After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool.
So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”
I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.
As a good soldier in the ranks of Black Lives Matter, Mamdani now insists he did not trash the police and advocate defunding them. Neither did he really, really mean to claim falsely he was African-American when he applied to college nor did really, really mean to post a video mocking the Jewish holiday of Hannukah.
Mamdani once thought it was cool to boast about defunding the police when he was an edgy, rising, left-wing community activist.
But then it was smarter to play it down as a candidate. And now it is essential to lie and deny it as a front-runner.
As a good communist, Mamdani echoed Karl Marx by bragging about his ultimate agenda: “the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
But whose “means of production” would Mamdani start seizing?
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