Socialists Paint New York Red. Big Winner Says: Forgot My Napkins So I’ll Wipe My Dirty Hands on American Flag. Scott Bessent: Hamilton! Freddy Hearts U.S. Sad Guthrie Update. More
New York, New York: It’s Mamdani’s town.
A “socialist earthquake” in New York has left “Democrats reeling” as Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s three chosen candidates swept to victories last night in New York’s Democratic primaries:
Progressive allies of Zohran Mamdani swept through New York’s primaries Tuesday, handing defeats to mainstream Democrats in deep-blue congressional districts and boosting the New York City mayor’s standing as a kingmaker in the party.
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander ousted incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a race that centered on Israel and the war in Gaza. State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Democratic candidates endorsed by establishment leaders. …
All of the candidates endorsed by Mamdani have called for the dismantling of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and want additional housing and other measures to make life affordable for working families. They are also highly critical of the Israeli government and the war in Gaza.
One of the Mamdani Three, Darializa Avila Chevalier, whose defeat of Rep. Adriano Espaillat practically assures a win in November, has a history of virulently anti-America rhetoric, having called the United States “a f—–g disgrace”:
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is a community organizer who studied at Columbia University where she was known for leftist agitation and her membership in a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest that would later post “Death to America” on its social media.
Avila Chevalier, who positioned herself further to the left than powerful progressives including former Vice President Kamala Harris, has faced scrutiny for her stance on private property, police, borders and calls to nationalize large swaths of the private sector in now-deleted posts from 2018 to 2022.
“I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she reportedly said.
Last night was a win or the radical, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party. The New York Post dubs it the “Hate Slate.” The Free Press’s Peter Savodnik and Olivia Reingold:
On Tuesday, radical House candidates won big in the city. ‘It doesn’t feel safe to be Jewish anymore.’
Townhall’s Matt Vespa has the tweets. Here’s one from David Marcus:
Decades of black and Hispanic political power in New York City were just seized by Muslim Marxists.
Dream Dies. In other New York election news, National Review’s Jeffrey Behar notes that “Alas, there will be no Kennedy resurgence in the Democratic Party,” as JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg lost his bid for Jerry Nadler’s old seat. Also looser: Anti-Trumper George Conway, in the same silk-stocking district. AOC’s win was never in doubt.
Alan Wilson, boosted by last-minute Trump endorsement (he also endorsed the other candidate), win the GOP primary for Governor of South Carolina.
Here’s something that’s not going to be popular with New York’s new Socialist leaders: A Federal appeals court yesterday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track deportations for illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, alleged Antifa members received decades-long prison sentences from a federal Judge in Texas for violent anti-ICE protests. Several received sentences as long as 100 years. Even with probation ….
I don’t believe this: Iran is trying to promote the incredible idea that ordinary women, without their headscarves, are taking to the streets on their own initiative to rally for the regime. But I do believe this: More of Iran’s brave women are taking the risk of ignoring the regimes hijab rules. The ink on the Iran deal wasn’t even dry on the deal before the regime ordered 74 lashes for this female singer.
Many Israeli leaders are hopping mad at President Trump for the way the Jewish state was treated in the Iran deal. There is also widespread consternation about Iran’s alleged scourge of “jellyfish” drones:
The unsettling swarm of drones that a downed US pilot in Iran said moved in a bizarre “jellyfish-like” formation indicates the Iranian regime has devoted significant resources to beefing up its drone program — so it can counter the conventional battlefield tech of its rivals.
“They are adapting faster than us,” Brett Velicovich, drone expert and founder of Powerus, told The Post.
“Iran has spent years developing capabilities designed to offset the overwhelmingly conventional advantages of the United States and its allies.”
President Trump “took bold actions other Presidents never dared,” write Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh in the Wall Street Journal, but Iran has plans to consolidate its power.
Forget the Song and Dance. Unlike the cast of Lin Manuel Miranda play about Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doesn’t sing and dance about the Founding Father. But I’d be more inclined to take seriously Bessent’s WSJ piece headlined “Hamilton Inspires Trump’s Economic Statecraft:”
First, economic security begins with national capacity. We have rediscovered at great cost what Alexander Hamilton taught us: that every nation “ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply.” Our strength is derived from what we can build, for the nation that can’t produce what it needs isn’t truly secure. The nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs isn’t truly sovereign. And the nation that reduces its economics to consumption isn’t truly prosperous.
As Hamilton put it, we must enlarge “the sphere of our domestic commerce.” Economic security begins with the capacity to build, invent, finance and scale the industries that will define the next century, among them semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, shipbuilding, critical minerals and pharmaceuticals. More than economic sectors, these are sources of national power. The U.S. must lead in all of them.
Ms. Must mentioned yesterday the education miracle New Orleans pulled off by going all charter schools. We’ll have none of that success stuff, say teachers’ unions honchos Randi Weingarten and Becky Pringle. An editorial at the WSJ:
On Tuesday the heads of the nation’s two largest teachers unions delivered their marching orders to the country’s 24 Democratic Governors: Don’t opt into the new federal tax-credit scholarship program, or suffer their political wrath….
Money has been pouring into public schools for decades even as student learning falls. Schools hire more staff to pad union ranks, but students who graduate often can’t read or do middle-school math. Many states and cities also have “hold harmless” policies that keep schools funded as students leave. See New York City, which is spending $290 million to make sure schools don’t lose money next year even as they lose tens of thousands of students.
We’re Sorry We Killed Your Mom. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie spoke about her family’s “agony” over her mother’s disappearance and shared information about a “chilling ransom note. The apparent abductors said that Mrs. Guthrie died in their care but it was an accident and they are sorry.
For He Knows His Time Is Short. Controversial Acting DNI chief Bill Pulte already has indulged in a firing spree. It’s always good to keep busy, even if you’re a temp, no?
Somebody Forgot to Tell Him We’re Fascists. Nicole Russell, whose work usually appears in USA TODAY, takes to Human Events to write about the German soccer fan who is showing us what loving America is all about:
Just a few weeks shy of America’s 250th birthday, I’d hoped to see a surge of patriotism among Americans nationwide and in Texas where I live, I have. But I’ve also been delighted to see it from another surprising source: Europeans tourists.
There’s a German soccer fan who’s caught the country’s attention and whose patriotism and excitement for all things Americana has warmed my heart. His wide-eyed fervor for America provides a lesson for all of us, a we inch closer to July 4.
“Freddy,” posting as @FreddyLA7 on X, came to the U.S. to follow Germany’s World Cup progress, but his account quickly went viral for the enthusiasm he’s shown for America’s sights, sounds, scenes and food. And he’s not the only one. Frenchmen, Englishmen, and others have been sharing their love of this country after finding themselves in various World Cup locations.
Minimum Wage Fail. John Stossel notices:
Lots of people like gig work. It’s flexible. You work when you want to work.
But “workers’ rights” activists and governing socialists don’t like that. Gig workers rarely join unions. They don’t get a minimum wage.
“Uber and Lyft exploit their workers” is a headline at MS NOW. “We can’t ignore it.”
The Democratic Socialists said they had a solution. Seattle’s city council imposed a $26 delivery driver minimum wage.
What could go wrong?
