Dems' embrace of far-left radicals: Letters to the Editor — July 4, 2025
With their proclivity to never learn from past disasters, the radical Democrats have again demonstrated the definition of insanity by voting for Zohran Mamdani ('Dem Party died as it lived: with fear & hate,' Sasha Stone, July 2).
The term 'Democratic socialist' is perhaps the most glaring oxymoron in political history. and this purportedly educated mob continuously displays their baneful ignorance, obviously having missed the history classes showing that socialism has been a failure.
A death knell has been sounded; New York City has one more chance to save itself from perdition in November.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
Is one Democratic voice brave enough to confront bigotry and urge condemnation rather than offer congratulations?
Decency must overwhelm practical politics, and a candidate such as Mamdani must be actively opposed.
Haters of any particular religion, race or gender orientation have not yet learned what it is to be American — let alone the mayor of the greatest city.
Matthew Brief
Manhattan
As a self-declared socialist, Mamdani should not have been allowed to run in a Democratic primary.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Mamdani and their ilk don't have the guts or intellectual honesty to sever their connections with the Dems.
Democrats welcomed the Trojan Horse, and now the party is a mélange of Hamas lovers, Fidel diehards and gender fantasists.
David Rabinovitz
Brooklyn
How are real New Yorkers actually voting for Zohran Mamdani?
He is an angry socialist and nearly a communist who hates the nation that provides him with the right to speak freely and to run for and hold higher office.
Try that in your backward socialist countries, Zohran.
God help New York City.
Richard Melnick
Queens
Picture a world in which Gotham's Marxist gnomes Zohran Mamdani and his mentor AOC became, respectively, the mayor of New York City and the junior US Senator from New York.
That would be a dystopian socialist nightmare.
Admittedly, these two Lilliputian demagogues have mastered the social media game.
But dare I say that their unstated message that communism is the wave of the future doesn't sit well with normal Americans.
James Hyland
Queens
There is panic in the streets that socialism could be coming to New York City, and then spreading.
But the United States is already halfway there, with public housing, public health care, public schooling, food stamps and so much available paid for by someone else.
What is coming to New York City is communism.
Socialism won't cause the awful shortages, but communism certainly will.
Angela Lennox-Kay
Hackettstown, NJ
New York City voters had better wake up, get out and vote in November.
They cannot allow this antisemite, socialist candidate to be elected; he simply has to be stopped.
Just think of the probabilities should Mamdani be elected as mayor of New York City.
It will be the end of the city we all know and love.
Dick Mills
Franklin Lakes, NJ
At what point do American values supersede politics?
Antisemitism, putting Israel in peril, promoting class warfare and substituting communism for capitalism threaten the very survival of New York City.
Just how much faith should be given to Zohran Mamdani?
Is this a prank or subterfuge?
As people say: Only in New York.
Joel Glazer
Elizabeth, NJ
Just when I thought New Yorkers couldn't elect any more anti-American people like AOC and Chuck Schumer, another affront to humanity named Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral primary.
If you rearrange the letters in his name, it tells you who he is: 'I, madman.'
What he is saying and doing should tell you all you need to know.
Gregory Topliff
Aiken, SC
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