_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
Zohran Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New York City, rode the wave of economic discontent into office, promising to enact policies that lower costs for the middle class and squeeze the rich. However, his candidacy revealed his sympathy for Islamic terrorists, his embrace of language adopted by communists like Karl Marx.
In the lead-up to his mayoralty and in its nascent days, Mamdani is proving to be less in the mold of Lenin and Trotsky and more similar to a 2020s woke leftist, prioritizing race, gender, and sexual orientation over competency.
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