Ben Shapiro

The left didn't put a democratic socialist into the New York City mayor's office by accident.

They spent 30 years building a farm system.

We of course need to fund, train, and elect hyper-competent conservatives at the most granular level of local government.

You stop a radical mayor by stacking the city council with pragmatists who gridlock his agenda.

We need to attack the nonprofit industrial complex.

The radical left is largely subsidized by the same system they claim to hate, the American taxpayer, the community organizations, the harm reduction centers, the housing advocacy groups.

These are, in most cases, just left-wing PACs masquerading as charities, kept alive by municipal, state, and federal grants.

We must aggressively defund this apparatus.

If they want to dismantle the free market, make them do it on their own dime.

We need to offer material solutions, not just cultural outrage.

Conservatives cannot just be the party of socialism is bad.

We have to be the party of here's how you afford a house.

This means going to war with the regulatory state.

We need to aggressively champion deregulation, destroy red tape, destroy zoning laws that prevent developers from building homes, smash,

the public sector unions bankrupting city budgets, and offer aggressive tax incentives to bring business back.

We have to prove that free markets and law and order actually delivers the prosperity socialism only pretends to offer.

Because, of course, that's what capitalism does.

Socialism isn't compassion, it's elite vanity disguised as empathy.

And it destroys the very people it claims to protect.

Zoran Mamdani and his allies are betting that conservatives will eventually just give up and move away.