That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population — see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly.

Which means that if the citizens of New York City vote in Zohran Mamdani as their mayor come November, and things go badly, then Gotham really can’t ask for our sympathy. That Democrats voted him as their candidate in the primary on June 24 is one thing, but if voters of all parties ratify that decision on Election Day, that’s another.

Then it’s Pottery Barn rules: If you break it, you own it. Sure, it’s only natural to spare an initial thought for our compatriots from the Bronx to Staten Island if things go south, but after that, sit back and get the popcorn. I plan to do so wearing my threadbare Yankee cap.

Let’s see what communism does to a major, modern metropolis — the world’s financial center, no less.

If it’s really as good as its wild-eyed evangelizers say — and they are wild-eyed, if you’ve ever seen one up close — then people from the rest of the Empire State and the other 49 states will be flocking into the city.

The history of communism, everywhere else it has been tried, says the contrary. People will do anything within their power to escape its clutches. Communist states have had to throw up barbed wire fences, and in the case of Berlin, a wall, to keep desperate citizens from fleeing.

God in His........

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