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The Red Mask Slips: How New York City Just Elected Communism by Another Name
The American political left has spent the better part of the last decade engaged in a tedious, semantic shell game designed to gaslight the voting public. They have tied themselves in knots trying to distinguish between “socialism” and “democratic socialism,” insisting that the latter is a benign, Scandinavian-style safety net that has nothing to do with the authoritarian nightmares of the twentieth century. They scolded anyone who dared to use the “C-word”—communism—dismissing them as paranoid relics of the Cold War. But in New York City, the pretense has finally evaporated. With the rise of Mayor Mandani and his administration, the debate is effectively over. We are no longer speculating about slippery slopes; we have arrived at the bottom of the ravine. As even liberal stalwarts like Bill Maher are now forced to admit, we are not dealing with “democratic socialists.” We are dealing with straight-up communists who are no longer bothering to hide their agenda.
The media, naturally, is doing everything in its power to obscure this reality. They have constructed a “blue sky bubble” where inconvenient truths are filtered out before they can reach the eyes of the average voter. But the reality of Mandani’s administration can be found in the personnel he chooses to empower. Enter Sia Weaver, a name that the liberal algorithms have frantically tried to bury. Weaver is not some low-level intern fetching coffee; she has been appointed as the Chief of the Office to Protect Tenants. In a city where real estate and housing are the lifeblood of the economy, this is one of the most powerful positions imaginable. And what does the person holding the keys to New York’s housing market believe? She does not believe in market reform. She does not believe in rent stabilization. She believes in the total dismantling of private property rights.
Weaver has been caught on record making statements that would be laughable if they weren’t being spoken by a government official with the power to ruin lives. She has explicitly stated, “If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property, it’s over.” Let that sink in. The “sacred right” of the state to take what belongs to you. This is not the language of a reformer; it is the language of a revolutionary tribunal. She has gone further, declaring that “home ownership is racist” and that private property is a “weapon of white supremacy.” It is a claim so detach from reality that it ignores the twenty million Black Americans who own their own homes. Are they also agents of white supremacy? In the warped logic of the modern left, apparently so. To Weaver and her ilk, the very act of owning something, of building equity and stability for one’s family, is an act of oppression that must be eradicated by the state.
These are not the musings of a naive college student, though they certainly sound like it. Bill Maher correctly identified the specific strain of brain rot at play here. This is the kind of “privilege hating” that you can only learn at an elite institution for ninety-five thousand dollars a year. It is a luxury belief system, born in the seminar rooms of places like Bryn Mawr or Vassar, where wealthy co-eds cosplay as revolutionaries before graduating to six-figure jobs in the non-profit industrial complex. For most people, the “communist phase” is like a “goth phase”—an embarrassing affectation that vanishes once you enter the real world and have to pay taxes. But for the true believers like Weaver, the communism lasts a lifetime. They never grow out of it because they never actually leave the bubble. They simply move from the campus to the government, bringing their toxic ideology with them.
The appointment of such a radical to a key position reveals everything we need to know about Mayor Mandani. A mayor is defined by the people he surrounds himself with. If you appoint a person who screams “Elect more communists” to a position of power, you are endorsing that worldview. You cannot claim to be a moderate or a pragmatist while handing the keys to the city to people who fundamentally reject the concept of private ownership. Mandani knows exactly what Weaver is. He knows her history. He knows her rhetoric. And he hired her anyway. This suggests that the “democratic socialist” label he ran on was nothing more than a Trojan horse, a comforting brand designed to smuggle genuine Marxism past a sleeping electorate.
This is the “endgame” that conservatives have been warning about for years. When figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders first started popularizing the term “democratic socialist,” skeptics warned that the “democratic” part was just an adjective they would eventually drop. It was a soft landing, a way to acclimate the American public to the idea of state control without triggering the immediate revulsion associated with the Soviet Union or Maoist China. We were told we were slippery-slope fallacy alarmists. Yet here we are, less than a decade later, and the mask is fully off. The “socialist” label was just the legal way of ushering in communism. Now, they are saying the quiet part out loud: “Elect more communists.” They are not hiding it because they no longer fear the consequences. They believe they have successfully demoralized the opposition and captured enough institutions that they can simply declare their intentions openly.
Even Bill Maher, a man who has spent his career attacking the right, looks at this spectacle with horror. He realizes that this is not his party anymore. He understands that you cannot have a functioning society, let alone a thriving financial capital like New York, run by people who view private property as theft. Maher’s plea to his fellow liberals is desperate: if you continue to deny this reality, if you pretend that these people are just “going through a phase,” you will lose everything. You cannot gaslight people when their cities are crumbling. You cannot tell people that “home ownership is racist” and expect them to vote for you. At some point, the rubber meets the road, and the ideology of theft masquerading as justice reveals its true, ugly face.
The tragedy is that the people who will suffer the most are not the elites who attend the ninety-five thousand dollar a year colleges. The elites will always have an escape hatch. They will move to Florida or Texas when the taxes become confiscatory and the crime becomes unbearable. The people who will pay the price are the everyday New Yorkers—the shopkeepers, the workers, the families trying to build a life in a city that has decided their success is a crime. They are the ones who will be left behind as the “warmth of collectivism” turns into the cold reality of urban decay. New York City is about to become a laboratory for a failed nineteenth-century ideology, resurrected by trust-fund radicals who have never built anything in their lives.
The warning has been issued. The evidence is public. The Mayor is not a reformer; he is an ideologue. His appointees are not public servants; they are revolutionaries. The “Democratic Socialist” experiment was always a lie. It was always leading here, to a place where the government claims a “sacred right” to seize what is yours. New York, you were warned. You elected the wolf because he wore a sheep’s costume, but the costume has fallen off. Now you have to live with the teeth.
