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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Mayor Mamdani’s Socialist Vision Is Setting NYC Up for Failure

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Last week, New York City elected Zohran Mamdani to be its next mayor. And while he claims to be a democratic socialist, the dangerous ideas he champions make him out to be more of a communist than anything. How will this fare for New York City—the financial capital of the world? And what exactly is […]

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Zoran Mondami was elected mayor of New York City, not just the financial capital of the United States,

0:36.4

but of the world. And he's a devout socialist.

0:39.3

If we look at the contemporary world in the recent past and in the present,

0:44.3

everywhere a socialist paradigm has been implemented, it has done two things.

0:49.3

Destroyed the economy and made people poor and two deprived people of their civil liberties.

0:56.5

Soviet Union collapsed, Mao's China collapsed. Cuba is in free fall since the Castro

1:03.7

brothers took over in 1959. Venezuela was at one time the wealthiest country in Latin America.

1:10.6

It's collapsed to a lesser extent.

1:12.6

Peru, Colombia.

1:13.6

Anybody who adopts it, it has not done well.

1:16.6

Socialism has nothing to offer.

1:18.6

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

1:32.9

Socialism is in the news.

1:35.5

Zoran Mondami did the unthinkable.

1:38.0

He was elected to be mayor of New York City, the financial capital, not just of the United States, but of the world at

1:45.1

large. And he's a devout socialist. But he is admitted, he likes to deny it, that he's really

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