Comments on: The Mamdani victory in New York City https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Mac https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829281 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:52:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829281 huxley: Yes, Brideshead is great. Literary Catholics tend to swoon over it. And the tv adaptation is a rare instance of a dramatization being very true to a book and very good in its own right. Decline And Fall is a very very different sort of book, written much earlier than Brideshead. Vicious and very funny satire.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829231 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:59:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829231 It begins…and the usual suspects are already—gleefully spouting the usual monstrous perversities—shooting down the rabbit hole at warp speed.

The only question is whether it can be stopped.

“Mamdani’s socialist and Muslim backers, including Sarsour and Wahhaj, take victory lap”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/mamdanis-socialist-and-muslim-backers-including-sarsour-and-wahhaj-take

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829225 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:32:13 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829225 Indeed!

Embrace the power of…YES WE CAN!!

“Alleged Montclair jihadi yuppies posed with weapons, ranted about beheading infidels and attacking Jews in tony NJ suburb…”—
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/montclair-jihadi-yuppies-posed-with-weapons-ranted-about-attacking-jews-docs/

( To the tune of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M )

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829224 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:15:23 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829224 Barry Meislin:

Why choose? Why not a combo?

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829222 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:04:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829222 It begins.
(Why waste any time?)

“Zohran Mamdani ally Linda Sarsour, NYC DSA pol threaten to root out pro-Israel ‘corporate Democrats’”—
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/zohran-mamdani-ally-linda-sarsour-nyc-dsas-alexa-aviles-go-after-pro-israel-corporate-democrats/

Will Sadiq Khan’s London be the template?
Brandon Johnson’s Chicago?
Toronto’s Olivia Chow?
(There’s a whole slough of models out there to choose from…)

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829217 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:38:10 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829217 Related?

“Does The Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/does-democrats-chaos-strategy-work

+ Bonus:

The atavistic, effectively paranoid tribalism at the hysterical—delusional—heart of progressive, Marxist cross-sectionality…

“Mamdani Announces All-Female Transition Team, Including Lina Khan”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mamdani-announces-all-female-transition-team-including-lina-khan

File under: Mean progs.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829206 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:13:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829206 Re: Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall

Mac:

When I got around to reading Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” after the (brilliant) tv series, I was astonished at how underrated Waugh was as a writer. Probably because he was a conservative.

Just one perfect sentence after another … like Joyce and Hemingway.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829205 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:12:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829205 People sympathize with actual criminals and then pretend ordinary people going about their business are the true criminals.
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Bad causes attract bad people, BTW.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829204 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:11:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829204 How can this be legal? Is this real? or is it fake news?
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New York has a scrum of minor parties and there’s no bar to circulating supplementary petitions among non-partisan registrants. Those working in the minor parties commonly cross-endorse major party candidates.
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There’s quite a raft of amendments one could make to New York election law to improve matters, but the legislature seldom does anything salutary. (I used to carry petitions in New York back in the day).

]]> By: charles https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/05/the-mamdani-victory-in-new-york-city/#comment-2829200 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:00:43 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145259#comment-2829200 This is behind a paywall for the New York Times which I do not have access to; but, if this is true it may have played some part in the outcome of the election – here is the link.
This sample ballot shows Mamdani and Sliwa being in two places on the ballot while Cuomo is only listed once.
How can this be legal? Is this real? or is it fake news?
Are there any readers here who vote in New York City and can tell us what the ballot actually looked like?

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