In 1626, the Indian inhabitants of Manhattan Island received the equivalent of $24 in beads and trinkets for what they believed was allowing the Dutch to hunt parts of the land, not own it. As this legend rolled down through history, those poor people were characterized by having made one of the worst transactions in human history. Four hundred years later, they have been redeemed by modern New York City voters, who this week sold out their city for free food, a free ride, and a pass from work to an anti-American Muslim jefe, who has only been a U.S. citizen for seven years.
Zohran Mandami’s easy New York mayor electoral win on Tuesday will be cut and diced by the pundits trying to explain how an immigrant Muslim could become elected less than twenty-five years after militant Muslims killed over 3,000 New Yorkers on 9/11. With the highest concentration of Jews outside of Israel and making up as much as 30 percent of New York’s voters, how could an open anti-Semite who supported the Hamas 10/7 attacks prevail here? With almost 40 percent of New Yorkers born outside the U.S., did they immigrate here to live under socialism, which in some form prevailed in the country they left, or were they attracted to America as the ‘Land of Opportunity’?
The more significant investigation might consider the voters’ mayoral alternative of former Democratic New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who resigned his office in ignominy in August 2021 amid numerous sexual harassment charges. Cuomo had ridden into the governorship as the son of his highly popular father, Mario Cuomo, who served successfully as New York’s governor for three terms, from 1983 to 1994. However, Cumo’s misdeeds and bad policy decisions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, may have made Mamdani look like a bargain in comparison.
Or were Mamdani’s voters voting against the corrupt, embedded NYC Democratic establishment that runs their city?
Current New York Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed Mamdani, and former President Obama offered Mamdani support for implementing a socialist agenda, joining all Progressives across the nation backing him. After six years of Bill de Blasio, perhaps the city’s worst modern mayor, and two years of unpopular moderate Mayor Eric Adams, for giving New York voters such a poor choice in their Democratic-controlled backyard, the Democratic Party may be testing the water to determine the political viability of a candidate who meets the ideology of the party’s ascendant progressives.
By placing our largest and most prosperous city in the hands of a radical socialist, with 66 percent of Democrats nationally viewing socialism favorably, a Mamdani win may mark the completion of the self-destruction of the old Democratic Party. Moderate Democrats have been replaced and silenced by Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Scott Murphy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her fellow Squad members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders.
They all share the Obama dream of ‘fundamentally transforming the United States of America’, which, in his supporting Mandani statement, he just revealed his plan was for our becoming a Socialist America. Little has been made of Barack Obama’s communist mother and other relatives who influenced him during his formative years, nor of his father’s hatred for white colonial powers. Obama is finally doing America a valuable service by taking his intentions for America out of the closet, so his socialist views can be addressed directly and honestly.
Taking their success from this election, the Democratic Party could absorb the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party, founded in 1982, of which Mamdani is a member, and then adopt DSA as the Party’s new name. Their newly named party could use the existing Democratic operational structure to oppose the Republican Party, which itself was recently revitalized by Donald Trump. These changes would allow America’s voters to understand the direction for which their vote will be used, in the case of DSA, for ‘their long-term aim of social ownership of production’.
Socialism has no successful precedent to recommend it to the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Still, maybe previous attempts to implement socialism around the world lacked the talent to do so adroitly.
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John Whitmore Jenkins
November 6, 2025
