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Mamdani’s hardcore left fans turning on him over Israel, trans rights and his ‘AOC-ification’
The radical left is so extreme, avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani is not revolutionary enough for them.
The New York City mayor has been heckled at Gracie Mansion, shouted down at events and slandered — not by people from the right, but those on his own side.
He’s also been accused, somewhat confusingly, of being pro-Israel and of not doing enough for trans people. Socialist congressional candidates have even taken to using him as a bogeyman to promote their even more radical agendas.
It’s barely been 100 days since Mamdani was sworn into office, and already he is losing the left. As Jacques Mallet du Pan observed of the French Revolution in 1793: “The revolution devours its children.”
Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council Member running for the House of Representatives, has contrasted herself with Mamdani as a campaign tactic, assuring voters that she will be even more radical.
“The AOC-ification of Mamdani has taken place at lightning speed,” she wrote on X in February, deriding Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who she sees as a socialist sellout.
“There is only one way to break with this endless cycle of disappointment and betrayals from so-called ‘progressive’ and ‘socialist’ Democrats: breaking with both bloodstained parties of war and genocide.”
“The ‘AOCification of Zohran Mamdani’ is a phrase that’s going to live in my brain rent free,” a Bluesky user chimed in.
Sawant has also circulated a video of a member of the activist group Workers Strike Back accusing Mamdani of delivering “a mind-boggling list of betrayals,” including endorsing Kathy Hochul in the New York City governor’s race.
Meanwhile, Christian Smalls, workers rights activist and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union, warned on X: “Zohran is going to break ppls heart way more then AOC [sic].”
“He plays the fence so well [that] one day he can sound like a leader of resistance the next a shill for Israel,” he wrote in a March X post. “He’s nothing but another career politician Democrat.........