petrified that with Mamdani, the mask is coming off. And Republicans are very glad to see them being forced to drop the charade. Because, don’t kid yourself, being a Democrat is a charade. And Mamdani is making it impossible to keep up the act.
The only heartening thing is that they cannot show who they actually are and still get elected. Not in most normal places, anyway. Leftism is all about hiding and lying. Without deception, there is no Leftism! It would be only a tiny rump of a political philosophy if there were no deception.
Zohran Mamdani, the avowed socialist leading the race for New York mayor, may give Republicans the perfect foil to run against in 2026. He’s so outrageously extreme that the GOP won’t even have to exaggerate that much to portray him as dangerous and antithetical to American values and norms.
… “Mamdani is the greatest threat to Democrats probably since Ronald Reagan because he’s everything Democrats have been accused of being and in fact is — to the extreme,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime New York Democratic operative. “Republican ad makers will know what to do with this.”