New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat at a desk to commemorate America's semiquincentennial, and the socialist wasted little time turning the occasion into an anti-America lecture. He told his audience they each hold "the power to determine what America means," then spent the rest of the speech explaining what it means to him, and it was mostly bad.
"The powerful have always known their answer," Mamdani said. "America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal."
He claimed these unnamed villains believe America "belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin," and dismissed them with a sneer. "How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal," he said.
He even dragged Thomas Paine into it, quoting the Common Sense author's description of America as an asylum for the persecuted before taking a thinly veiled shot at President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies, accusing the Trump administration of running a nation "that persecutes those seeking asylum."
The grievance parade kept on coming.
"We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more," Mamdani said. "We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans."
Mamdani kept going, aiming for just about every industry in sight. "Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick,"
