Mamdani discovers how hateful his supporters are

Mamdani discovers how hateful his supporters are


New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has discovered that the hateful communist base he has cultivated does not care about the intricacies of governing, and he has no one to blame but himself.

Mamdani attended a memorial last week for the victims of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that took place in Israel three years ago. No one is (or, at least, should be) under the impression that Mamdani actually cares about the 1,200 Israeli civilians who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, but attending the memorial is quite literally the least he can do as the mayor of a city with a sizable Jewish population. (A Jewish population that is quickly souring on Mamdani, for obvious reasons.)

Mamdani is an antisemite constrained by the realities of politics, but his supporters have no such restrictions. Thus, they showed up to the memorial to heckle him for daring to (pretend to) show any sympathy toward the murdered civilians, booing him and chanting, “Zohran, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” Mamdani supporters also protested him at City Hall for failing to be pro-Palestinian enough after he failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he had futilely promised he would.

Mamdani is also facing blowback from supporters over his stance on policing. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot a criminal illegal immigrant in the city, Mamdani’s supporters began pushing for him to oust the city’s police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. Tisch is a well-respected holdover from Eric Adams’s tenure as mayor, and Mamdani has chosen to work with her despite his personal hatred of police. Mamdani is now reportedly upset that his supporters, including House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, are undermining him by trying to push Tisch out, as they also pressure Mamdani to eliminate the New York Police Department's Strategic Response Group.

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