Both Democrats and Republicans are equally terrified of Zohran Mamdani. To establishment Dems, Mamdani represents an existential threat to their geriatric power base and do-nothing philosophy: a popular, charismatic, young socialist who regular people actually like. This cannot be tolerated.
To Republicans? Commie, commie, commie, also muslim! As his personal popularity soars and his chances of becoming New York’s next mayor increase by the day, both parties are frantically trying to figure out a way to clip his wings.
Dirt-digging exercises appear to have failed, with the ‘worst’ they can that he lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, that he once borrowed a table while at college, and that his mother produced a movie that was part-funded by Qatar (…the same Qatar that just gave Trump a jet?).
So, they can’t smear him, but they can try to interfere with the election. A major problem is that the vote against Mamdani is split between recently-defeated sex pest Andrew Cuomo and scandal-riddled current mayor Eric Adams. If both stay in the race, Mamdani cruises to victory.
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
To prevent this, the Trump administration is apparently considering offering Adams a deal: drop out of the mayoral race and we’ll give you a lucrative job at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Adams has insisted he’s staying in, but it’s got to be tempting to take the Trump bribe…
For Mamdani, this just underlines his arguments about corruption in politics, saying these people simply don’t care about democracy, only “their own power”:
When Trump, Cuomo and Adams scheme behind closed doors, they're not worried about your future or the city you're struggling to afford.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) September 3, 2025
It's only about their own power. pic.twitter.com/Y9Y1qpQ3pn
He’s been backed up by Bernie Sanders, who says this is “a clear example of a corrupt political system”:
The NYC mayor’s race is a clear example of a corrupt political system:@ZohranKMamdani wins the Democratic primary.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 3, 2025
The oligarchs spend whatever it takes to defeat him.
Democratic leadership refuses to endorse him.
Together, we will take them all on and elect Zohran as mayor.
If this tactic fails (and it looks like it’s already damaging Cuomo), those who want to see Mamdani lose the race will be left with few options. Attacking his popular policies just exposes more people to them, he has no skeletons in his closet, his open support for Palestine is a net benefit to him, and throwing the race isn’t working.
But, when all else fails, maybe Trump will go nuclear, revoke his citizenship, and toss him out of the country? It sounds crazy, but who really knows with Trump?
