Ben Shapiro

And when people feel like the system is failing, somebody fills the vacuum.

That's the setup for Mamdani.

It's the reason he was elected.

Mamdani has been extraordinarily explicit about wealth and class politics.

Unlike most of his predecessors, he's completely out in the open.

He advocates for defunding the police, abolishing cash bail and pretrial detention, universal rent control, public housing expansions funded by massive wealth taxes, sanctuary city maximalism, extended voting rights to undocumented immigrants, decriminalizing all drugs, sex work, and petty crimes, and implementing literal city-run utilities and government-run grocery stores.

He advocates for bottomless welfare, fiscal irresponsibility, and hostility to the police.

In June 2025, he flat out stated, I don't think we should have billionaires.

He supports the anti-Semitic BDS movement against Israel.

He falsely called the war in Gaza a genocide and publicly stated he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York City.

During his campaign, he posted a photo with Imam Siraj Wahaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

He called Wahaj a leader and pillar of the community while posing at a Brooklyn mosque.

This is the platform he ran on to win.

He beat Andrew Cuomo in the primary by 12 points, drove the highest New York City voter turnout since 1969.

He won without the Jewish vote, he won without the moderate vote, which means the coalition that elected him doesn't need those voters anymore, which is pretty dangerous.

Look, sheets don't just fall apart overnight.

That's not how this works.

There's no dramatic collapse, no single moment where it just kind of falls apart on you.

Instead, corners slip off, the fabric gradually gets thinner, it gets rougher, it's uncomfortable, you're sweating through the night wondering why you can't sleep comfortably.

Here's the bottom line.