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After 24 years of pain from the worst terrorist attack perpetrated by Islamic radicalism on September 11, 2001, the city of New York is left at the mercy of Zohran Mamdani, a radical and communist Muslim.
The recent local elections in several states, and for the governorship in Virginia and New Jersey (the former, a swing state, and the latter, traditionally Democratic), offered no surprises—much less a blue wave or a barometer for the legislative elections in November 2026, as some left-leaning media outlets and digital platforms have suggested.
After 24 years of pain from the worst terrorist attack perpetrated by Islamic radicalism on September 11, 2001, with a toll of more than 3,000 innocent civilians killed and hundreds more wounded, the city of New York will be governed by Zohran Mamdani, a radical Muslim, socialist, with no professional résumé and pro-Hamas (terrorists).
With no university studies, zero business experience, zero political experience, a rap music producer and a foreclosure prevention counselor, the member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) will direct (or attempt to direct) one of the most emblematic and powerful cities not only in the U.S., but in the world.
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Despite the impact felt among tens of millions of Americans throughout the country, Mamdani’s victory was also expected, after a large propaganda machine and well-funded effort behind his nomination in the primaries.
No evidence has yet been presented, but it is highly likely that the dark power networks of the U.S. left are behind his “victory.”
The newly elected mayor of New York announced in his first press conference the formation of a transition team composed only of women, former local and federal officials.
#DIRECTO | Rueda de prensa de Zohran Mamdani tras ser elegido alcalde de Nueva York https://t.co/wTFdbKDC1e
— ABC.es (@abc_es) November 5, 2025
What these elections did confirm is that the left is becoming increasingly radical, and it is no longer solely about the fate of the country, but about a confrontation between the proliferation of anti-American ideological trends and Western American capitalism.
Born in Uganda, of Indian descent, and with only seven years since becoming a U.S. citizen, the unknown Mamdani has the support of socialist-left figures such as Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as Hillary Clinton, George Soros and his son Alexander Soros, among others.
Son of Mahmood Mamdani, an Indian-Ugandan academic of Shiite Gujarati descent, and Mira Nair, an Indian-American filmmaker of Punjabi Hindu origin, Zohran arrived in New York after a brief stay in Cape Town (South Africa).
His background, shaped by his identity as a Muslim immigrant and his adherence to communism, has made him an “attractive” figure for sympathizers and beneficiaries of [lifetime subsidies] and of 21st-century socialism or Marxist anarchy.
The Main Course
Mamdani, the main course and most controversial figure in these elections, became the consecration of the plans of Islamic-communist radicalism in the U.S.
He sweetened ears with every possible lie: the socialist promises that three generations, reluctant to work and to produce goods for the true development of society, love to hear. They are mostly young people born after the terrorist attacks in New York and hispanic minorities in that city (mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans), who voted 80% against Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of the state, who had “too many things against him,” as President Donald J. Trump said in an interview during the American Business Forum in Miami.
In that same interview, the Republican leader stated that with the election of the communist and radical Muslim Zohran Mamdani, “the city of New York has lost its sovereignty,” and “many will flee to other states and cities like Miami.”
In Virginia, the new Democratic governor is Abigail Spanberger, while in New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill secured victory with 56.2% over Republican Jack Ciatarelli (43.2%).
In California, Proposition 50 to reform the electoral map —in favor of more Democratic seats in the U.S. Congress— received, as expected, the majority of votes.
Despite New York and California being Democratic strongholds, and Virginia and New Jersey fluctuating, Trump acknowledged that Republicans on the campaign trail failed to spread information and captivate voters with “everything we have done for the good of Americans and the country in just nine months, after receiving a pure disaster from the last four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Democrats are deeply offended by all the actions being taken in favor of electoral transparency in the United States. President Trump wants to leave zero margin for fraud and has launched an intense campaign in Congress so that, in all states, as required by the U.S. Constitution, only American citizens can vote, and people exercising this right are required to present a photo ID proving their status.
In New York, for example, voters are not required to do so, but this occurs in various states, mostly governed by Democrats, which calls the famous “electoral security” or “transparency” into question.
Penetration and Expansion of Islamism in the U.S.
The stance of maintaining the partial shutdown of the federal government under the Trump administration until the recent municipal elections in several Democratic states is not a coincidence; it is a political strategy to try to pull the Democratic Party out of the quagmire it finds itself in after an extensive list of electoral defeats and adverse rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, a deep leadership and credibility crisis, a globalist and extreme-left agenda, among other factors.
However, Mamdani’s arrival goes beyond a simple local election because of what he has revealed publicly and his conviction to expand Islam as a sacred mission, contrary to the designs of the Western world, seen from the Islamic perspective as an unacceptable enemy and offense.
Mamdani tries to divert attention—backed by major left-wing media outlets—from his promises and the capacity his administration will have to fulfill what he offered: almost everything for free and under strict local government control. But his true objective is to amplify radical Islamism and turn New York into a giant mosque; to “build” an operations base for Islamic penetration and expansion, as is now happening in the United Kingdom and many other European countries.
Trump has repeated that he will drastically reduce federal funds to New York, while a massive emigration of businesses and citizens to other conservative states is expected.
It is estimated that more than one million New Yorkers will leave the city after the Ugandan’s victory.
This is revealed by a JL Partners survey for the British newspaper Daily Mail, which describes a scenario of “historic demographic annihilation,” with an economic impact of enormous proportions, due to the political and economic platform of the former rapper Mamdani.
The poll indicates that 9% of New Yorkers “without any doubt” will leave the city of 8.5 million inhabitants. Another 25% (2.12 million) would “consider” leaving New York with the mayoralty in the hands of the radical Muslim.
Chaos
Mamdani has not yet taken a seat at New York City Hall, and chaos is already knocking at the door —and it is exactly what he expected and worked for: chaos, another major crisis for New York.
Isaac Toledano, a real estate developer and CEO of the Miami-based BH Group, told Fox News Digital that his company has, in recent months, closed contracts worth more than $100 million with buyers from New York, double the previous year.
These clients, many of them wealthy entrepreneurs, foresaw Mamdani’s victory and chose to leave the cosmopolitan city and move their companies.
Just like Barack Hussein Obama, who opened the doors to Islamism in local, state, and federal government positions, the unknown Muslim was very likely elevated by the power networks of elite left-wing shadow structures or the so-called Deep State, to exalt a “nobody” as the great Islamic “Democratic” champion.
Mamdani has called for radical cuts to New York police funding (although he later backed down), raising the already high taxes on the middle class and businesses, creating regulated markets, free transportation, free daycare, drastic rent controls, and other fictional “actions” as part of a socialist platform of “freebies.”
The movie of indiscriminate spending, the “festival” of subsidies, government control, skyrocketing taxes, rising crime and social disorder, is nothing new today. France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the state of California, and others governed by the extreme left are suffering it right now. The result is the same: failure and destruction.
New Yorkers, accustomed over the past two decades to government dependency, did not vote to save New York, but to sink it further into chaos, decay, and insecurity; or even worse, to fully open the doors to the enemy of the Western and American capitalist system: radical Islamism.
Leonardo Morales, Senior Fellow, MSI²
Originally published by the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute, a nonpartisan and conservative group of experts specializing in policy research, strategic intelligence, and consulting. The opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Institute. More information about the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute is available at www.miastrategicintel.com
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