The Norm Macdonald Candidate

As we enter the final stretch of the New York City mayoral race, the gloves are coming off. Not that it is likely to matter at this point, but Mamdani is taking flak for his cozying up to Islamists, including an Imam who was tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and his friendship with Hasan Piker, who routinely calls for the murder of Americans he dislikes, and who has said that America deserved 9/11.

Nobody with Mandani’s comfort level with terrorism should be in power anywhere, but in a sane world, you would put New York City at the top of the list of places where praising 9/11 in particular and Islamist terrorism in general would be disqualifying. 

I dunno, the dream of this particular Muslim seemed to be blowing up the World Trade Center https://t.co/iOxaiuuMCy pic.twitter.com/kGx3hLR4xk

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 25, 2025

But we live in an age of Critical Race Theory, where intersectional identity politics has created an oppression Olympics, where status and power are distributed based on how much victimhood one can claim. And Muslims have managed to acquire a lot of victim points for some reason, despite being an especially coddled class of people. 

THREAT ALERT: NEW YORK

Democratic Socialists of America leader, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, is a Muslim immigrant from Uganda, who running for NY State Assembly, District 36

Mamdani describes how Muslims are the victims of 9/11 & continuously pushes unproven claims of discrimination. pic.twitter.com/Cp14Kxa5E5

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) February 10, 2020

Mamdani is straight out of intersectional central casting. If only he were transgender, he would have hit the Powerball of oppression, but a Muslim immigrant whose education, good looks, and charm make him an ideal political candidate. He can claim oppression points for his color, immigration status, and religion, while simultaneously being smooth enough to make AWFLs swoon. 

He’s got a great smile and makes fun TikToks. 

My aunt had a similar story. She stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because two muslims flew a plane into her office and killed her. https://t.co/iN0o5VLRqG

— SoVeryIsraeli🇮🇱 (@soveryisraeli) October 25, 2025

Mamdani has dipped into his victimhood capital to rebut the criticisms he has taken for cozying up to Islamists who want Sharia law and who believe that you and I should be dead. How dare anybody criticize Muslims! It is racism and Islamophobia!

Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”

Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
pic.twitter.com/aILr4JtVvF

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 24, 2025

The whole “Islamophobia” narrative is, of course, bunk. Between 60% and 70% of religiously motivated hate crimes are aimed at Jews, but Muslims have assumed pride of place at the top of the heap because politicians and the media pretend that they are targets for widespread violence. 

He’s feeling himself now.

You can’t fathom how bad this is going to get. https://t.co/QPYIN0WK62

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 25, 2025

The truth is that, since 9/11, there has been a massive campaign by the elite to suppress what would be a natural distrust of Islam. The Muslim population in the United States has skyrocketed since 9/11, and Muslims have taken over entire cities. There is a taboo against criticizing Islam or Muslims in elite circles, despite the obvious fact that vast numbers of the Muslim immigrants are quite clear that they despise our laws, our culture, and want to Islamize our society. 

Made me miss Norm Macdonald. https://t.co/V6sP5tUlMz pic.twitter.com/YWe5sbgLfg

— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) October 24, 2025

It’s the Norm Macdonald joke. No matter how much hate or how much damage Muslims do, we have to protect Islam from criticism. 

The “Islamophobia” role reversal, which purports to reframe 9/11 as an attack on Muslims, is a very purposeful strategy.

People like Zohran Mamdani have learned that if they cry bigotry enough, they can get their opposition to disengage. And the ultimate goal is to conquer.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 25, 2025

It’s pathological. Many Arab countries designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, but Western countries don’t want to appear to be bigots, so they don’t. Countries like the United States and Great Britain bend over backward to accommodate the most outrageous demands by Muslims, while working mightily to suppress any criticism aimed at Islam. 

Zohran Mamdani’s father: America is the root of all evil and was the inspiration for the nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln.

I’m sure Zohran loves America though. Nice job NYC. pic.twitter.com/iwDzioc9Kk

— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 26, 2025

The interesting thing, though, is that the taboo is very much an elite phenomenon now. People are tired of being gaslit about this and other issues. And you can see that in the Mamdani phenomenon. 

These are really bad numbers. Zohran has shown a lot of talent, but not when it comes to winning over more general election voters than a Democrat in NYC should (Cuomo polls within the margin of error in a H2H!) and we should look at that before using him as a template. pic.twitter.com/QQWypXBNsp

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) October 24, 2025

Democrats are swooning over him and looking to see whether he should be a model for the future, but outside elite circles, the man is not that popular. He will get a lot of votes just for being the Democratic Party candidate, but he isn’t even as popular as AOC among Democrats. And that’s not because they don’t know him. 

The victimhood gambit is losing its power.

Mamdani’s unfavorability isn’t driven by a partisan asymmetry in name recognition — similar shares of Democrats (58%) and Republicans (63%) have heard enough to form an opinion on him. The reality is just that the voters who know of him simply do not like him. One way to examine this in more detail is to look at his two-way favorability rating, which essentially says “of those who have an opinion on Zohran Mamdani, what percentage like him?”

The results are grim for Mamdani. Among self-identified Democrats and Independents alike and among voters at large, his numbers are actually considerably worse than those of Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez, and Harris.

Mamdani’s national poll numbers are irrelevant for his immediate political future. When it comes to New York City itself, he is popular (and considerably more so than his opponents). But the numbers show that the feverish attempts to make national extrapolations from Mamdani’s win are wrongheaded.

At a high level, everyone knows that what works in New York City doesn’t necessarily work nationally. New York is among the bluest areas in the country, having backed Kamala Harris by nearly 40 percentage points in 2024. A Democratic nominee being above water in New York City is the bare minimum, not a cause for celebration.

The elite are going to stick with the intersectional identity victimhood Olympics, but its power to shield people like Mamdani is waning fast. 

Imagine being married to a Brown woman and having mixed-race kids and then publicly mocking other Brown people as they talk publicly and emotionally about their experience of racism. Vance is just a bad person. https://t.co/UQoKGkn3h4

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 25, 2025

You see the problem? Leftists put everybody into reductive categories–“brown” and “muslim” in Hasan’s case–while Vance doesn’t see his wife and children in those terms. Most Americans are tired of being lectured to like that. Nobody fears Usha Vance or her children because they are not scary. People like Mamdani and his friends are, and we have a right to say so. 

It’s exhausting to be told that a Muslim socialist hanging out with terrorists is immune from criticism. Donald Trump removing a tree planted in honor of Warren G. Harding causes a national firestorm of criticism, but Mamdani campaigning with the Imam who taught the World Trade Center bombers is a hero?

The taboo is dying of exhaustion. We have to face reality and call ’em as we see ’em. 

The woke moment isn’t over by a long shot–the elite are still fully committed to it–but their power to shame us into compliance is waning by the day. We can look at somebody like Hasan Piker or Zohran Mamdani and see beyond the intersectional shield that Critical Theory erected for them. 

More and more people are willing to, thank God. 

It’s about time. 

UPDATE: 

It appears that the whole “my Aunt was afraid to ride the subway story was a complete fabrication. His Aunt is a lefty NGO leader who neither wears a hijab nor was in New York City after 9/11.

2/ Masuma Mamdani, the traumatized post-9/11 allegedly hijab-wearing globalist technocrat/sexual and reproductive health specialist. Also was she in NYC or Tanzania post 9/11? pic.twitter.com/534YH8Wdni

— Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. (@naomirwolf) October 26, 2025

Nobody who is voting for Mamdani cares a whit, though. They love Narratives™, and reality only gets in the way. 

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