DAVID MARCUS: Why Mamdani will serve two terms no matter how bad NYC gets

It was a rude awakening for immoderate young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed socialists successful New York City past week, arsenic they arrived astatine the Zohran Mamdani triumph enactment successful Brooklyn to observe that a Bud Light outgo a whopping $13. I mean, what benignant of socialist utopia is that?

In fact, the pricey suds are astir apt rather indicative of the interaction that Zany Zohran’s policies volition person crossed Gotham. It volition astir surely beryllium much carnival of errors than objective communist takeover, making New York City much costly and little attractive, but with snazzy Soviet-style posters and TikTok videos.

And conjecture what? Even if transgression skyrockets due to the fact that Mamdani hates cops, buses inactive aren’t free, rents proceed to spell up and the metropolis becomes much divided than ever – Mamdani volition beryllium a two-term mayor.

There’s nary Republican Rudy Giuliani 2.0 waiting successful the wings, and adjacent if determination was, this electorate wouldn’t prime him.

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In the days anterior to the election, I traveled astir the 5 boroughs and recovered that among mean and blimpish New Yorkers determination was nary fearfulness of apocalypse regarding Mamdani, adjacent arsenic billionaires, politicians and editorial boards scolded them for not lining up down Andrew Cuomo to "save the city."

"I don’t adjacent spell to Manhattan," Steve, a lifelong Bay Ridge, Brooklyn resident, told me. "I've got everything I request close here."

In Steve’s astir fractional a period successful the blue-collar nabe wherever cops unrecorded and the mafia utilized to roam, he’s seen it past not lone nether the disastrous enactment of erstwhile socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the adjacent worse aged days of David Dinkins.

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Like The Dude successful "The Big Lebowski," this and truthful galore hard moving areas of New York City volition abide. Other parts of the city, wherever pack crime, cause dealing and vagrancy fester, volition get worse and worse, but specified places are easy ignored by champagne socialists.

Another crushed wherefore Mamdani should person creaseless sailing into a 2nd word is that his basal is transplants, young adults successful their 20s and 30s who travel to New York City to unrecorded it up, knowing afloat good that they volition settee down determination else. To them, a small transgression mightiness arsenic good beryllium the mustard connected a Nathan’s blistery dog.

Ultimately, the crushed that Gotham is looking astatine a eight-year condemnation of Zohran’s socialist enactment is that the Republican Party, from the national, authorities and adjacent metropolis level, simply refuses to adjacent effort to compete.

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Some of this dates backmost to Michael Bloomberg, who cynically ran arsenic a Republican successful 2002 to triumph the mayor’s contention and past abruptly became an Independent, each but making the GOP a 3rd party, clinging to its 1 competitory legislature spot and a fewer metropolis assembly slots.

Maybe it is hopeless for Republicans successful Gotham. Maybe things volition ne'er get atrocious capable again, for everybody, that a caller Rudy tin emerge, and fixed however the archetypal is treated today, who would privation to beryllium that person, anyway?

No substance however atrocious it gets, the metropolis volition blasted Trump. Or Vance. Or racism, Islamophobia oregon immoderate they tin deliberation of. Not for nothing, they’d person re-elected De Blasio if they could’ve.

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Note however the billionaires are present changing their tune, pledging to enactment with Mamdani, begging for meetings with their caller commie mayor. Gone is the gnashing of teeth and wailing of wails implicit the decease of New York City.

Right-leaning Gothamites ne'er bought each the Sturm und Drang anyway, and they definite arsenic hellhole don’t fto affluent guys archer them however to vote.

If determination is immoderate anticipation for the GOP to marque a comeback successful New York City, they amended get started now, due to the fact that with rank-choice superior voting determination isn’t a mean Democrat successful the universe, to the grade they inactive exist, who could topple Zohran.

Elections person consequences, and for the adjacent 8 years, astatine least, successful New York City the effect is socialism. Like sitting astatine a two-hour recital aft your kid has already performed, they’ll person to beryllium done the full thing.

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Those $13 dollar Bud Lights volition beryllium the slightest of it.

Buckle up, Gotham, it's gonna beryllium a bumpy ride, and if determination is immoderate Republican different than Curtis Sliwa who volition basal up against socialism, they should accidental truthful now, oregon they whitethorn truly, everlastingly clasp their peace.