Vance shows how to beat, and how to be beaten by, the Mamdani Democrats

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Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering indictment of the Democrats’ New York City mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, earlier this month. Speaking at Claremont Institute, Vance reflected on the Democratic Party‘s 2025 state, noting its apparent sprint leftward despite last November’s drubbing.

Mamdani, a millennial socialist, embodies the party’s spiral into faculty lounge extremism. He quotes Karl Marx verbatim: In 2020, he tweeted, “Each according to their need, each according to their ability.” In a 2021 interview, he cited “seizing the means of production” as an “end goal.” He advocates defunding the police and balks at American exceptionalism.

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