Three days before last week’s elections, the once-trenchant “Saturday Night Live” devoted its cold opening skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani, now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so much my face hurts.” The joke was that Mamdani’s permanent grin is false, an artifice he uses to appear relatable.
Well, “SNL” is no longer the must-watch entertainment it was in its earlier years, but it remains a good political prognosticator. Mamdani’s face hurts no more; the metamorphosis from candidate to mayor-elect means the toothy grin is gone, and Mamdani can now bear his totalitarian fangs.
On election night, the soon-to-be “Hizzhoner” devoted his nearly 25-minute victory speech at the Brooklyn Paramount theater to laying out his politics of grievances and a worldview made up of the oppressed and their oppressors, the stock-in-trade of all good Marxists since the 1848 Communist Manifesto.
Mamdani Won an Election Not a Revolution
A question at this point is why the Democratic Party allowed Mamdani’s true political faction, the Democratic Socialists of America, to take it over. DSA members repeatedly make clear that they do not like the Democratic Party, but that their strategy is to become zombie-like body snatchers in a bad Halloween movie.
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