It took no time in any respect for Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral major win to remind us that white conservatives haven’t modified a lot because the Obama years.
Mamdani had already despatched shockwaves across the nation when early major 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 chance that he will likely be NYC’s subsequent mayor, the Islamophobes are Isgamophobing like we haven’t seen, arguably, because the 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communism is whereas linking Mamdani to the 9/11 terrorist assaults, which occurred when Mamdani was all of 9 years outdated.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 in regards to the victims of 9/11 killed by Muslims,” Loomer tweeted. “Now a Muslim Communist would be the mayor of New York Metropolis. Get out when you can.”
TurningPoint USA founder Charlie Kirk shared the identical sentiment, tweeting, “24 years in the past a bunch of Muslims killed 2,753 folks 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 counsel 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 yr can be fairly the political scandal, wouldn’t it? We’d positively want to ensure 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 aware of 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 folks in the present day. Effectively, 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 beneath 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 greater than ever. Jews and Christians will likely be hated. Rape will skyrocket. NYC would be the subsequent London.”
In fact, Locke isn’t the one MAGA-fied fearmonger on-line typing out his anti-Muslim model of Delivery of a Nation.
Additionally, lest we neglect, within the MAGA thoughts (should you 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 Alternative Principle. (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 essentially 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 option to turning into Mayor,” Trump stated of the man who did not lately order the bombing of a rustic that had not attacked us earlier than getting tremendous mad that an clever report was leaked that stated he hadn’t bombed Iran exhausting sufficient. “We’ve had Radical Lefties earlier than, however that is getting slightly ridiculous.”
Once more, none of this rampant Islamophobia started with Mamdani’s win, and none of it’s historical historical past. It’s all latest AF.
In any case, 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 prompt 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 stated they “ought to return to the Center East” — ranting about an “Islamic invasion” of the U.S. authorities based mostly on nothing however the truth that individuals who occur to be Muslim are working for workplace and successful 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 id.
I’d say these fools are making xenophobia and anti-Muslim hate nice once more—however this angle 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 each day because the present president, who led the birther motion in opposition to his predecessor, was elected proper after Obama.
They haven’t modified, they usually probably by no means will. That’s why America won’t ever see the “unity” they fake to need.
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