The Mayor of New York City is a figure of national importance, only although no one in the last century has increased from the City Council to play a significant role in American politics.
Because? Because New York City is the Canary in the coal mine for ideas on how to govern.
When bad ideas are promulgated here, they extend like the Spanish flu and get sick to the rest of America. And when the good ones appear, like the policies that ended the wave of crime in the 1990s, they give the sun in a morning without clouds and rejoice the daily life of the whole country.
Therefore, it is not only because New York is the center of the universe (which is) that its mayors matter. Is that what happens here Reverbera.
And at this time, what seems to be reverberant as New York Democrats prepare for their mayor of Primary June is Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani has increased from a complete darkness to the second in the surveys (although at 20 points of the leader Andrew Cuomo) and has raised more than $ 9 million more.
That makes Mamdani the great star of the Democratic Party so far this year. And that is quite surprising, because the 3 -year -old representative of anyone’s state is a utopian lunatic outside and outside.
It wants to freeze all rentals, make the government manage grocery stores and make child care and bus traffic free for everyone.
How would this work in practice? Oh, don’t be a stickler! Go on board the bus for free!
In fact, Mamdami is so pure in his ideological vision that one of the founders of Crackpot of Socialism, Charles Fourier (1782-1837) evokes.
Fourier had a plan to reorganize the land in a series of communal farms exactly the same in the size and money called “Falantías” in which happy children would do the work of happy adults and the latter to social harmony.
How would all this work? No matter how! Just drink the Kool-Aid-I mean, the lemonade!
Gloria was in it: the process of creating the new Fourier order called Harmony, in which the social conflict would disappear and wealth would rain equally in all.
This vision of a society runs from top to bottom to eliminate all human conflicts, or otherwise, led the most practical radicals of their time to think that they could do to achieve this revolution in consciousness.
This effort ordered seriously in the publication of the “communist manifesto” in 1848, and reached its conclusion after the killing of more than 100 million people under the yoke of totalitarian socialism when it fell almost 150 years later.
So, of course, let’s bring it to New York City in 2026!
Simply this: the policy proposals that Mamdani is being executed will be literally impossible to promulgate, but it is promulgated, it would make the city a economic and social hell so fast that we would go for the days when our great Binghophopofo.
What do I mean with Mamdani compared to Fourier?
In several turning points in the history of the city since the 1960s, we have presented an option. The choice is between reality and deception. Actually, New York, a disaster desperately needs practical solutions to make an increasingly stable city habitable again.
The illusion is that it can be affected by increasing the power of the government of the incompetent, corrupt and silly city and its workforce.
Mamdani, whose father is a radical professor in Columbia (OH, great) and whose mother is a film director who boycott from Israel, receives the second name of Kwame Nkrumh, a progressive anti -colonial African politician.
Nkrumh was democratically elected in 1957, but, great surprise, in 1964 he had converted his country of Ghana into a single party dictatorship with himself as “president of life” before being justifiably deposed.
Zohran Mamdani is the heir of bad ideas of the nineteenth century, bears the name of a socialist totalitarian of the twentieth century, is the son of an anti -Semitic of the 21st century and wants to take all this to New York City in 2026.
I have an idea. Let’s not leave it.
John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary magazine.