WTH: Will New York Elect a Communist Mayor? Seth Mandel Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Last month, New York City took to the polls for their mayoral primary and the Democratic party has decided that a socialist, communist, terrorist supporting, antisemite, is the best candidate for mayor of New York City. Zohran Mamdani is a radical left "intersectionality salad". Between his unironic quotation of Marx to raps about the Holy Land Five, we're left wondering what New Yorkers are thinking and how Mamdani came to these "beliefs". Is this really the path out of the wilderness for the Democratic party?
Seth Mandel is the Senior editor of Commentary Magazine who frequently writes on Israel, antisemitism, and national politics. Previously, he has worked as executive editor of the Washington Examiner print edition between 2018 and 2023, and worked previously as an op-ed editor at the New York Post.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
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| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.2 | What the hell is going on in New York? |
| 0:37.2 | What the hell is going on is the York? What the hell is going on is the Democrats |
| 0:39.6 | have nominated a communist to run for mayor. A communist anti-Semite. A communist anti-Semite. And I swear |
| 0:45.9 | usually in American politics, when you say somebody's a communist, that's usually hyperbole. |
| 0:51.7 | No, this is not hyperbole. He is actually a communist. This is a man who has |
| 0:58.1 | literally tweeted that we need to seize the means of production for the workers. We need a policy |
| 1:04.5 | from each according to his ability to each according to his needs, which is straight out of |
| 1:09.3 | Karl Marx's description of communism, |
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