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Mamdani Isn’t The Problem, It’s Immigration

The chances of Mamdani becoming a congressman or senator are slim based on history. Immigration is the far greater threat.

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Meghan McCain warned Republicans to take New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seriously, calling him a “generational talent” and likening him to former President Barack Obama. It’s similar to a warning made by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who predicted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., will “run for president, and Zohran Mamdani will replace Chuck Schumer in the Senate.”

Mamdani is surely a smooth talker and competent organizer — both things that helped him win the mayoral race and similarly helped Obama ascend to the presidency. But a “generational talent”?

The New York City mayoral office is notoriously a political graveyard. Mayors thought to be rising stars of the Democrat Party never ascend past that office (just ask Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio), and while possible, it would certainly be an anomaly if Mamdani proved to be the exception.

That said, conservatives still face a serious problem — it’s just not the threat Cruz and McCain are warning against.

The real danger is an immigration system that has imported millions of new residents and aspiring leaders (like Mamdani) who seek to fundamentally destroy the republic and replace it with the same kind of failed ideologies found in the very places these immigrants fled.

Mamdani is example No. 1: a Ugandan-born socialist whose politics are fundamentally hostile to and incompatible with the republic. An October survey from Patriot Polling showed just how necessary New York’s foreign-born population was to Mamdani’s winning coalition. The poll found he led among foreign-born New York residents with 62 percent support compared with just 31 percent of American-born support. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa had 40 percent and 25 percent support, respectively, among native-born........

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