic National Committee vice chair and anti-gun activist David Hogg.

During an appearance on Fox News, Portnoy was asked to react to some of the political leanings of the progressives who went to the event.

'These are college kids, they've never probably had a job in their lives.'

"I think more politicians should be adopting socialism," an attendee named Reihena Djema told Fox News.

"Seeing people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC just gaining so much more footing and so much more recognition in the policy field is very empowering," said university student Zainab Chowdry.

Portnoy reacted to the clips on Fox News' "Varney & Co.," saying, "It makes me want to puke. ... That's how I feel about that."

The business owner continued, "These are college kids. They've never probably had a job in their lives. They've grown up probably coddled, reading books about how the world is, but they've never been in the real world."

The 48-year-old started Barstool Sports around 2004 and has routinely expressed his dislike of socialist policies. He told host Stuart Varney that he disapproves of "any" form of government that "disincentivizes initiative."

"Socialism doesn't work. There's plenty examples of it. ... I just fundamentally have a hard time with a 19- or a 20-year-old ... I just can't have somebody who has been alive for five seconds lecturing me on the ways of the world," Portnoy added.

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AOC and Mamdani were top of mind for those who spoke on record with Fox News at the socialist event, with Djema adding that she "really like[s] AOC," except for the fact that the congresswoman is not sufficiently "vocal about Palestine."

"But other than that, I really think that she should be the leader of the Democratic Party as she is a Democratic socialist."

Djema also said that it is "really important" to be "class-conscious" and "remove ourselves from this neoliberal idea that it's okay to do capitalism and exploit workers."

As well, a high school student named Ayan Molodina described Mamdani and AOC as "inspiring."

"Someone like Mamdani, a Muslim like me, and Zainab here, it's so inspiring to see. I think that someone like that in 2028 can carry a lot of momentum. I think people are so excited."

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Portnoy shared the segment from Fox News with his X followers and added an older interview he had with a communist activist.

In 2016, Portnoy squabbled with a mask-wearing Antifa activist over the fruits of his labor. After Portnoy asked the young man if he would still feel the same about capitalism if he had worked as hard and earned as much as Portnoy has, the activist told him he would not "build [himself] up by exploiting other people's labor."

Portnoy retorted by asking the activist if he had ever been to Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Leftists' favorite F-word — and why they'll never drop it



I notice to my profound disappointment that two of my major scholarly projects landed with a thud. Despite years of research and two books on fascism and antifascism, my findings have been ignored by both the left and the right — including the so-called conservative media establishment.

That’s a pity, especially with so much loose talk about “fascists” running around Washington these days.

Fascism, as it existed in the 20th century, is dead. Antifascism, as it is wielded today, is a political weapon that thrives by manufacturing enemies.

My argument is straightforward: Fascism was a popular European movement in the interwar period, shaped by several conditions unique to that era — returning soldiers who saw themselves as a “front generation” after World War I, economic turmoil in countries like Italy, France, Romania, and Spain, disillusionment with corrupt parliamentary systems, and a “cult of the leader.”

Fascist movements also fed on fears of the Soviet takeover of Russia. Unlike the communists, who worked to spark revolutions across Europe, fascist groups pushed a revolutionary nationalist ideology.

The most representative example was Benito Mussolini’s Italian movement, which came to power after his March on Rome in October 1922. Italy was the only country to establish a full-fledged fascist government, although fascist or fascist-like parties held influence in coalitions elsewhere. The Italian regime blended a cult of the leader with corporatist economics and nostalgia for imperial glory.

Contrary to the later alliance with Hitler, Mussolini’s government initially drew support from patriotic Italian Jews and between 1934 and 1936 led European opposition to Nazi Germany, denouncing its anti-Semitism as barbaric. The 1938 anti-Jewish laws came only under heavy German influence.

Nazism was not “generic” fascism. Hannah Arendt was right to classify it as totalitarian and genocidal. While Hitler borrowed certain trappings from Latin fascists, Nazi Germany drew far more from Stalin’s Soviet model — particularly in its use of terror, secret police, and propaganda to remake reality.

Equating Mussolini’s authoritarian nationalism with Hitler’s genocidal regime is intellectually lazy, even if Mussolini’s disastrous decision to ally with Nazi Germany at the 11th hour paved the way for the comparison.

My critic Jacob Siegel accuses me of drawing this distinction to “sanitize” fascism. Not so. I do not treat it as an archaic movement out of nostalgia but because it is irrelevant to the contemporary West, which is dominated instead by a woke, bureaucratic left.

Antifascism, however, is another matter. It began with Marxists — and later communist regimes — branding capitalist nations that resisted revolution as “fascist.” The Frankfurt School and its American heirs expanded the label to cover ideas and movements far removed from Mussolini or Hitler. By the 1950s, an “F-scale” was used to screen government employees and teachers for supposed fascist sympathies.

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Today, “antifascists” slap the term on anything that conflicts with their politics or lifestyle. Esteemed Yale professors Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley insist our current president is not only a fascist but possibly a Nazi. In their view, opposing any part of the feminist or LGBTQ agenda puts one on the road to Hitlerian tyranny.

This rhetorical game serves a purpose: It shields the accusers from the obvious countercharge that they are the true totalitarians. In my book on antifascism, written as Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots engulfed American cities in 2020, I documented how the American left and its European counterparts mobilize with the same discipline and ruthlessness as the Nazis before they took power.

The difference is that today’s left faces no organized counterforce comparable to the German communists — and enjoys the support of a compliant media. That media not only excuses leftist violence but portrays it as justified. This mirrors the Nazi and communist tactic of claiming to be under siege even while holding power, using the manufactured threat as a pretext to crush dissent.

Fascism, as it existed in the 20th century, is dead. Antifascism, as it is wielded today, is a political weapon that thrives by manufacturing enemies. And the left is using it with remarkable success.

Mamdani’s Socialist Group Backs ‘Death To Imperialism’ Summit Praising North Korea

'Demonization and caricaturing of the DPRK'

Democrats wanted a makeover. They got Marxism and Molotov cocktails.



In February, Democratic Party operatives and elected officials met for a retreat in Virginia hosted by Third Way, a self-described center-left organization. Their goal: develop a strategy to reverse the party’s hard-left drift and reconnect with working-class voters.

They brainstormed ways to neutralize the far-left infrastructure that now defines the party. Among their key recommendations? Embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery. Show up at tailgates, gun shows, local diners, and churches.

Corporate media and DC careerists will pretend these protesters don’t represent the party. They’ll try to repackage the fury in the streets as civic activism. But we won’t let them.

That plan flopped.

Democrats didn’t pivot to working-class America. They ran straight back into the arms of their radical base. By June, they had poured money and institutional support into the No Kings protests erupting nationwide.

These protests didn’t happen at tailgates or in small-town churches. They returned to the same streets torched during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 — angrier, louder, and even more extreme.

And the party cheered them on.

From Hillary Clinton to Chuck Schumer, Democrat leaders lined up in support. Corporate media echoed their talking points. None of them could rein in their base. More damning, none of them wanted to.

The protests weren’t fringe outbursts. In fact, they revealed the party’s core. Their rhetoric was radical. Their goals were openly anti-democratic. Many participants waved explicitly communist banners, marched under Marxist slogans, and called for the dismantling of American institutions.

That imagery — the rage, the theatrics, the ideological extremism — was exactly what February’s conference attendees feared. But it’s now the public face of the Democratic Party. The working class isn’t clamoring for more street theatrics. They want real solutions from people in power.

So we at the Oversight Project did what we do best: investigate.

We focused on a key protest organizer, a group called 50501 — short for “50 protests in 50 states for 1 movement.” Its website paints a clear picture. Placards read “Impeach the dictator,” “Impeach the bitch,” and “No one is illegal on stolen land.” Moderate? Hardly.

We compiled Instagram activity from 50501’s state chapters — 34 in total, plus Washington, D.C., and several national branches. We tracked who its social media managers followed, and what emerged was a clear pattern of associations: communist, neo-Marxist, anti-American, and foreign-aligned groups.

These protests didn’t bubble up from the grassroots. They were built from the same radical networks that have long tried to destabilize the country from within.

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Seventeen accounts followed nearly 20 accounts tied to the Party for Socialism and Liberation — a Marxist-Leninist group that splintered from the Workers World Party. One of its former members carried out the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.

Thirty-three accounts followed Democratic Socialists of America pages. Sixteen followed Students for a Democratic Society. Twelve connected with Students for Justice in Palestine.

Many accounts also followed known foreign-aligned activist groups, including Code Pink — famous for its disruptions in congressional hearings — and the Act Now to Stop War and Racism coalition (ANSWER).

Naturally, we found ties to Antifa as well, including groups like Anti-Fascist Aktion and prominent members such as @PunkwithACamera.

We wish we had this report back in February. We would’ve printed it out and handed it to every Democrat in attendance — just to watch their faces drop as they saw what their party has become.

This is the story of the American left for the next decade: the radical tail wagging the party dog.

Corporate media and D.C. careerists will pretend these protesters don’t represent the party. They’ll try to repackage the fury in the streets as civic activism. But we won’t let them.

We’ll keep exposing the ties. We’ll name the names. And we’ll make sure every Democrat trying to rebrand ahead of 2028 wears the consequences of these alliances around their necks.

The REAL reason New York City is so expensive



New York City is the most expensive city in the United States because the high demand for limited space drives up costs for housing, goods, and services, right?

Well, not exactly. While it’s true that high demand and limited space impact any city’s cost of living, the adoption of Marxist policies are heavily to blame for the unaffordability crisis in NYC.

“Why is New York City so expensive? It has the highest taxes in the country. ... It has more regulations than anybody can keep track of,” Mark Levin says.

The city’s effort to make living more affordable via rent controls has only made matters worse because developers opt to “build more luxury [residences] ... to bypass the rent control and to sell to wealthy people,” making “housing for people who have average incomes less and less affordable and in some areas unaffordable,” he explains.

As for the exorbitant cost of food in NYC, taxes — “taxes on the people who sell the food, taxes on restaurants, taxes on delicatessens and pizzerias” — are to blame, Levin says. Other government-imposed factors, specifically regulations and labor requirements such as high minimum wages, prevent would-be business owners from entering the market.

Levin finds it ironic that the very government policies — like rent controls and high minimum wages — that are imposed to make the city more affordable are actually what make NYC so expensive.

Unfortunately, New Yorkers can’t seem to connect the dots, which is why they continue electing people like Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate who’s an open socialist. He’s proposing stricter rent controls and an even higher minimum wage, as well as city-owned grocery stores and free public transportation, among other Marxist policies. He’s even expressed his desire to “seize the means of production” — an idea that “comes straight out of the ‘Communist Manifesto.’”

Many of these voters buy into the false narrative that it’s capitalism and billionaires making life unaffordable, when in fact it's capitalism that gives us freedom to ascend in the ranks and puts the power of destiny in our hands.

“Capitalism is a godsend,” Levin says, but “for the Marxists, it must be destroyed.”

Mamdani and others like him sell a vision of a “workers’ paradise” where affordability is no longer an issue, but the reality of that vision is a society where “individualism and freedom” are treated like “poison.” It’s a world where “the family, the church, [and] the synagogue” are seen as “competing social structures” that need to be “annihilated.” The people who previously “created the wealth” are disincentivized to do the very things that led to wealth, so they move away.

This is the fate of New York City if Mamdani comes into power, Levin warns.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the clip above.

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