One week into the mayoralty of Zohran Mamdani, there is already a political crisis. Yesterday, Cea Weaver, his pick to lead the revived Office to Protect Tenants, was on the front page of the New York Post and making international headlines; the Daily Mail, along with the Post, has been camped outside her Crown Heights apartment, photographing her in distress. She was caught — and mocked — for tearing up. At issue are deleted tweets and posts from the 2010s that called home ownership a “weapon of white supremacy” and another that declared, simply, “Seize private property!” Other posts said private property should be treated as a “collective good” and that it was important to “impoverish the *white* middle class.” The Trump Justice Department and Washington Post editorial board both condemned the posts, and Mamdani’s critics have reacted with both horror and thinly disguised glee: Here is the first domino that may fall against the 34-year-old democratic-socialist mayor.

Mamdani, during his transition period, already forced one top aide to quit after old tweets surfaced that were plainly antisemitic. Weaver did not attack Jews, but her posts could be deemed radical enough, in theory, for Mamdani to oust her. It didn’t help, as the tabloids revealed, that Weaver’s........

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