Explore the clash of ideologies as Mayor-elect Mamdani meets Trump amidst a national divide.
Mr. Mamdani Goes to Washington sounds like a really bad Frank Capra remake, but when Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visits the White House and meets Donald Trump for the very first time, it won’t just be a pair of New Yawkers tawkin’ over cawfee.
Instead, it’ll highlight the national divide that’s tearing America apart.
One man is in his 30s, the other in his 70s. One believes in capitalism; the other in collectivism. One is a Republican, the other a “Democratic Socialist.”
If opposites attract, Mamdani and Trump will get along famously.
But in high-level, smash-mouth U.S. politics, opposites don’t attract: They repel.
(Often violently.)
Because they kinda-sorta have to: Today’s Democratic Party defines itself via its opposition to Donald Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party. It’s not a party of ideas, but a party based on obstruction and opposition.
That’s its entire raison d’être.
The day the radical left sees its leader embrace “literally Hitler” and “sane-wash” Donald Trump is the day the radical left hires a new leader. Compromising and/or capitulating isn’t an option, because every good leftist knows, you can’t cede an inch with “literally Hitler.”
That’s not even an option!
It’s a lesson that’ll cost Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) his political career.
All politicians have a base — a core group of supporters who championed their candidacy, donated money, and served as unpaid labor on the campaign trail. Without ‘em, you can’t win.
Mamdani’s base doesn’t wanna see him visit the White House, pat Donald Trump on the back, and negotiate a win-win agreement for the people of New York City. Instead, they’re expecting him to hand the president a copy of the Communist Manifesto, speak “truth to power,” kick over the negotiating table, and give “literally Hitler” a piece of his mind.
They didn’t elect Mamdani to pursue pragmatic solutions. They elected him to be a revolutionary!
Which is why Fox News is exactly wrong in today’s article, “When Trump Meets Mamdani: Five capitalist messages the democratic socialist should hear” (emphasis added).
