November 8, 2025
Revolution Comes to New York City
By Greg Salsbury
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” — David Horowitz, when he was still part of the left.
That quote, often dismissed as cynical, is in fact the key to understanding Zohar Mamdani’s victory in New York City. While pundits fixate on charisma, free buses, and grocery stores, and immigrant outreach, they miss the deeper truth: Mamdani’s win was not about policy; it was about revolution.
This was not a vote for municipal tweaks. It was a vote for rupture.
Mamdani’s core supporters were not casting ballots for groceries or rent freezes. They were voting against the system itself—against the Constitution as it was written, against the legacy of liberal democracy, and against the institutional scaffolding of American governance. This was a “Queers for Hamas”-type moment: a seemingly paradoxical coalition united not by shared values with the candidate, but by shared opposition to the regime. Just as LGBTQ activists chanting for Hamas are not endorsing its theology, Mamdani’s voters were not endorsing his grocery math. They were endorsing the overthrow.
His victory speech made this unmistakably clear. He opened not with policy, but with reference to early 20th-century socialist and serial presidential candidate Eugene Debs: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” He invoked activist Nehru’s post-colonial rhetoric: “We have stepped out from the old into the new.” And he framed his win as a toppling of dynasties, not a recalibration of city budgets. “These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said, referencing voters such as warehouse workers and delivery bikers—not to promise them subsidies, but to declare their symbolic seizure of authority. “...let tonight be the final time I utter his name...” he told us in a symbolic political exorcism of and ritual severance from the Cuomo reign.
This is not the language of governance. It is the language of power and revolution.
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