It took no time in any respect for Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral main win to remind us that white conservatives haven’t modified a lot for the reason that Obama years.
Mamdani had already despatched shockwaves across the nation when early main outcomes confirmed that he took a commanding lead and was anticipated to win the Democratic nomination over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, however now that he has claimed victory, and the MAGA world has been introduced with the probability that he might be NYC’s subsequent mayor, the Islamophobes are Isgamophobing like we haven’t seen, arguably, for the reason that Black president all of them referred to as a Muslim, socialist, communist, Marxist, unlawful immigrant and illegitimate president, regardless of him being none of these issues, was nonetheless in workplace.
Right here’s loud and proud white nationalist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer demonstrating that she has no concept what communism is whereas linking Mamdani to the 9/11 terrorist assaults, which occurred when Mamdani was all of 9 years outdated.
“New Yorkers forgot all concerning the victims of 9/11 killed by Muslims,” Loomer tweeted. “Now a Muslim Communist would be the mayor of New York Metropolis. Get out whilst you can.”
TurningPoint USA founder Charlie Kirk shared the identical sentiment, tweeting, “24 years in the past a gaggle of Muslims killed 2,753 individuals on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on tempo to run New York Metropolis.”
It by no means fails, does it? White males have been overwhelmingly answerable for home terrorist assaults, together with mass shootings, for many years, however none of those MAGA morons would ever recommend a white man shouldn’t be mayor of a metropolis the place any of these assaults occurred.
Think about the meltdown white conservatives would have if lawmakers, elected officers, pundits and residents began suggesting that white Christian males shouldn’t be allowed to guide any metropolis or state the place white Christian males have dedicated murderous atrocities. Tulsa, Oklahoma, electing its first Black mayor solely final 12 months could be fairly the political scandal, wouldn’t it? We’d undoubtedly want to verify Birmingham, Alabama, by no means noticed one other white mayor, wouldn’t we? (I imply, we’d actually should bar white male Christians from being elected to any workplace within the nation, however y’all get my level.)
Anybody conversant in America’s Reconstruction period is aware of that the Ku Klux Klan and different white supremacist teams justified their racist ideology by spreading propaganda about Black males raping white ladies — a story that’s nonetheless promoted by mathematically challenged white individuals as we speak. Nicely, right here’s Tennessee-based Christian nationalist, Pastor Greg Locke, making use of that very same Grand Wizard mentality to color a dismal image of NYC underneath the rule of a Muslim mayor.
“NEW YORK CITY has fallen,” Locke declared. “The demonic sounds of Islamic prayer calls will quickly be heard all through the streets. The trash will pile increased than ever. Jews and Christians might be hated. Rape will skyrocket. NYC would be the subsequent London.”
After all, Locke isn’t the one MAGA-fied fearmonger on-line typing out his anti-Muslim model of Beginning of a Nation.
Additionally, lest we overlook, within the MAGA thoughts (for those who can name it a thoughts), even political candidates and elected officers are DEI-hires in the event that they aren’t white males.
However, hey, these are simply right-wing political activists and randoms on the web, proper? It’s not like elected officers or President Donald Trump’s highest-ranking Cupboard members are out right here being white nationalists and Islamophobic bigots, proper?
Right here’s Trump’s senior advisor, Stephen Miller, turning Mamdani’s win into validation of the white nationalist Nice Substitute Concept. (One other product of Klan rhetoric that was referenced in a manifesto left by white supremacist Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron.)
“The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for Mayor omits one level: how unchecked migration basically remade the NYC voters,” Miller tweeted. “Democrats change politics by altering voters. That’s the way you flip a metropolis that outlined US dominance into what it’s now.”
Hell, whereas we’re at it, Trump himself responded to Mamdani’s win by decrying the overwhelming assist of a “communist lunatic.”
“It’s lastly occurred, the Democrats have crossed the road. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has simply received the Dem Major, and is on his technique to changing into Mayor,” Trump mentioned of the man who did not just lately order the bombing of a rustic that had not attacked us earlier than getting tremendous mad that an clever report was leaked that mentioned he hadn’t bombed Iran laborious sufficient. “We’ve had Radical Lefties earlier than, however that is getting just a little ridiculous.”
Once more, none of this rampant Islamophobia started with Mamdani’s win, and none of it’s historic historical past. It’s all latest AF.
In spite of everything, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are nonetheless outstanding members of the GOP, after popularizing the time period “Jihad Squad,” which they repeatedly weaponized in opposition to Muslim congresswomen Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Hell, right here’s Greene — who as soon as urged that Omar and Tlaib weren’t “actually official” members of Congress as a result of they didn’t take the oath of workplace on the Bible and mentioned they “ought to return to the Center East” — ranting about an “Islamic invasion” of the U.S. authorities primarily based on nothing however the truth that individuals who occur to be Muslim are working for workplace and profitable elections.
Look, Mamdani is a pro-reparations progressive, which is why a number of the extra average (and disappointing) Democrats in Congress are shying away from him, too, however the MAGA meltdown isn’t about his politics; it’s about his identification.
I’d say these fools are making xenophobia and anti-Muslim hate nice once more—however this perspective is nothing new. We noticed it after 9/11. We noticed it throughout all eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, and we’ve seen it day-after-day for the reason that present president, who led the birther motion in opposition to his predecessor, was elected proper after Obama.
They haven’t modified, and so they doubtless by no means will. That’s why America won’t ever see the “unity” they fake to need.
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