Michael Goodwin: NYC is in grave danger with Mayor Mamdani’s anti-policing policies |
The late Colin Powell, in an interview about the difference between governing and campaigning, invoked his long experience and humor to describe it this way: “I think any human being with an IQ over 40, who is a mammal, loves governing more than campaigning.”
It’s a shame that Powell, a top military leader and a secretary of state who died in 2021, isn’t available to counsel Zohran Mamdani.
If he were, perhaps he could get through to New York’s new mayor, who appears to be so in love with campaigning that he can’t kick the habit.
How else to explain Mamdani’s grating tendency to speak in ways that appeal only to his base of far-leftist supporters?
Though he’s been in office less than two weeks, his Socialist-echoing choices of words and topics are early warning signs of trouble ahead.
The 34-year-old mayor was in clear campaign mode last week when he parroted the radical mob condemning events in Minnesota and used the most loaded language possible.
“This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis — only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty,” Mamdani said in a statement on X.
“As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.”
The stew of anti-ICE bile, the use of the inflammatory word “murder” and his habit of erasing the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants are all standard fare among far-left wackos.
Such fact-free remarks would not carry much weight if Mamdani were still a junior legislator in Albany, where nobody cares what newbies say.
But he is now the mayor of America’s largest city, giving far greater significance to all his words.
And because the vast majority of 8.5 million New Yorkers did not vote for him, it’s time he starts to........