While no one should be stunned that New York City voters elected self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani, it doesn’t make the outcome any less disappointing. The city has seen its fair share of both decent and disastrous mayors over the years, but it feels like this guy might just take the cake—and he hasn’t even taken office yet.

New York City is about to be represented by a man who believes that too many crimes are labeled as violent, so much so that he’s argued violence is an 'artificial construct,' and that it’s actually the district attorneys enforcing the law who are the truly violent ones.

None of that really makes sense and just goes to show that he seems to care way more about people who commit crimes than about the victims of those crimes.

How deranged does someone have to be to try to soften crimes like burglary? These aren’t 'victimless' crimes, and the fact that this is an issue he’s so passionate about is honestly absurd.

If anything, the city has an underprosecution problem.

According to the Heritage Foundation:

Lawlessness ran rampant in Gotham City because police and prosecutors couldn’t—or wouldn’t—hold criminals accountable.

Bragg’s key principles—driven, he writes, in large part by the experiences he had growing up in Harlem in the 1980s—are virtually identical with those of other Soros-backed district attorneys:

This inculdes "Investing more in diversion and alternatives to incarceration," "Reducing pretrial incarceration," "Focusing on accountability, not sentence length," "Limiting youth being prosecuted in adult court," and "Actively supporting those reentering society (which sounds good, but in practice means, among other things, seeking little to no probation or post-conviction supervision for offenders)."

In other words, city officials have neglected public safety for far too long, and now the man stepping into one of the city’s most powerful positions seems no different. Somehow, I have a feeling this won’t end well.

New York City has no shortage of real problems, and relabeling crimes definitely isn’t one of them. But according to Mamdani, this is somehow a top priority, for reasons that are anything but moral. And to say voters shot themselves in the foot with this one would be an understatement.

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