Neither Marxism nor Investment Bans Will Make Housing Great Again |
As bone-chilling winds lash Manhattan, Gotham Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vaunted “warmth of collectivism” sounds almost appealing.
Almost.
The lightest breeze of socialism shows why this worldview frosts normal people. Too bad related ideas have drifted into the Trump administration, as it seeks “affordability” in housing.
Mamdani’s tenant tsarina Cea Weaver, 37, took office on New Year’s Day and instantly sank into scandal.
The Democratic Socialists of America member and pro-communist housing activist has been highly outspoken on social media and in internet videos. She tried unsuccessfully to cover her Marxist-Leninist tracks by deleting revolutionary tirades that she posted, not as a freshman at Bryn Mawr, her alma mater, but as an allegedly grown woman.
Fortunately, enterprising journalists excavated dozens of Weaver’s outbursts and shared them with increasingly shocked New Yorkers.
As Michelle Tandler reported, Weaver declared that home ownership is “a weapon of white supremacy” and government should “impoverish the *white* middle class.”
UnHerd’s Sohrab Ahmari learned that Weaver expressed on Jan. 9, 2017, via Facebook: “If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property, IT’S OVER.” That Nov. 12, Weaver explained that “Moving to a gentrifying neighborhood is structural racism,” “Moving to the suburbs is structural racism,” and “The inner city/suburb distinction is itself the dark heart of structural racism in the US today and there is no escape.” For good measure, Weaver noted: “Property is theft.”
Weaver’s 2021 interview with Reason TV bobbed to the surface.
“I believe that anybody who needs housing should get it,” Weaver chirped. “It just means that if you can’t afford it, you should be able to get it anyway.” This would be “financed by the government.”
Reason TV’s host wondered, “Whenever anyone’s not paying their rent, the government........