You may remember the reign of terror in New York City unleashed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio punished private businesses, harassed them to enforce his vaccine policies, and brought chaos to New York City. Now, the NY Post says Mamdani will “OBVIOUSLY be far worse than Bill de Blasio.” The editors explain that de Blasio was bad, but that Mamdani would be worse, writing:
Mamdani would take over determined to immediately undo the progress of recent months under Commissioner Jessica Tisch — with priorities that would make it impossible for her to stay on.
After all, he’s a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a hard left anti-policing group that celebrates cop killers.
Just two years ago Mamdani combined his hatred of cops and Israel by proclaiming, “When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
Mamdani is on record advising people to talk their way out of scary confrontations instead of calling the police, whom he has labeled as racist and violent.
He effectively wants to defund the police by carving out a new agency run by social workers to (supposedly) handle the hundreds of thousands of 911 calls to deal with meltdowns by violent, mentally ill people.
De Blasio at first also took care to not radicalize the city Department of Education, choosing as his first chancellor Carmen Fariña, a veteran educrat unlikely to rock the boat; when she left, he actually tried to hire a decent replacement — who backed out at the last minute, prompting Blas to fall back on the horrific woke hack Richard Carranza.
Again, Blas gradually did longterm damage — pandering to the teachers union, warring on charter schools, launching lunatic social-engineering schemes in the name of racial “equity.”
But he fought to retain mayoral control; Mamdani wants to ditch that power and leave no clear accountability for the DOE’s inevitable decline.
The contrast is strongest when it comes to antisemitism: Blas built solid relations with most Jewish communities in his time in Brooklyn politics; Mamdani’s only positive relations on this front are with ultraprogressive Jews who are more prone to criticize Israel than defend it.
The other huge contrast comes when you look at potential checks on a mayor’s worst ambitions: Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo practically obsessed with frustrating (or sometime stealing) de Blasio’s agenda items; Gov. Kathy Hochul’s stance on Mamdani remains to be seen, but for his first year she’ll be eager to please him in hopes it boosts her own 2026 re-election hopes.
No one ever mistook this page for Blas fans, but a Mamdani mayoralty promises to make de Blasio’s reign look a lot less awful.
Action Line: A mayoralty that makes de Blasio look “less awful” will trash New York City for decades to come. The Big Blue Blobs are suffering because they keep electing politicians who see residents as piggy banks to fund radical agendas. If you are looking to escape the city, consider Your Survival Guy’s 2025 Super States. Click here to subscribe to my free monthly Survive & Thrive letter.
