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The
Trinity of American Socialism – Father Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist;
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and gang, the second persona of the Trinity; and Mayor
of New York City in waiting Zohran Mamdani – it is intimated by a breathless,
neo-progressive Eastern Seaboard media, are together the new face of the born-again Democrat Party. Mamdani has been regarded by some as the indispensable
spirit completing the leftist Trinity.
The
new face of the Democrat Party in New York City recently met at the White House
with arch nemesis, President Donald Trump, who was cordial enough to forbear
calling Mamdani a communist.
There
is nothing strange in all this. Trump has met cordially with President of
Russian Vladimir Putin, a communist proto-Stalinist. Putin began his military
barrage of Ukraine by asserting that Ukraine was not even a country, and he has
been for years attempting to reduce the non-country, inoffensive to Russia, to
rubble. President Xi Jinping of China -- the general secretary of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC),
and thus the paramount leader of China -- though less murderous than Chairman
Mao, is still imposing on China’s Falun Gong a variant of cultural slavery.
Falun Gong practices self-cultivation through the principles of Truthfulness,
Compassion, and Forbearance, all of which are treasonous in Zi’s estimation. In
communist countries, no self-actualization, always regarded as traitorous to the
state, may be allowed.
Having
clasped hands and broken bread with Putin and Xi, it might have been awkward
had Trump not extended the same courtesy to Mamdani, who has yet to set up a
gulag in Brooklyn for plucked and plundered millionaires. Mamdani is young,
exuberant, a socialist utopianist to be sure, but one whose hands are not
crimson with blood.
In
his largely successful overpromised campaign – a kind of soap-opera version of
governing – Mamdani’s presence in Trump’s White House is yet another chapter in
what promises to be an endless campaign. One imagines Trump may have drawn
Mamdani away from the glare of the TV cameras and whispered in his ear, “Zoran,
this need not go any further, but just between us, you will soon see there is a
categorical difference between campaigning and governing. I hope that
difference does not unsettle you too much.”
Already,
according to the indispensable New York Post, the Big Apple’s priorities are
being arranged. The city’s town council is demanding raises for its members and
the governor as soon as Mamdani takes command on January 1: “The bill, if
approved, would give council members their first raise in nearly a decade and
swell their salary budget from $7.5 million to $8.8 million. They’d see their
salaries jump from $148,500 to $172,500.” If approved, the bill would increase their
salary budget from $7.5 million to $8.8 million.
Following
Mamdani’s meeting with Trump, New York Governor Kathy Hochul breathed a deep
sigh of relief. She told him, according to the New York Post, that “he needed
to ensure Trump had ‘confidence’ in his leadership to keep the president from
sending the National Guard into New York City.” Speaking of Mamdani, she said,
“He has already hit the ground running. I have the confidence in him that I
wanted the president to have as well: that we don’t need any interventions.”
Following
the White House meeting with Trump, Mamdani called Hochul to thank her for her
advice. She told the New York Post, “I thought he did everything he
needed to do to make sure the president has confidence in his leadership.”
Her
confidence in Mamdani no doubt is based on a workmanlike political supposition
that campaign posturing and governing are separate operations. More often than
not, the political position adopted by the winner of a campaign is a stern and
unforgiving teacher. It is the office, and not merely the audience to which a
politician addresses himself in a campaign – in Mamdani’s case, unswerving
socialists - that makes or breaks a politician. Politics is a collaborative
effort. Even hard-bitten socialists know that.
The
Democrat Party has long since moved lock stock and barrel from liberalism to
neo-progressivism, an admixture of social radicalism seasoned with a revamped
Marxism that replaces class interests with a wildly exaggerated oppressor verses
oppressed world view. Mamdani is its high priest in the nation’s Northeast
corridor. The liberal residue in the Democrat Party is hoping that he is, in
Hochul’s view, educable.
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