Ben Shapiro

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the most powerful city in the world, 8 million people, the financial capital of the West, the pride of our nation.

Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York City.

And if you're looking at that sentence and thinking, wait, how did that happen?

Congratulations, you have functional pattern recognition.

Because here's what's actually happening.

New York didn't just elect a mayor.

New York elected a model.

A fully assembled, institutionally produced, activist-to-government pipeline product packaged as youthful authenticity and sold as moral urgency.

So, who is Zoran Mamdani?

To understand Mamdani, you don't start with New York in 2026.

You start about 30 years ago in a house in Kampala, Uganda.

Now, he may have been born in Uganda in 1991, but Mamdani didn't grow up in the developing world.

He grew up in a posh, sprawling apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan.

His mother, Mira Nair, is an Oscar-nominated, Harvard-educated filmmaker.

And almost every single one of her acclaimed films asks the same underlying question.

What did the West take from the rest of the world?

In 2013, she boycotted the Haifa International Film Festival in Israel, posting publicly, "'I will go to Israel when the walls come down.

"'I will go when the occupation is gone.

"'I stand with Palestine.'"