The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.

On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election.

The outcome, one of the first major Democratic primaries since Donald Trump returned to office, is being considered as a barometer for the party’s potential recalibration nationally, at a time when it remains ideologically divided about its future.

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    I’m calling on the federal government to strip the citizenship of every member and associate of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) because they are a threat to the USA.

    ICE needs to step in and quickly deport them before their case can be heard in court.

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    Sadly, he’s going to lose by a significant amount. The media will smear him and social media will bury him in lies.

    Be idealistic all you want, but we’re going to lose.

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      Mamdani is going to lose what? He already won the primary and since he’s running as a Democrat he has functionally won the NYC mayoral race when that happens.

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      he might be a socialist and as left as any candidate can be, but somehow, he will institute Sharia law, stone gays, make burka mandatory… because the right is that unfathomably racist

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    Yeah that’s not going to happen. Zohran Mandani is in no way a threat to the US. Period.

    If it did happen I bet LA this last month will look like a slumber party compared to what will happen as a result of this actually happening.

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    If he does. Time for even more mass protests. Shut down the streets of New York until his citizenship is restored.

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    In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. In theory, this outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and banned communists from serving in certain roles.

    WTF

    [It passed because] many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was “no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote”.

    • Wikipedia

    The irony of using it here would be palpable

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    What will the average non-bootlicking american will do if this happens? I have hope that this kind of event would be the trigger for the passive majority to actually resist.

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    Appalling. Only the repugnicans would stoop this low. He’s been American since 2018. If they succeed in this - the US is truly Germany in the early 1930s.

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      The US is already there. We arrived about 2-3 months ago.

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      Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.

      If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).

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        Exactly. Authoritarianism is driven by two things, fearful followers who want to combat their fear with control, and social dominator leaders who take advantage of fearful followers for their own benefit.

        Here is an entire free book full of research on the topic.

        https://theauthoritarians.org/

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        That is the core characteristic of ALL Conservatives - Fear. They are so afraid of EVERYTHING, that they want to preserve the safe little bubble they are in right now. ANY change is to be feared, and attacked.

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          It’s almost understandable until you realize it’s not just change for themselves they fear, it’s change for anyone else. Somehow, in their twisted minds, an increase in rights and humane treatment for others hurts them.

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            It’s because they fear they will lose their social “status” of being “better” than someone else. Because if everyone is the same then they can’t be “better”

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            Conservatives see the world as a zero sum. In order for one group of people to gain rights, another group has to lose rights.

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        Citizenship is a contract that gives you protection in exchange for some expectations to participate in the community.

        Revoking citizenship is a huge deal. Not easily done, and I don’t think its even used as a punishment.

        If they were to? Then they’ll happily revoke it for anyone who dissents with the regime.

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          Revoking citizenship is a huge deal. Not easily done, and I don’t think its even used as a punishment.

          "… use of denaturalization … is a form of punishment more primitive than torture … " – Trop v. Dulles, 1958, denaturalization unsuitable punishment for 1944 wartime military desertion.

          The use of it as an arbitrary tool to instill fear and chill participation in public office should immediately be addressed as uttering threats as a mob.

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      I doubt it. We’ve already tolerated a near complete collapse of the rule of law and masked goon squads kidnapping people in the streets. Disappearing one more brown guy probably isn’t going to move that needle much.

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        New Yorkers are a hard bunch. I would expect some enthusiastic protest if their guy got taken from them before he could even get in office.

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        Revoking citizenship is an extreme move. They don’t even revoke citizenship of criminals.

        This would be crossing a line they are unlikely to even understand.

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          I’ll join you happily. I’m just pretty confident that we will be easy to arrest since it will probably be us and a handful of other people.

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        Millions of people around the country turned out to protest that, and the protests are ongoing. Also, this isn’t “one more brown guy,” he’s one of the most visible politicians in the country right now.

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          Yeah, it also looks like it actually increased participation in LA, which the ICE, NG and Marines supposed to scare

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          I understand that things are happening. I’ve been to some of those protests and seen the people making a stand firsthand. It’s certainly not nothing. I’m just saying that the response we’ve seen so far is what I would have predicted for his first term. We should be making a bunch of fascists a foot shorter by now.

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    I am becoming increasingly sick of seeing the word ‘deport’ being used by Republicans who are suggesting revoking citizenship and a banishment. It’s exile.

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            It might be against my, and your, morals but each of the things I pointed out were carried out by Americans within the bounds of the law. Unfortunately whether or not this fits in with the morals and laws of the US as a whole is very much up for debate.

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            I’m not saying it never happened before, I’m saying it’s against our laws and morals.

            It’s only against our laws and morals if we actually don’t do it, and don’t allow it to be done again.

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        I hate to break it to you, but Americans are exceedingly inculcated with the idea of exiling racial groups.

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              Ah, you’re making the mistake of thinking we have free and fair presidential elections. We do not. It’s fucked.

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                I don’t know any R voter who has a single bad thing to say about what’s going on right now. I haven’t seen one online either. (except those saying it’s not going far or fast enough) I peek at /r/conservative every so often and it’s nothing but cheerleading.

                And nothing happening right now is a surprise to anyone who wasn’t trying not to see it.

                They are cool with it, or it’s not a dealbreaker, at best.

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                  I know plenty of folks… and social media and youtube has a LOT of outspoken Republicans that don’t like Trump. I mean, this is not a small number either. I even met some at the NOKINGS protest.

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                  I’ve seen several regretful Trump voters in news articles.

                  But yeah, haven’t met any IRL either. Including my own parents.

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            Matters little if that “very small group” has power and is getting away with it

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            “Sure the numbers are really bad and it keeps happening but…”

            I’m gunna need you to shut your stupid fucking mouth. The US is a dangerous hellhole and no amount of deflection will override the fact that the country has a long and storied history of doing awful things to people at home and across the world. The reason you personally suck isn’t because you’re from the US, it’s because you’re trying to save yourself by downplaying the severity of what the country is doing. Be better.

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                You’ve probably never lived in the USA. From the sound of it.

                I’ve lived here going on 60 years, in multiple parts of the country, in about ten different states. I’m also a veteran.

                the country has a long and storied history of doing awful things to people at home and across the world.

                100% accurate, whether that other commenter lives here or not.

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      Deporting immigrants is one thing. But when a country starts deporting it’s own citizens, and stripping them or reducing their citizenship to justify their treatment, well… before you know it, the half-citizen deportees end up coming out of the concentration camps through the chimney.

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    Don’t Republicans hate New York? You’d think they’d be thrilled with the opportunity for socialism to ruin one of the bluest cities in the US. Maybe they’re worried something else will happen.

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    The White House has framed the upset victory by Mamdani, who could become New York City’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor, as evidence of uncontrolled migration…

    And by “uncontrolled migration” they mean “brown people getting uppity and not knowing their place.”