Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Last week, Zoran Mamdani secured the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, the 33-year-old

assemblyman, gained a lot of traction in the final days of the primary contest to beat former

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo by seven points.

As one article put it, Mamdani chose, quote, TikTok over talk shows, first wooing influencers and

young people before eventually even winning most of the upper middle class white vote.

Mamdani ran as a Democratic socialist, a political party that U.S. voters have never yet

put into power. That made his win even more shocking, considering that New York City is one of the

most capitalist cities in the world. And Mamdani has promised to establish government-run grocery

stores, provide free bus fare and free child care, to freeze low-rent buildings, to hike minimum wage to $30 an hour,

to shift the tax burden to, and I quote here, richer and wider neighborhoods,

and to use $65 million of taxpayer money to pay for transgender surgeries.

In addition to his radical social and economic policies,

Mom Doni's ideologies about Israel and the West should also be noted.

After Tel Aviv Israel, the New York metro area is, after all, the largest Jewish community in the world.

And since the massacre on October 7th, two years ago, the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, protesters in New York and elsewhere,

of threatened and intimidated Jews, voicing their support for both Palestine and Hamas,

with genocidal chants like from the river to the sea and globalized the Intifada.

In Mamdani's first social media post on October the 8th, the day after the attacks,

he blamed not Hamas, butth the day after the attacks. He blamed, not Hamas,

but the Israeli government for the attacks. And when press in interviews about the chance,

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