State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani during an primary night gathering in Queens; the Democrat won his party's nomination for mayor of New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

If U.S. Reps. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia or Nancy Mace of South Carolina want to criticize New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani for his policy proposals — anything from taxing New York City’s wealthiest residents to his hopes to expand the five boroughs' trash containerization rules — they should go for it. Politics is the democratic arena where ideas do battle, and in the immortal words of the fictional pundit Mr. Dooley, it ain’t beanbag.

But if these Republican members of Congress want to launch Islamophobic and/or anti-immigrant attacks on Mr. Mamdani or any other political opponent, they should be rebuked — both within the chamber where they serve and among the general populace.

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