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Mamdani DSA aid’s petulant airline Tweets show us what champagne socialists are really made of

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14.02.2026

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Mamdani DSA aid’s petulant airline Tweets show us what champagne socialists are really made of

To understand the champagne part of a what a champagne socialist is, look no further than Mamdani’s advance man Mathis E. Roy Vigne — and his elitist dispatches from the sky lounge.

This week, Washington Free Beacon’s Jon Levine dug up a series of strongly worded tweets from Vigne complaining about his subpar airline experiences.

Vigne, you see, likes a fine whine.

The posts are entitled, sneering and sound like a monologue written for a rich dick villain in an 80s movie.

The tweets might as well be wearing a cravat and smoking jacket.

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Most importantly, they show the mentality of a person who is completely detached from the day-to-day reality of the people his party claims to represent: the working class. In fact, the overarching theme is contempt for folks who do honest work.

It’s staggering hypocrisy.

To set the scene, understand that Vigne, who attended Columbia, has many international bank accounts. We know, because in 2020 he........

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