After New York City’s race for mayor catapulted Zohran Mamdani from state assembly member into one of the world’s most prominent progressive voices, intense debate swirled over the ideas at the heart of his campaign.
His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal child care and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive.
But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. “He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,” said Dutch environmentalist and former government advisor Alexander Verbeek in the wake of Tuesday’s election.
Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo café, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal.
You’re being invaded. There will be no one to pat you on your back for tolerance in the future. Islam is violent, illiberal and determined to tear down Christendom and the Western Civilization it birthed. It will weigh down your social services until they grind to a halt as they handily out breed the native population. They are not coming to assimilate. They hate the West and see it as morally abhorrent. You clearly have no idea who’s moving to your continent.
Who told you that?
Next time they shutdown the main thoroughfare in one of your big cities for thousands of Muslims to pray in public go ask them if they are excited to assimilate and start eating pork and letting their daughters be equal to men. They’ll tell you themselves.