The 2025 election is all over except the shouting, and there’s going to be plenty of shouting. In New York City, the remaining productive residents are deep into planning their exits to friendlier territory, like New Jersey, Texas, Florida, or maybe even Buffalo. Why? Because of the mayoral election victory of the admitted socialist, a man who has never done an honest day’s work in his life, Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani, meanwhile, is likewise deep into planning – his transition. On Wednesday, we learned that he has brought the former chief of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, to co-chair his transition team. Because why not annoy big tech straight away, instead of waiting until he takes office?
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) has brought on former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to co-lead his transition team, he announced Wednesday.
Khan, who led the FTC during the Biden administration, will co-chair the Mamdani transition with three other veterans of New York City Hall, the mayor-elect announced in a statement.
“New Yorkers sent a clear message this week that it’s time to build a city that working people can actually afford. I’m excited to help Zohran build a team that will usher in a new era for New York City and set a new model for Democratic governance,” Khan said in a statement.
Oh, it’s going to be a new era, all right – an era in which anyone with enough brains to pound sand will get the blazes out of New York City, if they haven’t left already. Less than 24 hours after the election results were known, at least one key city figure has called it quits, and we can’t blame him, especially since President Trump is looking to crack down on the Big Apple’s dumbest choice of mayors ever.
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Here’s the liability for Mamdani:
Khan played an integral and controversial role in former President Biden’s antitrust and consumer protection agenda. As FTC chair, she ramped up scrutiny of corporate mergers while spearheading administration efforts to defend Americans from unfair business practices, such as “junk fees” and mandatory arbitration clauses.
While progressives applauded Khan’s efforts to crack down on corporate power, the Biden administration’s aggressive stance toward Big Tech also played a role in pushing several major Silicon Valley figures toward the right.
Remember that remarkable swing of tech leaders towards Trump? The machinations of Lina Khan were part of the reason for that. And here’s the really fun bit: In any upcoming Mamdani mayoral administration, given the likely sort of people the new resident of Gracie Mansion is about to surround himself with, Lina Khan may come off as being one of the moderates of the group. But then, Zohran Mamdani is dragging the political Overton Window of New York City off to the left, over the edge, into the depths, popping back up well beyond “Here Be Monsters” territory.
Lina Khan was born in London to Pakistani immigrant parents. Her education and career have all served to burnish her “progressive” credentials. She will, almost certainly, find a home in the upcoming Mamdani mayor’s office once the transition is over, and if she is typical of the kinds of people Mamdani plans to bring in, well then, New York City may be in even deeper trouble than we had thought.
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