Thursday, September 18, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses Zohran Mamdani and the New York mayoral race, why Democrats are in a panic over Mamdani’s success, and why societies never come back from socialism.
Part I (00:14 – 12:45)
Is Zohran Mamdani Inevitable? The Muslim, Democratic Socialist Appears to Have New York Mayoral Race in the Bag
- Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani by The New York Times (Kathy Hochul)
- As Mamdani’s Stature Grows, He Tries to Shed Some Past Stances by The New York Times (Eliza Shapiro)
Democrats are in a Panic: Mamdani is Attempting to Soften His Positions – No One, Not Even Democrats, Believe It
- Zohran Mamdani backs off some, but not all, of his wildest positions by The Washington Post (The Editorial Board)
A Society Cannot Come Back from Socialism: There is No “After Socialism” – History Makes That Point Emphatically Clear
- Can There be an “After Socialism”? by The Atlas Society (Alan Charles Kors)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 18, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Let's be honest, if about two years ago you were told that a 33-year-old Muslim Democratic Socialist is about to be elected mayor of New York City, |
| 0:22.6 | I think you would have thought this is some kind of a miniseries. But no, it's not a mini-series. |
| 0:27.6 | It's not fiction, it's fact. And it appears right now that Zoran Mamdani is moving fast towards |
| 0:35.4 | election as the mayor of New York City. |
| 0:37.9 | America's largest city in population and the epicenter of America's cultural elite. |
| 0:42.9 | We need to understand the outsized influence of New York. |
| 0:45.9 | Just as New Yorkers. |
| 0:47.5 | It is the center of finance in the United States. |
| 0:50.6 | It is the center of so much of the business world in the United States. |
| 0:53.9 | We talk about the New York Stock Exchange, and that just basically says a very great deal right |
| 0:59.8 | there. We're talking about Wall Street. We're talking about cultural assets, the opera, |
| 1:04.4 | the orchestras. We're talking about New York as the center of the museum life of the nation. |
| 1:09.3 | You just go down the list. And of course, in terms of the museum life of the nation. You just go down the list. |
| 1:11.6 | And, of course, in terms of the TV networks and entertainment and all the rest, academia, |
| 1:18.2 | an outsized influence in this city, which seems to be outsized in virtually every way, |
| 1:22.4 | which makes it all the more outsize a realization that it appears the city is about to elect a 33-year-old |
| 1:29.5 | Democratic Socialist Muslim as mayor. |
| 1:33.1 | Now, one of the things we need to note is that saying there's anything amiss here is considered |
| 1:39.3 | something of a thought crime among many in the United States to suggest that it might be, let's just use the word odd, |
| 1:46.5 | that there would be a 33-year-old Democratic socialist Muslim mayor of New York City to suggest |
| 1:52.7 | there might be something amiss here. Well, for Democrats in particular, that is turning out to be |
| 1:56.8 | the recipe for political disaster, maybe even political suicide. And that's why Democrats are now |
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