Everything That’s Wrong With Zohran Mamdani’s Policy Platform

If elected, he could demonstrate to New Yorkers how ruinous socialist policies are

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as seen in a photo provided by his campaign. Photo credit: Kara McCurdy.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father, Mahmoud Mamdani, is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia. Mahmoud Mamdani has celebrated Arab violence against Israelis: “Palestinians have a right to resist. This is a colonial occupation, not a conflict!” Mahmoud Mamdani has also condemned Americans, referring to us in the third-person: “Americans have learned to see themselves as immigrants rather than settlers, which suits their sense of the American nation as a historic rupture from Europe rather than a European colonial outpost,” Mahmoud Mamdani wrote in his 2020 Harvard University Press book, “Neither Settler nor Native, The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.”

But rather than focusing on Mamdani’s father, who is outside Zohran’s control, let’s take Zohran Mamdani at his word, and focus on the policy. Zohran Mamdani has an elaborate 17-point policy platform. To judge by the polls, it seems to be seducing lots of New Yorkers. Let’s take a closer, detailed look.