They’re Trying to Eliminate Landlords, Not Regulate Them

Slow-motion Communism;

Daniel Greenfield , Bio and Archives--July 20, 2026

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There are two types of people: those who understand the Left and those who don’t.

The latter are forever good-naturedly assuming that their opposite numbers simply don’t understand how the market works and don’t understand that the added burden of onerous regulations will raise prices, force companies out of the marketplace and make life worse.

Maoist style the plan is to eliminate landlords by driving as many of them out of the market as possible

The former realize that the Left understands this all too well and that’s why it’s doing it.

Since the conservative movement is still full of people who studied Locke and Adam Smith rather than Lenin,and Mao and can lecture about the ‘wisdom of the market’, but don’t have a clue about what makes leftists tick, New York City’s rent freeze and latest round of regulations, accompanied by sky-high average rents in the city, led to a round of “but don’t you see”.

The Left sees quite well what it’s doing. That’s why Mamdani appointed Cea Weaver (pictured above) as his Tenant Director and stood behind her after she had tweeted that “private property is a weapon of white supremacy”, “Impoverish the *white* middle class” and “we’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.”

The plan isn’t to ‘regulate’ landlords, in Maoist style the plan is to eliminate........

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