Pass the smelling salts, please
Zohran Mamdani wins the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, and nationwide all the pants-pissers, pearl-clutchers, and couch-fainters come out of the woodwork. Donald Trump intimates that Mamdani ought to be deported.
On the Sunday shows, Hakim Jeffries takes time out of his efforts to defeat Trump’s budget and immigration bill to diss Mondami, suggesting that Mondami is antisemitic.
Just get a grip, people.
It’s no better in Minnesota. Just look at the first two letters to the editor in the Minnesota Star Tribune (at the link) shortly after the election results were announced.
Momdani says he is a “Democratic Socialist.” Get rid of him, the letter writers say; the Democrats need more centrist candidates. Like . . . um . . . Chuck Schumer?
What politicians like Schumer, Steny Hoyer, Gerry Connolly, and all the other Democrats who died in office lack in charisma, they make up for in anodyne policy positions which, of course, have served so well electorally. </sarcasm>
The New York Times continues to go full out against Momdani, publishing a racist and Islamophobic hit piece on him. From Common Dreams at the link:
However, what is stirring controversy about the Times piece isn’t so much its content [c’mon; the content is odious] but the source of its information. The Times acknowledges that the information on Mamdani was culled from a large hack of a Columbia database and that it received a copy of Mamdani’s application from “an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X,” whom it describes as “an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.”
A report from The Guardian’s Jason Wilson published earlier this year shows that the Times is vastly underselling its source’s extreme views on race. As Wilson documented, the “Crémieux” cited by the Times is a man named Jordan Lasker, whose writings regularly defend the work of “race scientists” who use I.Q. test results to argue that Black people are mentally inferior to other races.
Zohran Momdani is obviously a young, energetic, and articulate politician who scares the bejesus out of racists, Islamophobes, and ossified Democrats, too. Maybe that’s why young people like him so much.
Good for him.
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