Socialism is as American as apple pie

Predictable as the tides, self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s rise has brought out a range of bad to worse takes. Powerful Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have abandoned their “vote blue, no matter who” line, demurring on whether the youth-galvanizing Mamdani deserves their endorsement. Bill Maher frets that Gotham has never had a would-be mayor this “radical” and called Mamdani a “Marxist.” Meanwhile, many on the Right have characterized Mamdani almost as an invasive species, with the late Charlie Kirk going so far as to call him a “parasite.”