What Mamdani Says About Socialists in New Interview Should Concern Us All
By Nick Arama | 7:41 PM on June 28, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohram Mamdani did an interview with ABC's Jon Karl after the three far-left candidates he supported - two of whom are socialists - won their Democratic primary races.
One of the reasons they were able to do this in NYC is because the Democratic establishment is so used to their candidates just winning in their primaries and people just voting Democrat in the general election, they don't really have the "get out the vote" thing in hand. So in low voter turnout races, the far left is better at marshalling its people to get out. While that's not necessarily something you're going to find in a lot of other places, the fact that the socialists are on the rise, and elsewhere, is a problem for all of us.
Mamdani's interview with Karl looked like an effort to put a nice face on the threat, where Mamdani tries to mollify us all and act like this is a good thing. Yeah, no, not going to work. But this guy is very slick.
Here he is playing word games about whether he supports there being a state of Israel.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/2071253403322515733more
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/28/mamdani-interview-n2203815
