October 30, 2025
Why New York yuppies love Zohran Mamdani’s socialism
By Joseph Ford Cotto
It’s one of the strangest spectacles in modern American politics. The high-flying professionals of New York’s white-collar class are now marching behind an avowed socialist, Zohran Mamdani. These are the same lawyers, traders, and tech specialists who once embodied the American dream.
His campaign thrives not in the boroughs where poverty festers but in luxury neighborhoods like Park Slope and Williamsburg, where median household incomes exceed $200,000—he’s even captured 43% of the overall Jewish vote, with that number rising to a whopping 67% when you look at the voters between the ages of 18 and 44. Furthermore, a brand new poll out this morning shows that Mamdani now holds a staggering 25-point lead over Andrew Cuomo.
That support exposes less a moral awakening than a crisis of a lack of self-control. Mamdani’s backers are not victims of capitalism’s failures but of their own overreach. They lived beyond their means, inflating lifestyles that no paycheck could sustain, and now look to government to subsidize the consequences.
His promises include rent freezes, free childcare, and public ownership of utilities. They sound like lifelines to people who have confused debt with success. Yet they are fiscal landmines, guaranteed to make the city’s affordability crisis even worse by strangling investment, draining tax revenue, and driving employers away.
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