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Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to open government-funded shops in New York City, selling food below market prices, paid for with tax dollars.
This isn’t “progressivism.” It’s straight-up communism.
The foreign-born communist with deep ties to terrorist organizations, Zohran Mamdani, just won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City and is poised to unleash the most radical economic destruction ever attempted in an American metropolis. The 33-year-old Uganda-born assemblyman, who co-founded anti-Israel terror groups and refuses to condemn calls for violence against Jews, defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a stunning upset. His victory should alarm every American as a warning sign of how far the Democratic Party has drifted toward communist economics and terrorist sympathies.
With his $10 billion tax-and-spend agenda designed to destroy free markets and his extensive connections to Hamas-supporting organizations, Mamdani’s potential election as mayor would hand control of America’s largest city to forces actively working to undermine both capitalism and national security.
Mamdani is proposing what economists have called “a war on prices”, a plan that would devastate New York’s economy through government takeovers of housing, retail, and labor markets. His platform includes city-owned grocery stores, rent freezes, fare-free buses, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030, all funded by a $10 billion tax hike on businesses and the wealthy. He is also calling for universal childcare for children under six and full government control of the housing sector.
Mamdani’s housing proposal calls for freezing rents for over 2 million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments for four years, while simultaneously raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5% and imposing a new 2% millionaire tax. The rent freeze would make it difficult for landlords to maintain their properties and would discourage investment, since no one wants to invest in an asset with frozen revenues. Rent control policies like these violate basic principles of market efficiency and have failed wherever implemented, leading to housing shortages, reduced new construction, and deterioration of existing units due to limited maintenance incentives.
Perhaps Mamdani’s most dangerous economic proposal is his plan to create a network of city-owned grocery stores that would “buy and sell at wholesale prices” and operate with the goal of “keeping prices low, not making a profit.” In practice, this means selling food below market rates, subsidized by tax dollars. The result would be higher taxes on working New Yorkers who choose to stay, while conservatives flee and freeloaders move in. Private grocery stores, unable to compete with subsidized pricing, would be forced to close—further increasing dependence on government-run shops and driving up city deficit spending.
History shows that every communist country attempting similar policies eventually limits access to government stores to only those who “qualify,” usually the poor, while the rest of the population pays for services they’re not allowed to use. To prevent black-market reselling or hoarding, the government would also have to restrict how much food each person can buy. Depending on how far Mamdani pushes this insanity, we could even see tip lines to report neighbors reselling goods, or maybe even turn in people who gained weight, since they’re clearly consuming more than their “fair share.”
John Catsimatidis, CEO of grocery chain Gristedes, one of the largest in the city, declared: “If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations.”
Mamdani’s radical agenda includes raising New York’s minimum wage to $30 per hour by 2030—nearly double the current rate, while funding his programs through an estimated $10 billion annual tax increase on businesses and wealthy residents. The combination of government-subsidized grocery stores, wage mandates, and rising costs will likely drive more businesses out of the city. Simultaneously, rent freezes will deter new investment and property development, reducing the inflow of capital. The result: shrinking tax revenue alongside soaring government spending.
Beyond economic destruction, Mamdani poses serious national security risks due to his extensive ties to anti-Israel extremist groups that threaten American interests and Jewish safety. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, a Marxist and Columbia University professor who teaches about colonialism, has promoted the “necessity of violence in anticolonial struggle” and spoke in solidarity at Columbia’s pro-Hamas encampment in April 2024.
Zohran Mamdani co-founded the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Bowdoin College and is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), another group hostile to Israel. He has also raised funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an organization long accused of infiltration by Palestinian terrorist groups. He is also an open supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Conservative commentator John Podhoretz called Mamdani “the ‘globalize the intifada’ candidate.” Mamdani’s own Facebook profile features a video of him standing in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York with members of Within Our Lifetime (WOL), a radical group that regularly calls for the abolition of Zionism, surrounded by signs reading, “There is only one solution: Intifada Revolution.”
With nearly one million Jews living in New York City, the largest Jewish population outside Israel, Mamdani’s ties to groups like SJP and WOL, both linked to antisemitic incidents and hate crimes, pose a direct threat to this community.
For the nation, he represents a clear and present danger: a convergence of communist economic collapse and national security threats that reflect both the failures of socialist ideology and the rising influence of pro-intifada, anti-American, terrorist-aligned sentiment within the Democratic Party.
Mamdani has won the Democratic primary, and given that the best candidate the Republicans could come up with was Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, Mamdani is now positioned to take control of the nation’s largest city this November.
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