Americans haven’t been in control of New York City for a long time. Once you start letting immigrants run things, you can’t be surprised when the process continues considerably further than you’d originally imagined and declared would be just fine:
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as New York City’s 110th mayor, the first Muslim and African-born person of Indian descent to hold the position. The 34‑year‑old took his midnight oath on a centuries-old Quran in a long‑closed subway station beneath City Hall on Thursday.
At a public inauguration speech outside City Hall later in the day, Mamdani leaned heavily into his democratic socialist ideology, vowing to “govern expansively and audaciously.”
“My fellow New Yorkers – today begins a new era!” he declared in a nearly 25‑minute address before a crowd of about 4,000 people. I was elected as a Democratic socialist and I will govern as a Democratic socialist,” he said. “I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”
It doesn’t really matter at this point. New York was lost in the early 20th century, it was just disguised by the redefinition of “American” under the immigrants’ civic nationalist propaganda. All of the various political moves now are just laying the stage for the shape of the eventual breakup.
What does Mamdani have to offer, and how can he represent heritage Americans in any way when he stands against everything that they stand for? He can’t, of course, nor does he wish to do so. Which is why dissolution is now not only inevitable, but obvious.
It’s the gates of Toledo redux.