New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is weaponizing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the U.S. Constitution and fundamental fairness.

If you're not a landlord, you may think this doesn't affect you — but think again.

Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in this socialist mayor's crosshairs.

He ignores the limits of government power and his duty to govern for all the people.

As evidence of the danger ahead, see Mamdani's new Office of Worker Power, announced on Labor Day.

It's a first-in-the-nation municipal initiative to push unionization on private-sector workers — and to launch labor-law investigations of nonunionized workplaces, whether there have been complaints or not.

Businesses large and small should take a close look at the mayor's anti-landlord actions — because they're next.

Mamdani unveiled his Block by Block housing initiative on May 26, calling it a "sweeping blueprint to tackle New York City's deepening housing crisis."

But most of the "plan" called for hyperaggressive code enforcement against "negligent" property owners.

Weeks later, Hizzoner and his newly created Office of Mass Engagement — his taxpayer-funded $53 million staff of information ministers — launched his "Talk to the Tenants" campaign, sending armies of Democratic Socialists of........

© Townhall