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One of the frustrations of democratic politics is the return of ideas once thought discredited. It seems every generation must rediscover why certain ideas are obviously stupid. Most of these ideas grow out of the mistaken belief that the government can simply provide everyone all their material needs. One of the most stubborn bad ideas to persist is rent control.
In 2010, a black man, Jimmy McMillan, launched a quixotic campaign for governor in New York for the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. Future New York governor Andrew Cuomo agreed with Jimmy McMillan that the rent is too damn high. However, the episode was mostly a joke. It is no longer.
Andrew Cuomo evidently was unable to reduce housing costs even once he became governor. High housing costs are an important issue in the New York City mayoral election. Candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani has made it a centerpiece of his campaign. As fate would have it, he is challenging frontrunner Andrew Cuomo.
Mr. Mamdani, the New York State assemblyman, is a living parody of the left-wing academic establishment. He links Black Lives Matter with the Palestinian resistance and the supposed need to defund the NYPD — the typical grab-bag of progressive causes. He was born in Uganda and named after Kwame Nkrumah. However, such Afrocentrism did not prevent Idi Amin from expelling Mr. Mamdani’s family, an experience his father recounts in the book From Citizen to Refugee.
Though the book is mostly about “Asians” who fled to the United Kingdom, the United States was unfortunate enough to host this family of “anti-colonial” activists instead. The younger Mamdani graduated with a degree in Africana Studies and has been involved in left-wing political activism ever since.
Many older conservatives may think that a Muslim socialist could never become mayor of New York City, but they underestimate the consequences of the demographic and political shift that’s been taking place. The rise of Mr. Mamdani and those like him indicates a change throughout the entire Democratic Party, as white and Jewish incumbents are challenged by non-white socialists who run on a platform of economic redistribution with a nod to Palestine. The most spectacular case is that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted one of the Democratic Party’s longtime leaders. Even the biggest donors in the wealthiest city in the country seem unable to halt the shift.
AOC is well-placed to shape the new Democratic Party. According to a recent CNN poll, Democratic voters thought she best represented the core values of the party, even more than Kamala Harris. Political analyst Nate Silver argues that AOC may even be the next Democratic nominee for president. However, she may have more modest ambitions and could seek to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in New York. If she does, polls suggest she will easily win.
Candidates like Mr. Mamdani and Miss Ocasio-Cortez benefit from the revolution that has taken place within “mainstream” liberal institutions since 2020. Newspapers such as the New York Times suffered a staff revolt from reporters indignant that it even allowed Senator Tom Cotton to have a say in the paper. Perhaps the biggest change in American culture since the rise of Donald Trump is the loss of free speech as a unifying American value, with journalists and academics increasingly championing the idea that democracies have a responsibility to limit “misinformation” and “hate speech.” It is a view AOC herself holds, famously taunting Tucker Carlson when he lost his Fox News show that “deplatforming works and it is important.”
Far-left socialists can count on the “mainstream” press laundering their ideas and making them sound moderate, while journalists incite hysteria about the likes of Donald Trump. This gives the far-left a critical advantage. While even soft immigration critics must eternally fend off charges of fascism, reporters will frame calls for redistribution of wealth, reparations, or government control of wealth as idealistic or exciting.
Yet we should not kid ourselves that socialist ideas are unpopular. One of the uncomfortable truths Republicans prefer to ignore is that spite and envy are powerful political forces, perhaps the most powerful. Donald Trump has been able to wield scorn against the “liberal elite” to great effect, not least because his opponents played into his hands. The Democratic Party in 2024 made a critical mistake by trying to build a “respectable” coalition against Trumpism by having Kamala Harris tour with Liz Cheney and defend “Bidenomics.”
The way is open for left-wing economic populism as an alternative. For example, a rent freeze in New York City has the support of more than 75 percent of voters. Socialism itself is fairly popular in the United States, with more than a third of American adults viewing it positively. Organizations in the conservative movement that habitually label all liberal policies as “socialist” cannot effectively respond if socialism itself is rehabilitated. Trump-style populism is one way to counter this, but the Republican Party and the conservative movement has learned little from MAGA. Currently, at least some conservatives think the path forward is to shame young men for not working hard enough.
Yet if the Left has an implicit majority ready to rally behind multicultural socialism and economic populism, what has stopped it so far? The answer is black voters. Blacks dominate the Democratic primaries and serve a remarkably conservative role. Black voters stymied Bernie Sanders in his repeated runs for the Democratic presidential nomination. Black voters and political leaders made sure Joe Biden got the presidential nomination in 2020 and remained loyal to him when others began to break. Black officials in the Democratic party also made sure that a Kamala Harris coronation rather than a competitive primary would replace President Biden once Nancy Pelosi and others forced him out. They explicitly justified this on racial grounds, with white Democrats who might have been eager to challenge Kamala Harris unwilling to take on the first black female vice president.
Whatever their liberal views, blacks generally view politics in an old-fashioned, almost feudal sense. The congressional districts specially constructed for black representation by Supreme Court fiat give black politicians a secure base and encourage a small-“c” conservatism that ensures establishment support. Old-fashioned political tactics like distributing jobs, patronage, and federal contracts allow black politicians to pragmatically support establishment candidates rather than riskier progressives.
Progressives are even more wedded to left-wing racial orthodoxy than moderates, so blacks will not pay any price for such conservatism. In fact, progressives will berate themselves for being unable to secure the moral legitimacy that comes with black support. Blacks also already enjoy some of the perceived benefits of socialism that whites may not because of programs that specifically benefit their race. Making entitlements more widely available might even be worse for blacks.
This dynamic is at work in the New York Mayor’s race. A recent poll found Andrew Cuomo leads Zohran Mamdani by 35 percent to 23 percent. However, the racial divide is stark. Almost three-quarters of black voters back Mr. Cuomo, with Mr. Mamdani leading among white voters (57 percent to 43 percent) and college-educated voters (58 percent to 42 percent). Andrew Cuomo also has the lead among women voters and older voters.
While Mr. Mamdani has the support of the energized, progressive base, Mr. Cuomo has the support of those who sustain the Democratic political machines. Mayor Eric Adams, who was put into office by black voters, is also a political wildcard. He is pragmatic enough (even politically flirting with the Trump Administration) that one could easily imagine him throwing his support behind Mr. Cuomo. However, though Mr. Cuomo retains the advantage, it is clear Mr. Mamdani has the political momentum and is closing the gap.
The battle over the narrative that explains a political defeat is often just as important as the election itself. After Mitt Romney lost in 2012, Republican consultants settled on the explanation that the GOP was too hard on immigrants. Their infamous “autopsy” concluded in 2013 that the GOP should become a pro-immigration party that was soft on racial issues. Instead, Donald Trump took over the party and built a movement that successfully won more minority votes — especially Hispanics — than Mitt Romney could have dreamed of. It’s hard to imagine how dire the GOP’s plight would have been had they followed the path urged by the “political experts.”
A similar battle within the Democratic Party is taking place now. Some argue that the Democrats have become too “woke,” especially in its messaging to young men. Democrats are mobilizing at least $20 million (more money than the pro-white movement in America has ever seen) for an effort to lure young men back to the Left, especially by promoting key influencers.
Economic populism may be part of this effort. Joe Rogan, for example, was once a Bernie Bro. Yet black voters are a major obstacle to any systematic effort to reorient the Democratic Party in a more socialist direction. The last thing black officials ensconced in the party bureaucracy want is to give power to a new class of media-friendly socialist influencers who are not dependent on the party structure. There is also a major split between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces in the party, exemplified by the divide between figures like Chuck Schumer and AOC.
The New York mayoral race will provide a valuable insight into the Democratic primary in 2028. The Democratic establishment accepts capitalism and Zionism and is thus an easy target for younger progressives. However, the hated Establishment is also the clear choice of black voters, whom no white progressive can afford to attack directly. Leftist influencers, journalists, and podcasters have been raging against the Democratic establishment since 2016, furious that they have been unable to accomplish what Trump Republicans have within the GOP. Unfortunately for them, black voters stand in the way of their would-be socialist revolution.
If Mr. Cuomo defeats Mr. Mamdani in New York, more progressives may pursue a more radical course as they grapple with continued political failure at the hands of their supposed black allies. If Mr. Mamdani triumphs, Republicans should prepare for a more overtly socialist challenge in 2028. That may be what Republicans should truly fear. Though they’re more “radical,” economic populism and even socialism may have more appeal to economically struggling swing voters than the likes of Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris. If Republicans want to win, they should not want someone like AOC to be the face of the Democrats. They should want Jasmine Crockett instead.
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Yet the author here uses a “grab-bag” approach to “link” opposition to the Israeli destruction of Palestinians with blacks, “socialists,” criminals, and other groups out of favor with his core audience. Otherwise, Gaza goes ignored by TUR’s Diffident Righters like Hood, Derbyshire, Taylor, and Sailer.
Why?
We are not interested in darkies.
– Except in *keeping them out* of white homelands.
So why does Hood bother to throw “progressive” shade on those who are?
These guys are a bunch of grifters and fed assets on Zionist payrolls, as most of the so-called “alt-right” turned out to be. Some of these jokers even turn out to be Jews posing as Gentiles (most notoriously Ben Klassen of Church of the Creator, who claimed to be a Mennonite but was most definitely a Jew), or they’re married to Jewish women. The love affair with Zionism never ends with these people.
This is the only schtick they’ve got and it’s how they pay the rent and/or mortgage. And even then they’re not very good, otherwise they’d have a much bigger following. Steve Sailer, Gregory Hood, et al are nowhere in the same league as someone like Tucker Carlson, who does have a real impact on the masses, or even lesser known characters like Stew Peters, Mark Dice, and Jackson Hinkle, among many others, all of whom put these Zionist shills to shame.
The Democratic party is dominated by blacks who seek to profit, not win elections. They tried change by bringing in a young leader but he was a troublesome white male who wanted to win elections, so ousted him.
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Carlson, Peters, Dice etc. will never name the real problem, the Jews.
“as white and Jewish incumbents are challenged by non-white socialists”
Jews and whites are not “in it together,” you slimy little cretin. GH proving once again that AR is simply the white NAACP which was black on the outside and Jewish on the inside.
Thank you for the fill in on Mandani. I don’t know if he belongs to the Democratic Socialists, a highly organized group of Socialists working within the Democratic Party. This is where AOC got her start. She was running against a tired old Irish-American guy, who should have been retired years before. In New York City one does not have a much of choice other than a liberal or Marxist Democrat. It depends upon what shade of blue catches your eye at the moment. Even though I am a registered GOP, I really don’t feel as if I belong there either. I’ve read UNZ for too long, I guess. LOL. I should never be surprised by the chutzpah of critters like Andrew Cuomo or even Anthony Weiner, who I understand wants to re-enter politics.There is nothing that I like politically about Mandani, but he is a fresh face – and that in itself may be attractive to some. So, what should a disaffected person like myself do on Election Day? Basket weaving time? Go to the local saloon? Take a very long nap (sounds like the best choice). And yes, the RENT is too damn HIGH –just kidding.
I was watching some D.C. nig-nog go on & on about the DNC vote to be redone (or something) in June. It was something to do with gender. It had to have a man, a woman, and any “gender.” The point was that there was a male in place and he had to go. During the course of the babble he kept insisting that a woman had to be put in there (either an XX or a XY posing as a woman (but, no genetic test mentioned).
What I got to is this: women are the new niggers on the block. Apparently, that was his main point? I really can’t disagree with that.
In any event, I haven’t gone to the polls in over 45 years. So, whatever, don’t…blame…me!
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No sympathy for NY capitalists
This multiculturalism has the same origins and purpose as the Jewish counterculture of the 1960s, which purpose is destroying white America. The original enemy was the Catholic Church, and although that hatred endures to this day, it’s now been extended to all whites.
The operating principle of the Democrats is that whatever comes from whites is evil and that whatever is wrong with society was intentionally inflicted on minorities by whites. To paraphrase Nietzsche, voting among minorities is chiefly about vengeance against whites, and only secondarily about graft that benefits only those at the top. TV news, including PBS, relentlessly tries to make bleeding-heart whites feel guilty for the failure of others, while instilling hatred of whites in blacks and Hispanics nonstop.
The ideal society is said to come into existence when everything associated with whites is destroyed and whites are exterminated. This ideal society has no features other than a denial of everything white. African independence makes clear what that future will look like, with the murders in South Africa no mere warning, but a prophetic warning of what will be when native opposition is neutralized by the Jewish-owned Republican Party. Democrats are up in arms over the deportation of murderers, rapists, and thieves brought into this country to destroy it, and Republicans, out of fear of bad press, respond by bowing and scraping toward their “dear friends and colleagues across the aisle.”
For this genocide of whites to succeed, the “elites” need to control the masses of blacks and Hispanics they see as no more than subhumans. The largely Jewish elites do this with feigned solidarity—we’re soul people, too; feigned compassion—we’re all in this together against those hated white Christians; and, by imitation—such as rich NY cosmopolitans on the Seinfeld Show gettin’ on down and rapping with bro’s in the ‘hood.
An author on this site, Anatoly Karlin, said that he didn’t vote because he didn’t want to be in any way morally responsible for what the winners did in his name. I find that a perfectly reasonable, even admirable, position to take. His conscience was more important to him than any infinitesimal “power” he could exercise over world affairs. And, let’s face it: how much does your vote really “count” in this time of chicanery and even lawlessness?
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (the “Shakers”) also did not participate in politics. They accepted males and females, Blacks and Whites, into their membership. They opposed both slavery and the Civil War, and their “answer” to both was a simple life of work and worship.
Civic “goody-goodies” want to shame abstainers, of course. The State wants to claim a mandate to rule.
The Shakers shook themselves right into oblivion with that celibacy nonsense. However, if we could convince the Jews and Blacks to embrace celibacy that’s a horse of another color.
Stew Peters constantly names the Jew. Carlson and Dice not so much.
Singapore is a small and densely populated country. The government does not allow rents to rise to all-the-market-can bear prices. The government of Singapore regulates rents, and I think most people live in subsidized/government supplied housing. Because otherwise competition for housing would jack up rents, and landlords would get a windfall in UNEARNED rents. Last I heard, Singapore was doing pretty well. Just saying.
Do these “consultants” actually work for the Republican Party, or do the Jews who bankroll the “mainline” Republican Party send these people to talk to the nominal leaders of the Republican Party?
Obviously, they were saying the only things they were allowed to say and keep their job at that time.
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Pictured below … McMillan absolutely dominated the candidates’ debate, getting the audience to erupt in repeated laughter and cheers, and McMillan was all people could talk about for days afterwards, tho Cuomo got a few points for wisely saying that McMillan was right about the rent prices
But the claim with the voting after the debate, was that almost no one voted for McMillan despite his being the talk of the entire state, and that huge numbers of votes went to a bunch of mostly nobodies instead
Rigged, many New Yorkers felt, and still do feel that … the real populist sidelined by shadowy manipulation … as Joe Stalin said
Dear T. J.:
I, as Supreme Exalted Minister Plenipotentiary of the Mystical Order of Dixie Shakers, do hereby appoint thee Evangelist unto the Afro-Ams.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to go humbly with Christ Jesus amongst the ho’s and aspiring rappers of the Inner Cities of America, preaching the Gospel of Perfect Chastity.
Should you or any of your Impossible Missions Force be caught, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
“Socialism itself is fairly popular in the United States,”
The author( like many) seems to have deluded himself into thinking that Trump and Republicans in general are not all socialists.
This just in: Trump is a hardcore socialist, as is the entire Republican/conservative er, “movement”.
In the US, as elsewhere, there are 2 popular brands of socialism (collectivism): communism and fascism. Trump/ Republicanism is mostly fascist, the Dems are mostly commie.
The fight between 2 supposedly different forms of socialism is an illusion, a diversion, a scam.
Both brands are radically opposed to individual freedom , and both require even more government to run everyone’s lives, and will do absolutely anything to achieve that objective; fascists will even appear to turn more communistic, and commies will embrace fascism if it furthers their idiotic objectives.
“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic” H.L.Mencken
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. . . they were saying the only things they were allowed to say and keep their job . . .
This applies in spades to nearly every member of the House who we now know, thanks to Rep. Massie, has a Jewish minder appointed to his or her staff by AIPAC. These members allowing someone appointed by AIPAC to oversee their actions means these members are pesumptively agents of a foreign country. This is undue influence on steroids to the extent it probably entails espionage, and is probable cause for impeachment, removal from office, and investigation for treason. It’s a bigger scandal than the Biden White House being a remake of Weekend at Bernie’s. The Senate convicting members of the House for what they’re doing themselves, however, has as little chance of happening as the members of Congress putting the interests of America ahead of those of Israel.
Bottom line is globalist Republicans represented by people like the Bush family and Romney would rather Democrats win than Trump or anyone else wanting to stop illegal immigration. That is clear since they refused to support Trump and did everything they could to defeat him. That also goes for their big funders like Koch and others.
The purpose of rent control is not to provide housing subsidies to selected individuals but to protect the housing stock from predatory real estate speculation. In some circles that activity is held to be the inviolable prerogative of the Invisible Hand of the Free Market, although it is neither free nor strictly speaking a market, and the Hand has only its middle finger elevated at us. Millions of units lie empty while millions live in tents, because the big hedge funds have targeted housing as their next big opportunity to plunder the economy. And our bought and paid for local and national governments have abrogated their sworn duty “to promote the common welfare.”
AOC lost no time selling out to the Deep State, so yes indeed she would be the ideal candidate for the Dems to run to lose the next election.
Reading all this excited comment about the astonishing power of the “far left” reminds me of the story of the poor working class Jew who read the Nazi party paper Volkischer Beobacter religiously every day, because he said it made him feel so much better to see how he was actually running the world. I do wish rightists could learn the definitions of socialism and leftism and all the other scare words they use in blissful ignorance of their meaning, or how much we owe these movements. Do you think the eight hour day and the five day week magically dropped out of the sky, or did American workers organize and spill blood when necessary to win them?
The last I checked Gaza isn’t a state in the US or a borough in NYC. For some reason, you are obsessed with Gaza. Not to the point of actually doing anything, but harping on the issue constantly. I hate to break this to you, but the leftists, the socialists in America hate regular Whites even more than they hate Jews. And if tomorrow every Jew in the world turned black, they’d never mention Palestinians again. They hate Jews because they hate Whites and Jews have White skin.
But you’re evading the question.
As “Gaza isn’t a state in the US or a borough in NYC,” why do writers like Hood go out of their way to de-sympathize the Palestinians and flak for Israel? Maybe you couldn’t care less, but he stuck it in the essay for some reason. The clunky passage I quoted above otherwise needlessly associating “the Palestinian resistance” with other people and ideas his core audience holds in contempt has the apparent purpose of manipulating disaffected whites, a la Sailer.
If you’ve another explanation, please offer it.
Your mind is in the 1930s. The “left” you’re writing about no longer exists. In the US, the left is an angry group of minorities and self-hating Whites whose only purpose is to cause injuries to White Americans. You may wish Joe Hill was still out there rallying working people, but that’s not reality. “Leftist” “socialist” are just terms that mean taking money from middle class Whites and transferring it to others, as well as allowing sexual degenerates to be placed above normal people. At least in America, might be different elsewhere.
At least you’re perceiving half of the Establishment’s identity politics. But it takes two to tangle .. and that’s where Hood fits White Right in.
Biden sent missiles to Israel for Nikki to sign, and nothing in that regard was changed by Most Important Election Ever v.2024. Tell yourselves that you don’t care, but the Beltway people put that far, far above any of your concerns.
Liberals eventually being overwhelmed and eaten alive by their own multicultralism has been predicted for decades. White liberals simply take it for granted that they will occupy a position of privilege and high status in the multicultural utopia. Ironically they take it for granted because they believe they are superior. It’s basically a laundered version of white supremacy.
I always heard “Two to tango” not “tangle”.
I understand your most important issue is Gaza. I am also against the killing of civilians. Not just in Gaza, but elsewhere. On the other hand, the Trump administration isn’t hostile to White Americans, is ending affirmative action and DEI, has closed the border, has offered asylum to the Afrikaaners, has reduced regulations and is about to sign a budget that cuts taxes. I’ll take what I can get in this imperfect world.
It is with great honor that I accept this title and mission. I solemnly swear to go forth with the faith and the powers you have vested to me. Through pray and reasoning I hope to curtail the sinful activities of these concupiscent, hyper-sexual heathens. Using castration only as a final resort.
That’s exactly what I have observed in the UK. White liberal goody goodies fondly imagined that non-white immigrants would never compete with them or their kin for housing, jobs, political power, etcetera. But they were wrong and now they’re upset to find that Indians are getting all the professional jobs, buying up all the expensive properties, and even taking over in government.
(And when I was tutoring, the son or daughter of Chinese parents who couldn’t speak english and worked in a take away was typically far better at maths than the son or daughter of white middle class professionals.)
I have deep faith in thee, my Spiritual Son.
“If thine eye offend thee, cut it out”, said the Lord. Father of the Early Church Origen sought to obliterate his lust by cutting off his “Lucky Charms”.
Imagining Castration Gangs of pious Dixie Shakers, led by thee, roaming the dark streets of Memphis with Bowie knives, doing the Work of the Lord and benefitting the American taxpayer at the same time, doth give mine heart godly joy.
A place for thee in the Heavenly Jerusalem is even now being prepared by the angels.
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No, but it’s apparently more important than much anything else to the Establishment that’s destroying people and places it can’t control overseas and thus disgracing our country and caring practically nothing for our interests.