Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first to commodify that scorn and sell it back to the public.

“New York’s history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression,” read the document that outlines Mamdani’s “preliminary citywide racial equity plan.” The mayor’s chief equity officer, the “racial justice strategist” Afua Atta-Mensah, explained that the “plan was born from when New Yorkers were in the streets calling for justice.” By that, she presumably means the riotous mania that overtook the United States ...

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