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Michael Goodwin: Kathy Hochul will never satisfy Mamdani’s far-left crew — and yet she keeps appeasing them

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The political threats aimed at Gov. Hochul by mad-dog leftists are almost enough to make you feel sorry for her. Almost.

The hitch is that Hochul has only herself to blame. She ignored the warning not to feed the alligators.

Instead, she foolishly assumed Mayor Mamdani and his ravenous crew of radicals would be satisfied when she gave them billions of taxpayer dollars for their Socialist agenda.

Chomp, chomp, but that only whetted the alligators’ appetite for more, and now the governor is on the menu.

“She knows we’re coming for her,” declared a boastful Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the city wing of the Democratic Socialists of America.

A comrade who runs the DSA political team, Osman Chaudhary, even claimed that “we have a Democratic Socialist mandate in New York City.”

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After Tuesday’s results, he might have a point. Although turnout was abysmally low in most areas, DSA candidates were superbly organized and emerged undefeated in a select group of congressional and legislative primaries against incumbent Democrats.

With zero chance that a Republican will win a general election race in those districts, November will usher in a new wave of radicals for Congress and the state Legislature.

In effect, the political battleground is being........

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