For anyone who read my commentary last week at the Blaze, it should be no surprise that I am overjoyed that Zohran Mamdani trounced Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic primary on June 25. Mamdani’s opponent, former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, is a repulsive creep who killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers by filling nursing homes with COVID infected patients. He then lied persistently about his misdeeds. Adding insult to injury, Cuomo groped and mishandled vulnerable women, an offense that led to his resignation from his office in disgrace. Finally, Cuomo removed bail for violent criminals, something he tried to cover up in his primary race by promising to be tough on crime. The fact that Wall Street plutocrats—led by the feckless former mayor, Michael Bloomberg—were backing this shameless reprobate made me even more eager to see him defeated.

Clearly, I am not happy to see Mamdani victorious because I agree with his politics. Looking at the positions he advocates, I can’t find one that doesn’t turn my stomach—but that is also the case listening to Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar. I’ve been told that Mamdani is worse than these other leftists because he calls himself a socialist and bleeds for Hamas. Let me register my doubts that once in office (if he manages to win the general election) he would do anything to nationalize anything. His Upper East Side Manhattan backers, who poured out to vote for him, wouldn’t allow him to act like Castro or Lenin.

What Mamdani would likely do if elected mayor would be to make all the horrible conditions produced by New York’s big-city government even worse. Streets, outside of the opulent neighborhoods inhabited by Mamdani’s benefactors, will be overrun by criminal thugs, New York City will become even more of a magnet for LGBTQ and BLM exhibitionists, and normal people will move out of the urban zoo even faster than they’re doing right now.

For those who assert that Mamdani represents a plunge into leftist madness that was not taking place before, please note how well he’s been foreshadowed by such high-ranking Democratic politicians as the Squad, Jasmine Crockett, Hakeem Jeffries, Mazie Hirono, and other prominent figures within the party. Lots of ostentatious cultural leftists are already swarming all over Congress and occupying statehouses. Except for Mamdani’s use of the verboten term “socialist” and his outspokenly anti-Israeli positions, someone like him fits quite well into the present Democratic Party. I’ve no idea how he represents a greater leap into leftist cultural politics than others in his party who already hold public office or ranting on MSNBC.

Moreover, there’s a good chance that in the general election Mamdani will be forced to divide his share of the popular vote with other Democrats, e.g., Cuomo and the present Democratic mayor Eric Adams, who will be running as an independent. That competition might even allow Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, who will be the champion of law-and-order, to squeeze through and win the mayoral race. Sliwa is the only candidate whom I’d really like to see win, but I would feel lots of Schadenfreude if a Mamdani victory took place in November.

 For decades, New Yorkers and denizens of our other large cities have been making things worse for themselves, voting for pro-criminal political candidates, supporting every kind of freakish social experiment, and more recently drooling over criminal illegals. Contrary to the twaddle on Fox News, these urbanites have not been the victims of the Democratic Party. It’s exactly the opposite. These nutcases have transformed the Democratic Party from a working-class party into a collection of government workers and psychopaths.  It’s a matter of moral justice that these “progressives” be made to live with a state-of-the-art version of what they have happily given themselves. Unfortunately, this process will negatively impact normal people who lack the funds to move into guarded apartment houses or to get out of the urban turmoil. That makes me hesitate about treating Mamdani as an avenging angel.

But even considering the drawbacks of a Mamdani administration, his election may accelerate a trend that seems both inevitable and desirable. Sane people who can afford it will continue to get out of big cities controlled by criminals and lunatics; and those who revel in decay will be left to enjoy the mischief they’ve produced.

Let me finish this commentary by speculating on how Muslim politicians like Ilhan Omar and Mamdani and their counterparts in Germany and England manage to combine wacko leftist social positions with expressions of Muslim fervor. To whatever extent these people are devout Muslims, they should be on the same side with the Christian right on all social questions. Muslim parents all over the country have indeed moved in this direction and raised their voices against LGBTQ instruction in schools. That that’s not the case with Muslim politicians may be attributed to one of two causes: Either they’re playing the same game as the old Communist Parties that allied with libertarian and free speech groups on their way to taking power. Or else they’re using their Islamic identification as a battering ram to destroy what remains of traditional Western societies. As should be obvious, I lean toward the second interpretation.