The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The conventional wisdom is that the soon-to-be-NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani is an unrepentant communist who will bring the societal havoc that is part and parcel of socialism to NYC's streets.

Except...it's already there. The NYC council is probably more left than Mamdani, and the city's crime policies have been destroyed by a combination of leftist mayors and leftist governors. Criminals roam NYC's streets with impunity, and they have for a very long time. That the city hasn't descended into anarchy like Chicago and Oakland and Memphis and Detroit and Baltimore and New Orleans (see a pattern?) is the remnants of four terms of mayors who took public safety seriously. But that is rapidly eroding, and the coming election will not change NYC's trajectory.

NY 'justice' is now a revolving door for serial violent perps -- and Zohran Mamdani will make it WORSE

All this is the fruit of a half-decade of misguided criminal-justice reforms and a political culture that produces soft-on-crime judges — both of them the product of the progressive “decarceral” movement that insists jail and prison are the wrong approach to even serial violent criminals, even as it offers no better way to protect the public.

What is even more problematic is that the conventional wisdom is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the mosque: Mamdani is an Islamist. He comes from a family of Islamists, and he embraces the goals of Islam, which is the creation of a world-wide Caliphate. His communism is a tool with which to bring sharia to the ignorant masses, and that is more dangerous than an incremental shift to the left for NYC. He will not defend the large Jewish community of NYC from the predatory anti-Semites who see Jews as fair game. He will shift the tone of the city administration to hyper-sensitivity to "anti-Muslim" rhetoric and behavior (which is a vanishingly small problem), and he will cheerfully allow sharia-compliant rules to ooze into city policies.

And of course he will bring his lunatic foreign policy to New York City's streets. He claims that he will arrest the prime minister of Israel if he ever comes to NYC, under the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant. The small issue with that is: the United States is not a party to the ICC, so its warrants have no force of law in America. Will he also remove police protection from Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomatic facilities? Will he be antagonistic to traditional Christian organizations?

Islam has a single goal, and its adherents are single-minded in its pursuit. Mamdani is simply an Islamist under cover of communism, using the useful idiots of the left to further his Islamist goals.

It is tremendously destructive to have sharia-compliant cities in America. Dearborn MI, and Paterson NJ are small, but NYC is the largest city in the nation and will have a commensurate influence over policy and tone for the nation's cities.

That is an unalloyed bad thing, and the next four years will be a struggle to combat encroaching Islam.

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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