Ben Shapiro

Mamdani's father, Mahmoud Mamdani, is an elite Columbia professor and one of the most cited post-colonial academics on planet Earth.

He wrote the books on how Africa was colonized and how America, not Europe, not Asia, not the Middle East, America is the genesis of all colonialism.

His core thesis is simple.

The very foundations of the West and our most precious institutions don't liberate, they control.

So, when people sell Mamdani as a working class hero, understand what that actually means.

He is the polished political expression of the worldview that lives in elite lecture halls and film festivals.

He is a communist nepo baby.

When you're raised in that, when your family dinner table is a literal Marxist seminar, politics becomes your new source of actual meaning in life.

Competence, performance, virtue are supplanted by insufferable activist credentials.

You'd think Mamdani might be grateful to the West.

After all, Western institutions granted him and his family great success.

But, of course, he can't imagine showing an ounce of gratitude.

Instead, he labels the West the villain, excoriates capitalism as the culprit, and calls all inequality the result of oppression.

But have no fear, our government can be the great redeemer.

Just vote for Mamdani, put him at the helm.

That's exactly what he ran on to become the mayor of New York City.

His need for power is funneled through the moral theater of the left, a coalition that thrives on grievance, high cost of living, and the promise that the government can fix spiritual emptiness with handouts.

So, where in the heck did Mamdani come from?

Before settling in New York City, the Mamdani family moved from Uganda to South Africa.

In Cape Town, Zorn attended school during the early post-apartheid years, an experience he later claimed taught him that justice has to be material.