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New York City’s new Democratic Socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been in the news for days now because he is having trouble balancing the gaps in the city’s annual budget. It turns out that providing stuff for ‘free’ is actually pretty expensive.
Mamdani is threatening to raise property taxes as he struggles to come up with billions in additional revenue.
The entire affair has been a stark reminder of the stunning size of the city’s budget and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has chimed in to add some amazing perspective.
‘Warmth of Collectivism’ Update: DeSantis Puts Mamdani’s NYC $127B Budget Into Mind-Numbing Perspective
Our story begins with Mamdani on Tuesday posting what amounts to a whiny post on X about his new proposed budget, in which he threw a hissy fit:
Today, I’m releasing the City’s preliminary budget. After years of fiscal mismanagement, we’re staring at a $5.4 billion budget gap — and two paths.
One: Albany can raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and the most profitable corporations and address the fiscal imbalance between our city and state.
The other, a last resort: balance the budget on the backs of working people using the only tools at the City’s disposal.
The first path matches a structural crisis with a sustainable and fair solution. I know where I stand.
New Yorkers voted for bold change and competent leadership. We will deliver both, and we look forward to partnering with Albany to protect working New Yorkers…
His new tax scheme isn’t just aimed at the “rich.” It’s a full-blown grab at the wallets of working and middle-class New Yorkers —the same people already crushed by the city’s record cost of living. His schtick of sounding reluctant was disingenuous at best: the Democrat playbook is clear: tax, spend, panic about deficits, continue to raise taxes.
This is where Ron DeSantis enters the chat and reminds everyone that the budget for the entire state of Florida is $117 billion.
The ever-beaming Zohran Mamdani, now His Honor and Mayor of New York City, now takes his place as the newest anointed rescuer of the Democratic Party and America’s political left. The nation’s political parties often define themselves by generational transformations, and each comes with the name. For the Democratic Party, the defining ages of the modern era have been named for Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. On the Republican side, the most transformative figures have been Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Each was first seen rising on a political horizon, next seen as plausible leaders, and then seen as inevitable. Each defined an epoch.
It’s far too early to see the post-Trump Republican figure who can redefine the party for generations, but on the Democratic side, betting types should put their money on Mayor Mamdani. Born outside the United States, Mamdani can’t be president, but the fact that he can’t aspire to the Oval Office doesn’t change the fact that Mamdani is now set to redefine the Democratic Party and the political left. Leftist voters see Mamdani as a savior figure, predestined to redefine the Democrats and to bring in a new age of collectivization, high taxes, ever-expanding government, a gargantuan welfare state, and, just to make the picture perfect, government-run grocery stores. What could go wrong?
Mamdani has made so many promises that even the left can’t keep them straight. There is universal free child care, free bus rides, increased rent controls, higher taxes on the wealthy, peace on earth, and good will among men (or, in Mandani’s fever dream, whatever gender you choose at the moment).
Of course, the last time Gotham tried this was with the election of John Lindsey, who served as NYC mayor from 1966 to 1973. Lindsey’s attempt to enact a leftist dream left the city in a financial disaster that was nearly its ruin. The central ideas of Mamdani’s political dream come right out of the Marxist nightmare. It’s not that they haven’t been tried, it’s that they have produced immeasurable human misery wherever they have been adopted.
In his inaugural address, Mamdani hit the themes openly and boldly, claiming the virtue of audacity. “We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology for what we believe,” he boasted. “I was elected as a Democratic Socialist and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.” Well, indeed he is radical. He got that much right.
Mandani openly promised collectivism. He came right out and said it: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” The warmth of collectivism? That phrase was intentional, honest, and spectacularly scary. Just ask the average Soviet citizen during the age of the USSR. All they collected was bone-crushing poverty and soul-crushing totalitarianism.
The inaugural ceremony was a parable (or parody?) of leftist dreams. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., offered the ceremonial oath of office and ranted as usual. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also took part, and the picture was nearly complete. Together, AOC, Bernie, and Mayor Mamdani intend to redefine the Democratic Party in light of their own democratic socialism, and younger Democratic voters are lining up to join the revolution.
The ironies were thick, as were the symbolic acts. Mayor Mamdani took the oath of office with his hand on a Qur’an, and the event was declared to be a sign of burgeoning Muslim influence in mainstream culture. Of course, they would not want you to actually read the Qur’an, for that would pour cold water on Mamdani’s ardent social liberalism, right down to radical positions in devotion to the LGBTQ cause. A civilization truly founded on Qur’anic principles would be radically incompatible with Western civilization, but a Muslim who smilingly advocates leftist ideologies is too good to pass up. The new mayor has declared that he will not visit Israel. He is unlikely to visit most of the Muslim world as well, where Muslims who actually follow the Qur’an, to state the matter delicately, would be unlikely to welcome a mayor committed to transgender ideologies.
Mamdani is an anti-Semite even as he insists that he is not. His hatred of Israel as a Jewish state was clear long before he immediately signed executive orders, including one that withdrew a widely respected international definition of anti-Semitism. He was raised by leftist parents and grew up around Palestinian ideologues, and it shows.
At the national level, Republicans have to see Mamdani as an undeserved gift. His election, and the genuflection of national Democratic leaders to him, indicate that younger Democratic voters are done with the likes of old liberals like Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and maybe even California Gov. Gavin Newsom. At the very least, their party is veering to the left and even Newsom is in danger of being left behind. The Democrats are running into a socialist dream, and that simply can’t go well. That doesn’t mean that Republicans won’t find a way to lose, but it does mean that “the warmth of collectivism” is an impending catastrophe at the national level.
But, for now, Democratic Party leaders are all smiles. Don’t be fooled. Those smiling Democrats have to know they have just been handed a grinning socialist disaster.
This article originally appeared at WORLD Opinions on January 6, 2026.
A growing pattern of support for communism within Democratic politics is becoming harder to ignore, especially as candidates and officials push policies that expand government control while downplaying ideological labels.
The trend was on full display in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani won election while openly embracing democratic socialism. Progressive Democrats applauded the victory, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Mamdani’s rise confirmed that elements of the Democratic Party are no longer flirting with socialist ideas; they are campaigning on them openly and unapologetically.
But he’s not the only one. And the pattern is extremely disturbing.
Virginia presents a more subtle but equally revealing example, one rooted in messaging discipline rather than transparency. As Washington Times columnist Robert Knight details, Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-Va) campaigned as a pragmatic moderate, aided by press assurances that Democrats would govern with restraint. Yet Knight documents that once Democrats secured full control of the General Assembly and the governor’s office, the agenda shifted rapidly. Constitutional amendments, election law changes, criminal sentencing rollbacks, and expansive taxation proposals followed in quick succession.
Spanberger herself acknowledged in a leaked 2020 conversation that Democrats should avoid using the word “socialism,” a warning that Knight argues was less about ideology and more about optics during campaigns.
The substance of Virginia’s legislative agenda reinforces concerns about centralized power and weakened safeguards. According to Knight, Va Democrats are moving to limit voter-roll verification, extend absentee ballot counting, restrict hand counts, and authorize ranked-choice voting, while positioning the legislature to redraw congressional maps. Other proposals remove mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes, raise fees across nearly every consumer transaction despite a multibillion-dollar surplus, and re-enter regional climate compacts that raise household energy costs.
These measures reflect an aggressive governing philosophy that prioritizes bureaucratic authority over accountability, and ideological objectives over voter consent once political control is secured. That’s communism, or politely, democratic socialism.
Whether through open admission or strategic concealment, the direction is increasingly clear. In New York, voters were offered socialism by name. In Virginia, Robert Knight argues, voters were sold moderation and given sweeping ideological change once the election was over.
Ephesians 5:6 offers a warning that resonates in moments shaped by rhetoric and reality colliding: “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.”
Communism replaces God with the state. People of God who vote for such ought to do some very deep self-examination. Political movements may rebrand themselves, but truth eventually surfaces in policy, cost, and consequences that citizens are left to bear. But even more, what are the eternal consequences of supporting such godless movements?
Zohran Mamdani has been mayor of New York City for less than a month and he is already talking about raising taxes on the ‘wealthy’ to make up the city’s budget deficit, which he claims is on par with the Great Recession.
Get ready to see a lot of Uhauls leaving the city.
New York Mayor Mamdani says city must hike taxes on wealthy to fill $12 billion deficit
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday said the city’s wealthiest must pay more in taxes to help fill the staggering budget deficit of more than $12 billion that he was left by his predecessor.
“This is at a scale that’s actually greater than what we saw here in New York City during the Great Recession,” Mamdani said of that budget hole during an interview with CNBC “Squawk Box” co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at City Hall.
The Democrat, who took office on Jan. 1 after campaigning on a platform of hiking taxes on the rich, attributed the big deficit to “gross fiscal mismanagement.”
He pointed to actions taken by former Mayor Eric Adams, and by ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom he soundly defeated in the November general election, for causing that budget gap.
Mamdani vowed that his administration will be up front with New Yorkers about budget issues that have been “hidden from them for far too long.”
City Comptroller Mark Levine earlier this month said the new mayor faces a budget shortfall that is projected to total $12.6 billion over the next two fiscal years.
That comprises a $2.2 billion projected deficit on the city’s nearly $116 billion budget for fiscal 2026, which ends on June 30, and a $10.4 billion gap in fiscal 2027.
See the video below:
🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a “Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession”
“That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.” pic.twitter.com/ck89QhFFwL
A common crime of American politics occurs when a politician jazzes up the base with partisan rhetoric only to transform into a muddled centrist after Election Day. At least for now, New York City’s smiling socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is not guilty of that crime. But if he keeps on this track, he’ll be guilty of much worse.
Mamdani’s January 1 inauguration ushers in what the wet-behind-the-ears mayor calls a “new era” of Democratic Socialist leadership for the largest city in the nation — the same nation that defeated the Soviets, by the way.
He was sworn in twice, first just after midnight at a private ceremony in a defunct subway station and then again at a block party in the afternoon.
“We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology for what we believe,” Mamdani said during remarks at his second ceremony. “I was elected as a Democratic Socialist, and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”
Aside from the fiery rhetoric, the symbolism of Mamdani’s inaugural proceedings is striking.
Mamdani forsook the traditional Bible and instead was sworn in on a Quran. Muslim mayor governing non-Muslim populations is a picture that has become increasingly common in Western Europe and has finally reached the shores of the U.S.
The first swearing-in was conducted by avowed anti-Trump New York Attorney General Letitia James (D). The second time, Mamdani was sworn in by fellow Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who was born in Brooklyn but has represented a different state, Vermont, since 2007. Despite hailing from a different state, Mamdani couldn’t resist having the leader of his Democratic-Socialist party put to rest any thought that Mamdani might revert to traditional Democratic politics upon taking office.
Mamdani also sworn in at midnight. Perhaps the hour is late for the city.
In his speech, Mamdani not only doubled down on the lofty promises of socialist utopia, but he also took shots at the foundation of America’s identity.
“We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
Socialist leaders are known for lying, for making promises they cannot fulfill. But with his opening line of the inauguration speech, Mamdani likely told the truth:
“My fellow New Yorkers,” he said. “Today begins a new era.”
Mamdani continued his speech, unafraid of embracing terms once considered landmines in American politics.
“Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously,” he said. “We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. To those who insist that the era of big government is over. Hear me when I say this. No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers’ lives.”
Practically, Mamdani promised a mental health department that takes certain 911 calls out of the hands of police, which is a top prescriptive takeaway from the “Defund the Police” movement. Mamdani also emphasized property tax reform and cracking down on crooked landlords.
“We will transform the culture of City Hall from one of no to one of how we will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy,” he continued.
Mamdani, born in Africa, raised in New York, and recently naturalized, appealed not to the U.S. Constitution or Declaration of Independence in his speech, but to Nelson Mandela.
“… We will provide our own answer to that age-old question: who does New York belong to?” Mamdani said. “Well, my friends, we can look to Madiba and the South African Freedom Charter.”
With eloquence reminiscent of Barack Obama in 2008, Mamdani welcomed even former Trump voters into his coalition.
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty,” he said.
Mamdani’s appearance comes at a relative high point for socialism in the U.S. Now, socialism has a chance to flounder or fulfill the big government pledges where so many liberal college gradugates in New York City have set their hope.
Normally rhetoric like Mamdani’s comes from the kind of places where the cigars are famous but the food is rationed. For now, though, his supporters will have their fill of lofty promises.
Lastly, and maybe the most striking of the symbolism for the trained eye… it’s interesting that Mamdani chose to receive the mayor’s authority in a ceremony underground. From below the city, he may drag his fellow residents into a socialist hell.
Or at least into the sewers.
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While the rest of America celebrated the arrival of a new year, a different celebration was happening in New York City. Zohran Mamdani, a far-left socialist and radical Muslim, officially became the city’s new mayor.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) pledged to govern the Big Apple as a Democratic Socialist during his inauguration speech and declared he would revive “the era of big government.”
After taking the official oath of office with his left hand on a Quran at City Hall early Thursday morning, the newly minted 34-year-old mayor took a ceremonial oath of office from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the afternoon.
Mamdani vowed to hold to the radical views he pushed during his campaign against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
We have spent months warning intercessors about Mamdani’s radical beliefs. Now that he’s been inaugurated, he seems to be making good on even his most devious promises. As he said during his inauguration speech, “I was elected as a Democratic Socialist, and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist.”
It’s clear to see just how radical Mamdani is from the company he keeps. As Breitbart noted, he took a ceremonial oath of office from Senator Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke at the Mayor’s swearing-in ceremony. She highlighted Mamdani’s “ambitious pursuit of universal child care, affordable rent and housing, and clean and dignified public transit,” all common socialist talking points. Both Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez are avowed Democratic Socialists just like the new Mayor.
Less than a week into office, the Mayor has already taken decisive action. According to The Hill, one of Mamdani’s first actions was to undo a number of orders signed by former Mayor Eric. This included an order that formally recognized the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, as well as one preventing city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel.
It’s clear we’ve only seen a taste of what is to come. Let’s pray for New York as it suffers under this socialist agenda, and let’s pray for God’s will to be done in the city!
How are you praying for New York City in the wake of Mamdani’s inauguration? Share your prayers and scriptures below.
(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
As Bernie Sanders was speaking at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration on Thursday, a number of people in the crowd broke into a chant of ‘tax the rich.’
The stupidity on display here is appalling. Do these people really believe that their lives will improve if the government forcefully takes more money away from other people? Do they think the New York City government is going to take money from others and give it to them? Do they honestly believe that if ‘the rich’ are forced to pay more in taxes, it is going to fund programs that will benefit them?
‘Tax the rich’ chant breaks out as Bernie Sanders swears in NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
A raucous chant of “tax the rich” broke out as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the wealthy and called out “hatred and divisiveness” before swearing in fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor.
“At a time in our country’s history when we are seeing too much hatred, too much divisiveness and too much injustice, thank you for electing Zohran Mamdani as your mayor,” Sanders said outside City Hall.
He then argued that Mamdani’s socialist agenda, including free buses and taxing the rich was not “radical,” sparking the chant.
After Sanders administered the ceremonial oath of office to Mamdani, the new mayor addressed the crowd, saying he planned to govern “expansively and audaciously.”
For too long, he argued, New York belonged to the “wealthy and well connected,” but no longer, Mamdani vowed.
See the video below:
'TAX THE RICH': Mamdani's inauguration crowd erupts when Sen. Bernie Sanders calls on "the wealthy and large corporations" to pay "their fair share of taxes."
The rich people and corporations that Bernie insists are not paying their ‘fair share’ already pay the lion’s share of taxes in New York and the rest of the country.
If ‘the rich’ are pressed to pay more in New York City, many of them will simply leave, or find new ways to shelter their wealth. If we had a functioning education system instead of the political indoctrination system it has become, more people would understand this simple point.
New York City is about to learn a painful lesson in basic economics.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can get in front of as many cameras as he can, but that doesn’t seem to be helping the beleaguered New York Democrat.
According to a new poll from Gallup released Dec. 22, Schumer will end 2025 as Washington, D.C.’s least popular major politician, beating 13 others to the bottom of the rankings.
Schumer’s 28 percent approval rating puts him below his Republican counterpart, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune (34 percent approval), Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (37 percent), President Donald Trump (36 percent), Vice President J.D. Vance (39 percent), Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (39 percent), and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (36 percent).
And just consider that last count: The media has spent the entirety of 2025 beating up on Hegseth for imaginary scandals blown up to Brobdingnagian proportions — and he still polls eight points ahead of Chuck Schumer.
What’s more, there isn’t a single political group that has a positive opinion of Schumy: Only 16 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of independents disapprove of him, and only 39 percent of Democrats approve of him.
The only other figure who is below water with every political group is Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell — but he still managed a 44 percent approval rating.
The poll, taken between Dec. 1-15, had a margin of error of 4 percent.
“Schumer’s rating among his own party has worsened markedly. Two years ago, 76% of Democrats approved of his job and 20% disapproved, but now 39% approve and 56% disapprove,” Gallup said in a media release.
This isn’t an outlier, either, as the New York Post noted.
“A Siena College poll of New York state voters taken last month also showed Schumer with his lowest approval rating in 21 years of surveys. A majority of voters in deep blue New York had an unfavorable view of the longtime senator,” the outlet reported.
There are a number of takeaways here, among them that politicians across the board are unpopular — but at least they’re mostly popular with their own people. Schumer, 75, has no power base.
After getting flak for avoiding a shutdown in the spring, then leading a shutdown in the fall that got the Democrats virtually nothing in return for keeping the federal government shuttered for over a month, he’s widely seen as impotent and decrepit in a Beltway environment that, after the debacle that was Joe Biden’s final years, emphasizes youth and action.
And aside from the shutdown debacles, there was also the issue of Schumer’s pointed distance from the Democrats’ rising star of 2025, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. As NJ.com noted, the lawmaker’s refusal to endorse the Democratic nominee led to some questioning his leadership more loudly.
Take Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a rising star within the party who posted this after Mamdani’s win and the shutdown L:
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
Schumer has made it clear he has no intention of going anywhere without a fight, and the fight, from all appearances, is being taken to him. Not just via social media posts, either.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been leading in virtually every poll in a primary battle against Schumer, who is up for reelection in 2028. AOC might decline, because a senatorial campaign would end her chances at the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination — a position polls also show her plausibly able to capture, God help us — but there are no shortage of Democrats in New York state who want higher office, some of whom haven’t even killed nursing home patients or sexually harassed staffers.
And that’s assuming he wants to run or maintains his position as party leader. Entering his ninth year as head of the Democratic caucus in the upper chamber, his clout is long past the point of diminishing returns. He can get in front of as many cameras as he wants, but he’s spent a career doing that, and he’s now the least-popular major political figure in Washington by a not-insubstantial margin.
Heck, things are so bad at this point, even the camera might become sentient and turn itself off in disgust. When things are that bad, it might be time for Chuck to just give up and retire.
New York City, historically shaped by European immigrants, is now a diverse, multiethnic hub, electing Ugandan-born Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor amid decades of demographic transformation.
New York City was once the quintessentially American metropolis, the birthplace of John Jay and the home of the Roosevelts, the Astors, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts, a forge of American industry, ingenuity, and culture.
Now, New York is still the largest and most populous city in the United States, but it’s become a multicultural, multiethnic bazaar, teeming with foreign languages, foreign foods, and foreign customs, carved up into ethnic immigrant enclaves.
Recently, New York demonstrated just how deeply this foreign incursion has entrenched itself when voters elected a Ugandan-born Muslim and self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as the city’s new mayor.
Across the country, Americans looked on in shock as Mamdani soared ahead in the polls, even besting former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo, son of another former New York governor, Mario Cuomo, and heir to the family’s now-toppled political dynasty.
But the Ugandan-Indian Muslim’s ascent was not precipitated by a vacuum, but rather by years of lax and reckless immigration policy, transforming New York City from an American metropolitan monolith into a messy Mecca for new arrivals from the third world who have demonstrated no interest in assimilating to American culture.
NYC: Gateway to America
During the American Revolutionary War, New York City was captured by the British, halting what little immigration there was at the time. The journey from Europe to the New World was a long and arduous one, requiring weeks or even months at sea, and the war offered little promise of prosperity upon reaching America’s shore.
However, once the War ended, New York City began reasserting itself as a hub for commerce, aided by its ports and relative ease of access to other burgeoning American cities, like Boston to the north and Philadelphia and Baltimore to the south.
The growing promise of success and fortune in the city attracted new arrivals, but only an estimated 35,000 people came to New York between the end of the war and 1820. The entirety of those new arrivals was European: merchants from England and loyalists who had fled during the war, labourers and workmen from British-dominated Ireland, Scottish Protestants, and German farmers made up the bulk of the new arrivals, but some Dutch and French immigrants also made their way to New York City.
At this time, the Naturalization Act of 1790 was the only real piece of legislation governing immigration, offering citizenship only to “free white persons” of “good character”, although the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 did allow for the arrest and deportation of foreigners considered “dangerous”, such as French radicals or anarchists. There was no central hub for processing immigrants, either, and immigration law was essentially enforced sporadically, with random checks by authorities at the wharves where ships would dock.
The next century would see an increasing surge in immigration to New York City, although immigrants still hailed almost exclusively from Europe. Federal immigration record-keeping began in 1820 as the city underwent an industrial and economic boom. New York City became the nation’s dominant port, particularly for immigrants.
As many as three million immigrants arrived in the Big Apple between 1820 and 1880, the vast majority (nearly two million) from Ireland. Irish farmers, labourers, and peasants were fleeing the Great Famine, arriving in “coffin ships,” so named because many passengers died in transit due to overcrowding, lack of hygienic conditions, and disease.
The Steerage Act of 1819 imposed regulations on passenger ships, in an effort to prevent overcrowding and the spread of disease, and required a passenger manifest. In part prompted by the arrival of the “coffin ships”, New York City opened Castle Garden, a formal inspection centre for vetting and welcoming European immigrants and ensuring that the regulations of the Steerage Act were adhered to.
Half a million immigrants also arrived from England and Scotland, industrial workers eager to make a living in the new global centre of commerce; over a million Germans fleeing the 1848 revolutions; and a handful of Scandinavians and Italians, mostly from Sicily.
Workers built apartments, staffed factories, and constructed railroads. The 1862 Homestead Act promised land to those who moved west to settle, indirectly encouraging immigrants to make the long trek west and keeping New York from becoming overcrowded.
The next half century saw the greatest immigration influx into New York City yet: between 1880 and 1924, New York City officials processed some 12 million new arrivals. Many of those new arrivals continued their journey west, but the city’s population still quintupled in the space of 44 years.
Once again, the new arrivals hailed from Europe. While the mid-1800s saw the Irish flood New York, the turn of the century saw millions of Italians move into the city, along with Slavs and Jews from Austria-Hungary, Russia, and later Poland, and hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Armenians fleeing slaughter and persecution at the hands of Muslim Ottomans.
The mass influx of the first quarter of the 20th century and the shock of the First World War prompted the U.S. to implement the 1924 Immigration Act, barring immigration from non-European countries, especially Asian countries, and limiting the number of immigrants who could be accepted from Europe to 165,000 per year, drastically cutting immigration across the board for the next four decades.
The Great Depression and the Second World War further cut the flow of immigrants in half. By 1910, roughly 40% of New York City’s population was foreign-born (again, almost entirely European), but the foreign-born population fell to less than 20% by 1950 as the Immigration Act took effect.
New York City’s founding stock and the first wave of immigration in the decades immediately following the end of the Revolutionary War laid the city’s ethnic foundation of English, Irish, and Germans. For the next century, immigration to the city was comprised almost exclusively of those ethnicities.
It wasn’t until the late 1800s that Southern and Eastern Europeans began arriving in meaningful numbers. Even then, almost all immigrants arriving in New York City before 1965 shared two common traits with both each other and those already living in the city: European ancestry and Christian faith.
Assimilation was relatively easy, as newcomers often shared European or European-based customs, a European understanding of law and culture, and a Christian faith with New Yorkers. In fact, New York City itself was based upon and rooted in European culture, law, and tradition. Before it became America’s most iconic metropolitan titan, New York City was a Dutch settlement called New Amsterdam. Its grid streets and early governance closely mirrored those of Dutch settlements in the Netherlands and Batavia.
Once the colonial city became the property of the English in 1664, it adopted English common law and rooted its governance in the Magna Carta, one of the foundational legal documents of the Western world. Much of the city’s governance structure is directly drawn from European roots, with the existing strong mayor-city council-borough presidents arrangement rooted in European customs, rather than Asian, African, or Middle Eastern forms of governance. In fact, the city’s government system, established by the 1686 Dongan Charter, was modelled directly on the government of London.
Many of the city’s most iconic buildings (Grand Central Terminal was designed in the Beaux-Arts style, directly imported from Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts, while the Federal-style architecture of City Hall was inspired by French and English neoclassical architecture, which was itself modelled after the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome) pay homage to the city’s European heritage, while the grand churches (both Trinity Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral were gothic revival structures, inspired by late medieval English and French churches) explicated the union between the city’s European heritage and its Christian roots. Even education was distinctly European: Columbia University’s curriculum was modelled after those of Oxford and Cambridge, while New York University was inspired by the European liberal arts tradition.
There were, of course, some difficulties and some conflict, particularly as the Irish began arriving en masse in the mid-19th century; their Catholic brand of Christianity was seen as subversive and potentially treasonous by many Protestants, and Nativist groups were concerned that Americans would soon be replaced by foreigners. Catholic Italians also caused a stir, particularly as organised crime began to take root under the banner of the mafia. But none of these difficulties would compare to what followed the Hart-Celler Act.
The Remaking of New York
Officially the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the Hart-Celler Act eliminated many of the quotas and safeguards implemented by the 1924 Immigration Act, drastically liberalising U.S. immigration policy. At the apex of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the nation’s immigration laws came to be derided as racially discriminatory, favouring white Europeans, particularly from the west and north of the continent, over other would-be immigrants. Senators Philip Hart (D-Mich.) and Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to right the supposed wrong, doing away with nearly all previous immigration restrictions.
Between 1924 and 1965, a period of 41 years, New York City saw roughly half a million immigrant arrivals. Between 1968, when the Hart-Celler Act went into effect, and the year 2000, a period of only 32 years, New York City saw nearly five million immigrants arrive. Unlike prior decades, only a few hundred thousand were European.
The vast majority came from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia: over half a million abandoning the Dominican Republic, hundreds of thousands coming from impoverished Puerto Rico, a quarter million from Jamaica and Haiti, 400,000 Chinese fleeing the communist brutality of Mao Zedong, 200,000 workers from India seeking jobs in America, and refugees from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. And those are only legal immigrants. President Ronald Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 granted amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, over 500,000 of whom were residing in New York City and were now given no reason to leave.
By 2000, New York City’s foreign-born population had risen again, sitting now at over a third (36%). Over 170 different languages were spoken in the city, and immigrant groups carved out their own enclaves, with Washington Heights transforming from a relatively small neighbourhood of single-family homes to a chaotic mess of brownstone apartment buildings and townhouses populated by Dominican and Cuban newcomers.
Security increased temporarily following the September 11 terrorist attacks, but the “global economy” once again drove immigration back up. Progressives obsessed with diversity quotas and Reagan-era conservatives fixated on the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) both found new ways to usher more and more foreigners into the U.S., with New York City accepting roughly three million immigrants between 2000 and 2020.
Once again, hardly any of the new arrivals hailed from Europe, instead coming from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Syria, Iraq, and other non-European nations. As of last year, roughly 40% of New York City’s population is foreign-born and nearly one-fifth are noncitizens. Additionally, the majority (62%) of children in New York live in a household with at least one foreign-born family member.
New York City’s post-Hart-Celler demographic makeup has fundamentally reshaped the city’s population and identity. No longer is there a shared ethnic background, nor even the loose bonds of a common European culture and the firmer bonds of a shared belief in Christ and His teachings.
America’s government was designed for a Christian people and is deeply rooted in the traditions of the West. Sharing this cultural and historical background allowed European immigrants over the years to readily understand and assimilate to New York City’s culture, its laws, its customs, and its identity.
This background is not one shared so deeply or so readily by those from South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The culture, laws, and customs to which they are accustomed and which they bring with them are not easily compatible with those which have governed and built New York City throughout the centuries. Over the past 60 years, New York City has imported nearly 10 million immigrants, largely from third-world countries.
Mayor Mamdani
“Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own,” New York City’s Ugandan-born Muslim mayor-elect said in his victory speech. “I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties,” he declared.
Mamdani’s comment was not a mere show of gratitude to a crucial voting bloc: the foreigner-turned-mayor was acknowledging that his fellow foreigners in New York City elected him because they are foreigners and he is a foreigner.
Hispanic, Asian, African, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern immigrants overwhelmingly vote as ethnic blocs, often based on shared ethnic interests. Multiplestudies have found that Hispanic immigrants tend to favour political candidates who pledge immigration liberalisation and anti-discrimination policies, voting for such candidates anywhere from 60% to 75% of the time.
A 2018 study conducted by Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal examined voting data from 2000 to 2016, concluding that Hispanic immigrants vote cohesively for Democrats due to “shared ethnic cues”, with turnout and bloc strength increasing in areas with high immigrant density.
Likewise, Asian immigrants also typically vote as a series of blocs, based upon national origin. According to the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey, Chinese, Indian, Filipino, and other Asian voters largely support Democrats, citing immigration and anti-discrimination policies as motivating factors, in addition to influence from ethnic social networks.
Second-generation Asian immigrants have also capitalised on social media to build ethnic-oriented social media networks and actually vote as a more cohesive bloc than their parents. Middle Eastern immigrants also tend to vote as an ethnic bloc, solidifying behind the Democratic Party following September 11, 2001.
A 2004 Migration Policy Institute report found that first-generation immigrants (roughly 40% of New York City’s current population) almost always vote ethnically, while the trend tends to weaken over successive generations. However, immigrant enclaves — such as those in New York — amplify ethnic bloc voting trends.
There are some outliers. Vietnamese and Cuban immigrants, for example, tend to buck the trend and vote for Republicans, often citing their own experiences with communist totalitarianism and the GOP’s opposition to left-wing authoritarianism. Likewise, Iranian immigrants are more likely to support Republicans than their fellow Middle-Eastern immigrants due to Republicans’ strong stance against the Iranian regime.
But these are the exceptions that prove the rule: short of escaping a brutal totalitarian regime or communist dictatorship, the majority of immigrant groups vote as ethnic blocs and favour whichever candidate embraces policies supporting the immigrant groups.
Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. His Ugandan father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a “postcolonialism” academic, and his Indian mother, Mira Nair, is a filmmaker. In an interview from 2013, Nair affirmed that her son is “not an American at all”. She described Mamdani as “a total desi”, a Hindustani term often used to refer to an ethnic Indian living abroad.
“We are not firangs at all,” she added. The term “firang”, often considered a racial slur, is a pejorative used to describe Westerners, especially Americans. “He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”
Throughout his campaign, Mamdani laid great emphasis on his foreignness. His campaign logo was modelled after Bollywood film posters, his campaign videos and ads were often bi- or multilingual, and his campaign signs and pamphlets were printed in dozens of languages, from Spanish to Hindi to Urdu.
He also focused his campaign events on immigrant enclaves, particularly Asian, Middle Eastern, and Muslim areas, ultimately doubling turnout among Muslim voters compared to 2021’s mayoral election. According to exit polls, a majority of every racial demographic voted for Mamdani, except for white voters. Additionally, only 43% of Protestants, 33% of Catholics, and 32% of Jews voted for Mamdani, while those of “other” religions, such as Islam and Hindu, voted for Mamdani by over 70%.
In the historical crime epic film Gangs of New York, centred on the real-life conflicts between Nativist gangs and new Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s, William “Boss” Tweed, the head of the Democratic Party’s political machine at Tammany Hall, points to the Irish disembarking their ships and refers to them as “the building of our country right there… Americans aborning.”
Bill “the Butcher” Cutting, based on the real-life Nativist and gang leader William Poole, replies, “I don’t see no Americans. I see trespassers.” He asks Tweed, “What have they done? Name one thing they’ve contributed.” Tweed smiles and answers, “Votes.” New York City’s politically successful still use Tweed’s playbook, but have learned that white European immigrants will no longer do.
Mamdani did not campaign as a Democrat. He did not campaign as an American. He campaigned as a foreigner. “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he declared in his victory speech.
America’s increasingly permissive immigration laws and policies, from the Hart-Celler Act to Reagan’s amnesty to President Joe Biden’s open borders, fundamentally transformed New York City from America’s most iconic metropolis into a cannibalised urban carcass populated by foreigners. The near-total eradication of the American demographic from the city resulted in Mamdani’s victory — it would have resulted in victory for almost anyone who campaigned on the platform, “You are a foreigner and so am I.”
Lies come in all shapes and sizes, but no matter how big or small they are, the intent is to confuse and deceive. This week, the lies are all over the map, but with the discernment of the Holy Spirit, intercessors can spot them right away.
This first lie told by the Left this week was posted by the Libs of TikTok. A video shows Michigan State Education Superintendent Sue Carnell being questioned about how many genders there are. Initially, Carnell smiles without answering, but when asked again, she states, “Different people have different beliefs on that.”
While Carnell refuses to acknowledge biological facts, the truth is that the state she represents has approved a new sex-ed curriculum for K-12 that aligns with her delusional thinking.
Michigan’s Sex Ed Curriculum Ignores Biology
In early November, Michigan’s State Board of Education approved new health education standards, which “included expanded objectives around LGBTQ+ relationships and gender.” Specifically, in grades 6-8, the draft standards “address gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation,” which are “distinct components of every individual’s identity.”
Other concerning details included guiding educators “to explain that emotional, romantic and/or sexual attraction to individuals of the same or different genders can change over time.” Additionally, the standards focus on “fostering empathy and respect around issues related to sexuality and gender.”
While parents are given the choice to opt out of the sex education curriculum, the truth is that a large population of students will be brainwashed by these ideas as they are exposed to them year after year in the Michigan public schools.
After the Libs of TikTok posted the video of Carnell’s answer, X users quickly responded. One stated, “If you can’t even acknowledge such a basic reality as biology, why should you be entrusted to teach kids anything more complicated? This is the bedrock foundation of thought, and kids aren’t even being taught it. No wonder students are struggling so much.”
It’s certainly true that many educational leaders have become liberal activists instead of teaching America’s youth the academics and wholesome values that are needed for them to become moral, productive citizens. We must pray that these educators embrace biological truth, rather than the lies of gender ideology.
Democrats Tell Military to Defy Orders
The second lie told by the Left this week involves some brazen Democrats in Congress who seem to think that defying military orders is the American thing to do.
The Democrats involved in this scheme released a controversial video message that encourages those who serve in the military to “refuse to follow illegal orders” that have been issued by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The video begins as Democrats (all of whom have served in the military or the intelligence community) introduce themselves. The line-up includes: Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan (former CIA officer), Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona (former Navy captain and astronaut), Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania (former Navy officer), Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire (former intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania (former Air Force officer), and Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado (former paratrooper and Army Ranger).
Democrats take turns speaking, each one revealing a different part of the following message:
“We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military. But that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders…You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution. We know this is hard and that it’s a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you’re serving in the CIA, the Army, our Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical and know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution, and who we are as Americans.”
Americans Respond
Comments about the video were plentiful. “We are witnessing the most corrupt, anti-American, Godless, and criminal Democrat party in American history,” responded one user.
Lily Tang Williams, a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and opposing candidate to Rep. Maggie Goodlander for the 2026 New Hampshire Congress, stated, “What specific orders to the military are not legal? They should be clear by listing them instead of gaslighting the public, especially the Left. Did she (referring to Goodlander) say anything about Biden’s autopen, or her husband Jake Sullivan, in the Russia Gate scam?”
Others commented about the hypocrisy of such a message when unlawful COVID-19 vaccine mandates were forced upon military members and pushed by Democrats during the pandemic.
The truth is that Left-leaning leaders are willing to sacrifice everything for their liberal agenda, even if it means weakening our military. We must pray that our service members will stand strong in the face of this blatant propaganda.
Mamdani Endorses Anti-American Candidates
The third lie told by the Left this week revolves around the newly elected mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, who is set to take office in January 2026. While the Left thinks he’s the greatest hope for their city, the truth is that he’s supporting an agenda that is dangerous and anti-American.
Mamdani makes it no secret that he supports the terrorist-funded organization known as CAIR (Council on Islamic Relations), or that he harbors resentment when it comes to the nation of Israel. But after his mayoral election victory, he’s doing his best to make sure more candidates like him make it to prominent positions in the government.
His most recent plans for endorsement were revealed after a closed-door meeting of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Mamdani plans to use his political clout to prop up New York state assembly candidate Aber Kawas, who is trying to garner support from the DSA to run in Queens’ 34th District.
Praising Terror Attacks
Aber Kawas, a “longtime Palestinian activist,” once described the 9-11 terror attacks as something that a “couple of people did.” Kawas has also been a speaker with CAIR, a Muslim charity group that has links to Hamas.
Kawas has a history of comments that showcase her anti-American rhetoric. In the past, she has stated, “The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy et cetera–and Islamophobia–have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, and so this is a long trajectory and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11. The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera – is something I find reprehensible.”
If that weren’t enough, Kawas earned a master’s degree in “Islamic Liberation Theology” from a university in South Africa, and she specializes in pro-Arabization and anti-Israel politics. Investigations into her old social media accounts show that she has defended Al Qaeda operatives, as well as terrorists who have planned synagogue bombings.
Far Left socialist leaders are trying to convince voters that they want to help America, when in fact, they criticize and condemn the very nation they claim to support. Let’s pray that their grand plan to deceive falls apart.
Lord Jesus, the lies of the Left are getting out of hand. Thankfully, Your mighty hand is the one that saves and delivers us from all unrighteousness and deception.
These are just a few of the lies the Left told this week. How are you praying?
Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger, and former teacher who studies the signs of the times, as well as the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com.She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus and Hallelujah’s Great Ride. Photo Credit: Danny Butlin-Policarpo on Unsplash.
Twenty-four years after 9/11, a foreign-born Muslim will soon be sworn in as mayor of New York City. Incoming NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani has a history of supporting extreme anti-Israel ideas, and his election may certainly inspire more far-left Muslims to enter politics.
Mamdani made numerous comments during the campaign, which have now inspired the Anti-Defamation League to launch a new project called the ‘Mamdani Monitor’ to track his administration.
“Mayor-Elect Mamdani has promoted antisemitic narratives, associated with individuals who have a history of antisemitism, and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state that is counter to the views of the overwhelming majority of Jewish New Yorkers. We are deeply concerned that those individuals and principles will influence his administration at a time when we are tracking a brazen surge of harassment, vandalism and violence targeting Jewish residents and institutions in recent years,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director.
For example, Mamdani once said that he’ll arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever sets foot in New York City.
He also declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” three times on NBC’s Meet the Press, a slogan that means a worldwide attack against Israel and the Jewish people. “Ultimately, it’s not language that I use, it’s language I understand there are concerns about, and what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions,” he said.
Zohran Mamdani at the Islamic Cultural Center in the New York City borough of the Bronx, NY, October 24, 2025. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Mamdani even posted on social media a comedy video making fun of Hanukkah, and he has been an outspoken supporter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate and destroy Israel.
During the Democratic primary debate, he also refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist in its present form.
Mamdani is just the latest anti-Israel Muslim to capture the political spotlight. Other examples include Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Tlaib was censured by the House for calling for the destruction of Israel, and Omar has faced several censure attempts.
But the Islamic agenda for America goes beyond politics. Appearing on this week’s episode of The Global Lane, religion and culture expert Alex McFarland warns Americans to be careful about the Islamist influence in states like Texas, where sharia law is a growing concern.
Even before January 1st, when the City of New York will be controlled by the newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, someone who grew up in that world already figured out that the deceptive path being carved out by Muslims, who aspire to attain elected office, is to bill themselves as would-be saviors of Western society.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, better known as Son of Hamas, has an uncanny way of getting down to business and seeing through all the carefully crafted campaign speeches, revealing the exact winning strategy which, in this case, catapulted Mamdani to the top political role in the city that never sleeps.
While speaking about the “Red-Green Alliance,” during his recent appearance on the Will Cain Show, Yousef was asked how these two diverse groups can be aligned? One is steeped in Woke and Marxist ideology while the other in a tribal Muslim philosophy whose goal is complete world dominance. Each is championing totally different outcomes.
Perhaps, the only commonality amongst them is that nothing good or productive will result for mankind if either of them should achieve their objectives.
Nonetheless, coming from that mentality, Mosab has figured out that Mamdani, and others like him, claim to be a type of redeemer who will save the city from all its ills. It wasn’t that difficult to spot, because, as he puts it, the “Reds” paved the way for the “Greens” to swoop in and take the reins, creating the perfect climate for such a takeover.
Because most Americans have little or no understanding of this dangerous alliance, and what it means for a freedom-loving society, they are unaware of the anti-Western direction which is at their core beliefs. Mosab says, “All they can offer is tyranny and dictatorship.”
It is not in their nature to be transparent or to represent the people who put them into office. In fact, their goal is complete destruction of the status quo which would include the 250-year American culture, as well as the end of other societies which have, up until now, not represented a dominant Muslim force.
Mosab’s problem with the incoming mayor is how he represented himself, “using the Muslim and socialist cards.” Had he introduced himself as someone who identified more as an American, despite his being foreign born, Yousef would have seen it differently. But given his conflicting ideology, that is in opposition to the spirit of New York, Mamdani’s promises to save what he has characterized as a failing city, cannot succeed. That is because these two failing philosophies have never worked to better the lives of people, anywhere they have been tried.
Mosab reminds us that New York, even with all its problems, is the most advanced city in the world and doesn’t need fixing from someone who doesn’t share its culture, sensibilities and way of life. This is what Mosab finds so perplexing. He asks, “From what exactly will Mamdani save New York?”
Sure, it’s an expensive city in which to live, but will the ideals of Marxist socialism improve the cost of living? Who will pay for a better system to be implemented? Because someone will have to finance all of the free services he promised.
Mosab points out that since Mamdani identifies as a Muslim, why doesn’t he first go to build those nations which are riddled with their own problems and inequities?
That’s an easy answer. Because building and improving is not the endgame for Mamdani or others like him who have invaded – the word he uses, America in the hope of making it into their image.
All too familiar are Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who have nothing positive to say about the American culture or way of life. To hear it from them, they reside in an ugly, racist nation which is Islamophobic. Everything always comes back to those same accusations.
In order to atone for such sins, the type of America they hope for would much more resemble Qatar or Saudi Arabia, where women are relegated to a second-class status and every city would hear the Muezzin’s call to prayer five times a day.
It is this type of world that Mosab Hassan Yousef escaped – one where boys had no chance to dream about a family and successful career or where girls could choose whatever they wanted to become, without the permission of others.
It is because Mosab is familiar with this oppressive existence that he is able to easily see where all this is leading. Those warnings must be heeded, because if they aren’t, the America which has been a shining beacon to so many, will cease to be entirely.
The Red/Green Alliance is the death knell for the country which started out by building a written constitution to protect personal freedoms and rights. When it failed to live up to those ideals, it was held to accountability by citizens who recognized the injustices and quickly sought to remedy them.
America is far from perfect, but it is a model which has worked for so many people that it still remains the coveted land where one can live the closest thing to a dream life. The possibility of upward mobility is still attainable, and if someone is willing to work hard, there is no limit to what can be achieved.
But those things can only be accomplished by a corporately held covenant which values democracy, liberty and the ability to make personal choices without forcing others into compliance.
Without mutual respect for each individual, society cannot offer a good solution for its people, because their safety and preferences are not guaranteed.
That is why foreigners who do not share the principles of Western nations cannot walk in and claim to be a mystical messiah whose recycled ideas of inequity are the magic pill that will enhance life for each person. Such a doomed prescription offers no opportunity to rise to the top nor does it provide a way to financially excel as the result of hard work and self-determination.
These are the pitfalls already seen by one who rejected a way of life which only sought to keep its people in bondage and subservience. It’s the old story of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But in this case, anyone looking for a savior might want to look above to the Almighty – not to a Democratic Socialist named Zohran Mamdani.
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The news of the day and how it affects you as a Christian. It’s the Friday News Round-Up and Comment broadcast. Here’s a sample of what host Jim Schneider presented for listeners:
–The longest government shutdown in our history ended with the stroke of a pen by President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday evening. He signed a spending package into law that will fund the government through the end of January.
–Members of Congress collected more than $20,000 apiece during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, as millions of Americans went without pay and essential services. The White House estimates that the shutdown inflicted roughly 15 billion dollars in weekly economic damage with 60,000 private sector jobs lost.
–Leftists, including some elected officials, reacted with rage Monday after 8 Senate Democrats caved to Senate Republicans by agreeing to vote to end the lengthy government shutdown. Despite voting against the deal, Chuck Schumer is emerging as the top target for not containing the defections.
–Paychecks to federal workers reportedly will be going out tomorrow.
–Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the full SNAP benefits would be restored by Monday, November 17th.
–Rollins said that SNAP benefits are ripe with fraud and abuse.
–Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handed out $10,000 bonus checks November 13th to thousands of frontline TSA officers who stayed on the job during the government shutdown.
–Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania surprised CNN’s Dana Bash as he explained how much crueler the political left has treated him compared to those on the right.
–New York City Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani spoke unapologetically about his Muslim faith and Democratic socialist roots during his victory speech on election night.
–In the wake of the victory by Mamdani, Muslims are claiming New York for Islam.
–The city of Ithaca, New York, made history this week by electing a 20 year old member of the Communist Party USA to public office.
–Progressive candidate Katie Wilson was elected as the 58th mayor of Seattle.
–So far there are 47 members of Congress that are not seeking re-election.
–Representative Jasmine Crockett believes President Trump may potentially play with the voting machines for the mid-term elections.
–The New York Post is reporting that an NYPD exodus is already underway with a surge of officers quitting in the month leading up to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win.
“Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document” – Gene Veith
The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is not the only reason to take the Democratic Socialists of America seriously.
He joins Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as prominent DSA members in prominent offices. But, as Olivia Reingold points out, the DSA has growing chapters across the country–one of the largest being in northwestern Arkansas–and is doing the groundwork to field candidates in local, state, and national elections.
The media is turning out anodyne descriptions of Democratic Socialism, which the BBC claims “has no clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations.” Actually, Democratic Socialism does have a clear definition. According to Oxford Reference, an objective source, “Strictly speaking, socialism advocates social ownership of the means of production and is therefore committed to the overthrow of capitalism as an economic model, while maintaining a commitment to political democracy.”
Basically, Democratic Socialism is a sect of Marxism that believes communism can be brought about by political means without violent revolution, though the sources linked above say that the Democratic Socialists don’t rule out violent revolution. But their immediate tactic is political means. That is, winning elections.
So since this movement is shaping up to be a viable option for American voters, we should educate ourselves about its policy positions.
Reingold gained access to some DSA internal documents that outline what candidates must commit to in order to gain a DSA endorsement:
Candidates will receive support based on whether they organized for Sanders in the past, support “Palestinian liberation,” and are willing to “openly and proudly identify with DSA and Socialism.” A different resolution specifies over a dozen prerequisites for endorsement by the DSA, such as “the abolition of the police and the U.S. empire,” “return of land to indigenous communities,” and “the right of all people to freedom of movement.”
Here is the required position on Israel:
The candidate must support the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] movement [eliminating all investment in Israel] and the creation of a single, secular, integrated, and democratic Palestinian state in the whole of historic Palestine, and must oppose any measure which would legitimize the Israeli state, transfer funds or arms to the Israeli state, or restrict the right of any person to organize for a free Palestine.
Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document (bolds in the original, with my comments italicized and in brackets:
—A new political order through a second constitutional convention to write the founding documents of a new socialist democracy. [Our existing “ossified constitution” should be replaced. There should be no “undemocratic institutions” such as a Senate or an Electoral College.]
–Extension of voting rights to non-citizens who otherwise meet durational residency requirements for voting.
–Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero.
—Freedom for all incarcerated people. [That includes rejecting “‘alternatives to incarceration’ that are carceral in nature, including problem-solving courts and electronic monitoring and coercive restorative justice programs.”]
–Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies; that criminalize homelessness; and that criminalize squatting and other productive occupation of unused housing.
–End the legacy of colonial violence against indigenous people through repatriation, and call for the US adherence to existing treaties and statutes upholding indigenous rights and sovereignty.
–Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure.
–Free abortion on demand.
–Allow trans minors to access gender affirming care without parental consent.
–End the repression of sex workers and fully decriminalize sex work nationwide.
—End the state recognition of the gender binary and enforcement of heteronormativity.
–Decommodify survival, so no one’s life depends on their ability to work or to pay.
–End all deportations and enforcement actions, immigration detention, private prison contracts, and deputization of local police forces.
–[A series of demands regarding foreign policy call for withdrawing from NATO, closing all foreign military bases, and normalizing our relationship with socialist nations such as China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.]
To me, though, the most telling revelation about the beliefs of the Democratic Socialists of America came out in Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”
That is to say, in his mindset and that of his supporters, government will concern itself with everything. Government will take care of everything, no matter how large or how small. That, my friends, is the definition of totalitarianism.
Last week, Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election. In the days following, a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official sought to characterize Mamdani’s victory as a “political and ideological revolt against the American establishment.”
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Ohio chapter described the election of New York City’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, as both a “coup” against the Democratic Party elites and a “referendum” on Palestinian and Lebanese “resistance,” framing the victory as a political and ideological revolt against the American establishment.
Khalid Turaani made the remarks on Lebanon’s Mayadeen TV the day after Mamdani’s election, according to a video released by MEMRI. The comments cast the win as a revolt against the U.S. political order and a symbolic triumph for anti-Israel movements, echoing his claim that the result punctured the party hierarchy.
“I believe [Zohran] Mamdani represents an opposition to the entire American deep state,” Turaani said. “Through this historic victory, which is unprecedented in modern times, Mamdani has defeated the traditional Democratic Party.”
Turaani also referenced Senator Chuck Schumer, calling him a “Zionist” and a “Jewish New Yorker.” He cited Senator Schumer’s refusal to endorse Mamdani as more evidence that the socialist’s victory is an attack on the Democratic establishment.
Turaani additionally tied Mamdani’s victory to the conflict in Gaza. He characters New York City as “an extremist Zionist fortress of support for the Israeli occupation state,” calling Mamdani’s election a “referendum over the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.” There is some truth to this, Breitbart notes. Post-election polling reportedly showed that 83% of Mamdani voters cited Palestine as their primary motivation.
You can view his these comments in the video below.
CAIR is a dangerous player in American politics that many intercessors are likely already familiar with. The organization was one of Mamdani’s largest funders according to Breitbart, contributing $120,000 to the mayor-elect’s campaign. It has also come under fire from Republicans, some of whom have called for federal investigations over CAIR’s alleged funding of terrorist organizations.
If an organization like CAIR is celebrating Mamdani’s win, that’s not a good sign. Let’s pray against the influences of radical Islam on our nation, and let’s continue to pray for Israel!
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What will the loss of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens mean for New York City? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer that question. When large numbers of law-abiding citizens leave any area, conditions get worse. And when conditions get worse, that motivates even more law-abiding citizens to leave. Meanwhile, the election of Zohran Mamdani will make the Big Apple a magnet for criminals, gang members, radical Islamists, economic parasites, far left political activists and those that have entered this country illegally. New York City has entered a horrifying death spiral, and there is little hope that this death spiral can be reversed any time soon.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday.
Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners.
We have never seen anything quite like this before.
If those residents were to leave, it would be equal to the population of Washington, DC, Las Vegas, or Seattle fleeing the city.
Another 25% of New Yorkers — about 2.12 million — said they would “consider” packing up and leaving.
But it isn’t just the sheer number of people that are threatening to leave that is the issue.
One of the reasons why New York City is one of the most important cities on the entire planet is because of the vast amount of wealth that is located there.
Now that Mamdani has won, wealthy New Yorkers are freaking out because he believes that capitalism is “theft”…
A lot of ultra-wealthy residents are threatening to flee, and that is a major problem, because the top 1 percent of all income earners pay close to 50 percent of all the taxes…
The top 1 percent of earners in New York pay around half the city’s income taxes.
With a significant proportion of them departing the city’s finances would collapse and there would be less money to pay for Mamdani’s policies, which involve subsidizing various parts of the city’s economy.
New York City is already facing an absolutely massive budget deficit next year.
So how will Mamdani be able to pay for all of his new social programs if ultra-wealthy New Yorkers start leaving in large numbers?
And how will Mamdani be able to maintain order if police officers start leaving in large numbers?
When Mamdani was asked about this, he openly acknowledged that the city is facing a “retention crisis”…
Socialist mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani said Friday that he is not concerned about backlash from law enforcement following his election victory and reiterated his plan to have social workers carry out certain duties currently done by law enforcement.
During a visit to Puerto Rico, Mamdani was asked if he was “worried” about backlash from the “law enforcement community.”
“I’m not worried about the backlash. What I’m worried about, frankly, is the continuation of a retention crisis that we’ve seen only deepen during the course of this campaign,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani is a smooth talker.
But there is no way that he is going to be able to talk his way out of this mess.
Every single day more New Yorkers are relocating, and one of the most popular destinations is Florida…
Election anxiety in New York City has turned into a real estate windfall in South Florida.
Developer Isaac Toledano, CEO of Miami-based BH Group, told Fox News Digital that his company has closed more than $100 million in signed contracts from New York buyers in just the past few months – about twice last year’s volume.
“I think the election accelerated how people make decisions,” Toledano said. “I think people are nervous [for] what’s coming, how it’s going to affect their lifestyle, the quality of life, taxes, potential of crime [or] no crime.”
‘We are seeing interest from New York City intensify because of the election,’ Dina Goldentayer, a Douglas Elliman agent in Florida, told the Daily Mail.
‘The city’s area codes 917 and 212 are popping up now almost as much as they did at the height of the Covid pandemic.
‘Most of the calls are from buyers, many Wall Street execs, looking in the $20 million to $30 million range. Specifically for waterfront houses or oceanfront condos.’
The weather in southern Florida is so nice for most of the year.
Needless to say, it would certainly not be my first choice.
Up until just recently, many long-time New Yorkers never imagined that they would leave.
But now everything has changed.
It has been pointed out that voters that have lived in New York City for less than 10 years are the reason why Mamdani was victorious…
We are seeing similar patterns all over the nation.
In fact, it is being reported that this month we saw “a record forty-two Muslim candidates elected to public office across the United States”…
They told us the plan. Now we’re watching it unfold — in real time.
This week, terror-linked Islamic organizations are celebrating a stunning milestone: a record forty-two Muslim candidates elected to public office across the United States, the most significant wave of Muslim political victories in American history.
According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) own data, the newly elected officials span at least nine states — New York, Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The list includes five mayors, four state legislators, two judges, and dozens of city council, county, and school board members.
The electorate has been transformed by decades of mass immigration.
This is something that many of us have been ranting about for a very long time, but there is no way to turn back the clock now.
Those that wanted to “fundamentally transform” America have largely succeeded, and now a 34-year-old Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
The largest city in the United States is about to descend into a state of complete and utter chaos, and everyone can see that this is a story that is not going to have a happy ending.
New York City voters chose Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and the city’s first Muslim mayor. NYC is the nation’s most populous city, scarred by the 9/11 Islamic terror attack, and now led by a politician whose record on Israel and Hamas is more than alarming.
In the campaign’s closing weeks, Mamdani refused to say Hamas should disarm and even doubled down on a vow to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he visited New York. That’s not normal city-business chatter. They’re worldview markers. When the keys of America’s financial and media capital are handed to a movement openly hostile to God and the Constitution, there are significant prophetic consequences for America.
Six years ago, this column warned that the Democratic Party was fast identifying as a socialist party. That wasn’t hyperbole; it was pattern recognition. The playbook is classic Hegelian drift: thesis (constitutional republic and markets), antithesis (state-managed “equity”), synthesis (soft-command economics with hard cultural enforcement). Read the Communist Manifesto, and you see the blueprint that socialism keeps walking toward: abolish private property, centralize credit and transport, replace eternal truths with ideology, and abolish religion.
When government becomes god, liberty withers, people lose the right to be wrong, and the state claims the authority to make you “right.” America’s promise is the opposite: God-given rights, limited government, and a civil society strong enough to correct itself without crushing dissent.
There’s also a documented ideological ecosystem behind the curtain. In 2007, during the Dallas Holy Land Foundation terror trial, prosecutors introduced the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Explanatory Memorandum,” which described a “Civilization-Jihadist process” to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within,” listing US fronts to embed and influence. While not every Muslim in public life is an Islamist, every responsible citizen should know the doctrine and the networks that seek leverage inside free societies to exploit liberty and replace it with tyranny.
New York’s choice matters because influence radiates from that city into finance, media, academia, and policy. Put a movement hostile to Israel, religious liberty, and market freedom at the helm, and the shockwaves run national in a hurry.
For example, Democrats logged big nights in Virginia and New Jersey. California voters advanced a redistricting measure favored by the socialist left—momentum that pushes America further toward statism. Add the steady drumbeat of violent language from national Democratic figures, and you have a convergence point: radical socialism using the ballot and promoting violence to gain the bureaucracy, the classroom, the justice system, and the church.
Socialism is communism with better branding, and communism banishes faith by design. America is rushing toward a danger zone where abandoning the God-honoring principles that grounded our liberty will carry prophetic consequences.
Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”
Time to stand, speak truth, and defend the Republic while we still can.
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John Kasich You’ve Been Warned “A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. … There’s going to be a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. … They’re going to do some blue-ribbon panel of distinguished jurists, and they are going to recommend 13 [justices]. And a Democratic Senate and House are going to pass it, and the Democratic president is going to sign it. … I would bet a lot of money that that’s what’s going to happen. 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It Is Time To Get Out Of New York City Did you ever think that you would see New York City fall this low? It would be difficult for me to overstate the seriousness of the crisis that the Big Apple is now facing. A 34-year-old radical Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago has now become the mayor of America’s largest city. The mainstream media is calling Zohran Mamdani a “democratic socialist”, but the truth is that he is very much a communist. He is making all sorts of very expensive promises, and in order to give his followers what they want, he is going to have to take enormous amounts of money from others.
How did an Islamist socialist who posed with an unindicted terror bombing coconspirator become elected to head a city of terror survivors, the “most Jewish city in America” and how did he defeat an Italian-American political dynasty in what was once an Italian-American city?
Because that New York City, the one people imagine from movies, no longer exists.
In 1989, the last year of Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Jews outnumbered Muslims roughly 4 to 1. By 2013, the last year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, the number of Muslims had doubled and the number of Jews continued to drop.
And by the time Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo, there were more Muslims than Italian Americans in NYC.
So much for New York City being the “most Jewish city” in America. Or “Italian city”. Like so many European cities, it’s been redefined by waves of Muslim mass migration.
There wasn’t an Irish candidate in the race because the number of Irish-Americans in what is considered “one of the most Irish city in America” long ago dropped below that of Muslims.
Never mind the Polish population represented by Curtis Sliwa which is even smaller.
New York City’s old ‘ethnic’ working class population is gone. Much of it fled the chaos and violence of the 1970s and 1980s. By the time Mayor Rudy Giuliani restored order by cracking down on crime, they didn’t come back. Instead they were replaced by college students, hipsters and third world immigrants who not only voted for Democrats, but for the far Left.
5 million residents were born outside New York City. Less than 4 million were born in the city.
While New Yorkers went for Cuomo, 50% to 38% for Mamdani, those who had lived in the city for 10 years or less went for Mamdani by 82% to 16%.
This reflects both external mass immigration but internal migration from other parts of the country. Another way to measure the foreign population in New York City is to look at the proportion of those to whom English is a second language. The number of non-English speakers has been steadily rising since 1990 and the number of English speakers declined from 63% to 52%.
It’s now almost even.
Much of New York City no longer even speaks English. That’s why Mamdani could campaign in Arabic.
While a lot of parts of the country, including Florida, complain about New Yorkers moving there, New Yorkers (while they still existed in NYC) complained about non-New Yorkers moving to the city.
This internal migration by non-New Yorkers sent prices soaring and fundamentally altered the character of the city from a tough working class and middle class city to a hipster paradise.
The college students who moved to the city and got jobs here were less likely to get married and form families leading to Manhattan becoming one of the largest (and certainly the densest) reservoirs of singles in the country. Combined with the growth in ‘single parent’ households among minority groups, the New York City of families has disappeared.
A majority of households in New York City are single now. The number of families continues to drop. While exit polls didn’t ask about marital status, single people tend to vote more liberal.
Pre-election polls showed Mamdani winning over only 16% of Jews, 28% among Catholics and 36% among Protestants. The only ‘religious’ group Mamdani performed were “Other” which presumably were boosted by his Muslim voter base. How does a politician lose religious people by decisive numbers and yet win a mayoral election? Religion has been declining as well. Especially among white New Yorkers.
The religiously affiliated are still a majority, but the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated have been rising sharply. Among those 45 years old and younger, the group that Mamdani won, the gap is 60% to 40%. The gap is narrower still, 55% to 45%, among those under 30, and among those under 25 years old, it’s split evenly. Among white New Yorkers, a majority are unaffiliated.
These were some of Mamdani’s best voters.
Paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) the lack of real religiosity among New York City’s Christian and Jewish populations is part of the reason why an Islamist won the mayoralty.
Mamdani’s defeat of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams, all personalities dating back to an older New York City, the city of the 80s and 90s, marked the defeat of old New York City by a ‘new’ New York City. This city has no character, no tradition and no roots. It’s interchangeable with every upscale gentrified city in America and all across Europe.
This Neo-New York could just as easily be London or Toronto. It has no past and no future. Like Mamdani, it’s not part of America, and is open to being colonized by any group with organization, determination and a mission. What was done to London is happening to New York City. It’s futile to ask why New Yorkers are letting this happen, like me, they no longer live there.
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