I feel sorry for the millions of hard-working residents of New York City who rang in 2026 with the inauguration of a socialist mayor.

“Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his midnight oath of office on a centuries-old Quran … underscoring a series of historic firsts for the city…in a long-closed subway station beneath City Hall,” PBS breathlessly reported.

PBS lauds Mamdani’s immutable traits, “the first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born person” as “historic firsts for the city” while ignoring the much bigger and more relevant “historic first for the city,” which is the fact that Zohran Mamdani is the first socialist mayor of New York City.

The mainstream media, like PBS, portray Mamdani as a progressive pragmatist whose policies will address the acute affordability crisis in the Big Apple; however, this is propaganda and misinformation.

After his underground ceremony, Mamdani emerged to take center stage with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at his official inauguration before the public, where he was sworn in by longtime socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders........

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