All signs point to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City tomorrow. The New York Post makes a valiant last stand against him in the editorial “20 reasons to vote against NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.” However, 750,000 votes have reportedly been cast in early voting before election day and the opposition to Mamdani is both divided and weak.
Mamdani has already become the new face of the Democratic Party. He is nevertheless a full-throated member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Most of us have lived so far in blissful ignorance of the DSA. Canary Mission has published the informative backgrounder “Hostile Takeover: The DSA’s Plan to Capture American Politics.”
The Canary Mission backgrounder states: “If successful, this project would transform one of America’s great political parties into an unrecognizable entity hostile to the institutions that define our country.” The Democratic Party appears headed in that direction on its own — see Adam Coleman’s New York Post column “Non-hostile takeover” — but it is clear we should get to know the DSA.
I regret to add that Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is also a member of the DSA. The backgrounder should be of interest to those of us in the Twin Cities as well. It puts the Star Tribune’s weak feature on the DSA by Deena Winter to shame.
