The New York City mayoral race has boiled down to a nightmare binary: Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced architect of liberal failure, versus Zohran Mamdani, a venomous, antisemitic Marxist hell-bent on torching the city to the ground.
A fresh Gotham Polling and AARP survey shows Cuomo neck-and-neck with Mamdani if Republican Curtis Sliwa bows out — but Sliwa's stubborn refusal to quit is handing the keys to a socialist apocalypse on a silver platter.
This is a gut-wrenching betrayal for New York City Republicans: back a quixotic long shot with zero chance at victory, swallow a revolting Democrat, or let an unrepentant, Jew-hating communist seize power.
As a lifelong Republican, Trump Advisory Board member, and New York City business owner, it makes me sick to my stomach — but there's only one path to survival: vote Andrew Cuomo for mayor.
The numbers scream it: if Republicans choke down the bile, fulfill their duty, and rally behind Cuomo, New York can be yanked from the abyss. He's the sole bulwark against Mamdani's reign of terror.
Let’s be crystal clear — this is no love letter to Cuomo's legacy or the policies that gutted the state. It's a cold-eyed recognition that New Yorkers are trapped between a corrupt rock and a genocidal hard place.
Cuomo's flaws are legion, but Mamdani is a Category 5 catastrophe that would inflict irreversible, soul-crushing damage on America's greatest city. His election would turbocharge economic suicide, obliterate public safety, and erase every vestige of New York's fighting spirit.
Mamdani's war on policing is the most urgent existential threat — a direct assault on every New Yorker's right to walk the streets without fear.
He built his toxic brand by labeling the police department as "racist," "corrupt," and an "enemy of the people."
In 2020, he bayed for its total dismantlement and defunding. Now, facing voter revolt over skyrocketing crime, he slithers into "reform" rhetoric like a coward. Don't buy the lie — his core hatred hasn't budged.
He vows to slash officer overtime, gut elite units that crush gangs and riots, and rip disciplinary power from the police commissioner, dumping it into the laps of unaccountable, clueless political hacks.
He demands scrapping the gang database — the very tool that just nailed Tren de Aragua thugs who assaulted cops.
Mamdani isn't reforming safety; he's engineering anarchy. Trust in order? He'll shatter it. Basic survival? He'll gamble it away for his defund fetish.
His economic blueprint is pure Bolshevik poison, straight from the fever swamps of "seize the means of production" — a direct quote from "The Communist Manifesto" he proudly embraces as his endgame.
Rent freezes to strangle landlords, free subways to bankrupt the transit authority, taxpayer-funded childcare to explode the budget, and state-run grocery stores to Sovietize food distribution. The bill? Trillions in new taxes, a mass exodus of businesses, and the final nail in New York City's private-sector coffin.
His tax jihad is even more brazenly racist and class-warfare driven. He doubles down on gutting property taxes for outer-borough families while hammering "richer and whiter" areas — a naked wealth grab masked as "equity."
It's not policy; it's plunder, designed to punish success and reward failure along racial lines.
Mamdani's contempt for New York's soul runs deeper than ideology — it's cultural vandalism. He once pushed to trash the Christopher Columbus statue for a shrine to Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchist murderers infamous for armed robbery and killing innocents.
This isn't progress; it's erasing the grit, immigrants, and history that forged the city to install a monument to violent lunacy.
Worst of all, in a city with the world's largest Jewish community outside Israel, Mamdani's antisemitism is a blazing red flag of hate. He refuses to denounce "globalize the intifada" — a call for worldwide Jewish slaughter.
He shills for BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) boycotts, skipped a Holocaust memorial vote, and denies Israel's right to exist as a Jewish homeland.
Amid a national surge in Jew-hatred, this isn't oversight; it's deliberate malice — a middle finger to Jewish safety and dignity. Elect him, and watch synagogues burn while he cheers from City Hall.
Right-wing pundits salivate over Mamdani as a midterm gift — a walking ad for Democrat extremism. But real New Yorkers aren't pawns in national games.
We won't mimic Democrats' dirty tricks of boosting unelectable radicals in primaries. That's suicide.
Cuomo is a bitter pill — his scandals, nursing-home deaths, and role in New York's decay are unforgivable. But he's a predictable centrist Democrat in this insane era: flawed, but not a foundation-destroying fanatic. He won't let the city implode.
Mamdani's victory isn't fate — it's enabled by Sliwa's ego splitting the anti-socialist vote.
Conservatives, moderates, anyone with a pulse: seize this chance. Gag, vote Cuomo, and stop the red tide. New York hangs by a thread — cut it, or save it. The choice is yours.
Jason Meister is a frequent political commentator and a Trump Advisory Board Member .
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