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Here’s how you know Democrats are cursed: They lose even when they win.
In a week where President Trump kept his promise to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, forged a cease-fire in its war with Israel, scored a huge victory at the Supreme Court and saw the stock market hit a new historic high, Dems won . . . another giant headache.
His name is Zohran Mamdani and his victory in New York’s mayoral primary is already proving to be more of a problem than a solution to the Dems’ woes.
His uber-progressive platform is so extreme that he’s driving leading lefties to pretend to be moderates!
Normally, winning the mayoral nomination is cause for party celebration because the Dem nominee usually prevails in deep blue Gotham, meaning more power, prestige and patronage.
Besides, the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman routed bogeyman Andrew Cuomo and others with a campaign that boosted turnout among the kind of young voters who have been drifting away from the party.
Top Dems dismayed
The hitch is that Mamdani’s ideas, including giving away lots of free stuff, are so extreme that New York’s Dem leaders are giving him the cold shoulder — and a slapdown.
He’s a true socialist who wants to freeze the rents on a million privately owned apartments and favors taxing homes owned by whites at higher rates than those owned by nonwhites.
He promises government supermarkets, called for defunding the police and — naturally — taxing the “rich.”
If that weren’t trouble enough, Mamdani is also a proven antisemite.
His history and agenda are prompting an outcry among even some fellow Dems and a budding effort to defeat him in the general election.
They believe a Mamdani mayoralty would be good only if the goal is to boost Trump’s popularity and help Republicans sweep next year’s elections.
In fact, some see Mamdani as so radioactive that they are refusing to endorse him, lest they get tarred with his brush.
Gov. Hochul is rejecting a central promise of his platform, which is to impose big tax hikes on New York’s highest earners and corporations.
Hochul has rarely met a tax she doesn’t want to raise, but the state’s out-of-whack tax-and-spend structures already are making the Empire State the No. 1 exporter of residents to other states, a fact she cited in rejecting his tax plan.
Hochul is facing a tough re-election campaign next year and obviously fears that throwing her lot in with Mamdani would be political suicide in the rest of the state, which is more moderate than the city.
Another hurdle for many Dems is Mamdani’s refusal to recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.
He recently compounded that long-standing position, which includes support for the BDS movement, by defending the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
He claims it reflects “a desperate desire for equality and equal rights and standing up for Palestinian human rights,” but that’s nonsense, and the condemnations haven’t stopped.
The Washington Holocaust Museum called his argument “outrageous and especially offensive” and Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said the phrase is an “explicit incitement to violence.”
Manhattan Rep. Dan Goldman said the word “intifada” is “well understood to refer to the violent terror attacks against innocent Israeli civilians that occurred during the First and Second Intifadas.”
He added that “if Mr. Mamdani is unwilling to heed the request of major Jewish organizations to condemn this unquestionably antisemitic phrase, then he is unfit to lead a city with 1.3 million Jews — the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.”
Resistance by default
Even Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who is normally as quiet as the proverbial church mouse, denounced Mamdani.
“The global intifada is a statement that means destroy Israel and kill all the Jews,” she said.
Perhaps most important, the two New Yorkers who lead congressional Dems have withheld their support.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulated Mamdani, but said only they looked forward to meeting him to discuss his ideas.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall!
From a national perspective, the larger problem is that Mamdani represents another manifestation of the left’s compulsion to be rabidly against whatever Trump is for.
The recent resistance featured such bone-headed plays as Dems defending Central American gangsters Joe Biden let into the country and trying to undercut Trump’s magnificent success against Iran by citing a leaked “deep state” report that said damage to the nuclear facilities was minimal.
Only later did we learn that the leakers said they had “low confidence” in the accuracy of the report.
Yet with each of these clashes, Dems in Congress and their media megaphones shout and pound the table as if the end of the world as we know it is near unless Trump is stopped.
Like the boy who cried wolf, their hysteria is leading to national exhaustion — and now comes Mamdani’s absurd agenda.
Perhaps his radicalism represents peak madness, but even if not, Trump Derangement Syndrome is losing much of its ability to shape the national mood.
A prime example involves the many federal and state judges who jumped on the resistance bandwagon with rulings that are nakedly political efforts to thwart the president.
They got a dramatic comeuppance with the Supreme Court decision last week that curtailed their overreach in most instances.
Bumps in the road
None of this is to suggest Trump’s tenure has been without flaws.
His tariff zigzags have caused trade disruptions, anxiety over household budgets and led the Federal Reserve to hold off on lowering interest rates, a move that would benefit many in the beleaguered middle class he aims to help.
Similarly, the president’s promise to deport dangerous illegal aliens has seen its popularity undercut by cases where some of those rounded up had no criminal records.
Still, these are relative bumps on the road for a presidency that already has had a string of extraordinary successes.
At home and abroad, Trump has delivered big ticket reforms that will have lasting benefits for America and its allies.
For example, getting NATO members to realize he was right about the need for them to pay more for the common defense is one thing, but getting them to agree to more than double their annual pledge, to 5% of their GDP, is extraordinary.
Among other benefits, it’s a huge rebuke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
At home, the violations of Jewish students’ civil rights by elite universities would have persisted without Trump in the White House.
The same can be said for his assault on the issue of biological men participating in women’s sports and his effort to end public funding for the leftist indoctrination outfits known as PBS and NPR.
Trump did not discover these and other cultural rots, which were long ago identified.
His genius lies in having the courage to actually do something about them.
For that reason alone, history will be on his side.