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Victor Davis Hanson Reveals What's Really Beneath Mamdani's Carefully Crafted Image
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Via VigilantFox.comHistorian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson highlighted three particularly troubling revelations that have recently come to light, warning that this might just be the start.
"I guarantee you more will come out every day because he's a pampered, privileged, angry, young socialist-communist," Hanson said.
Victor Davis Hanson says the façade is cracking around New York's radical socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and the revelations aren't pretty.
He lays out a portrait of a candidate who, despite a carefully managed public image, has a record steeped in hard-left ideology and contradictions that are starting to catch up with him.
"We've talked before about the front runner in the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani," he reminded viewers, setting the stage for what he described as a necessary unmasking.
Mamdani's history of openly embracing Marxist ideas, Hanson argues, is not some youthful indiscretion but a core part of his politics.
"And we've mentioned before that he talked about seizing the means of production, which comes out right out of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 'Das Kapital,' 'The Communist Manifesto.'"
It's an approach that extends beyond slogans.
Hanson pointed to a pattern of denying inconvenient truths, like Mamdani's insistence he never supported defunding the police….even with clear evidence to the contrary.
"We talked about his claims that he never advocated defunding the police, even though there was an extensive social media trail where he advocates just that."
And there's the question of targeted taxation. Mamdani's proposal to focus tax hikes specifically on "Whiter" neighborhoods isn't just about class….it's about exploiting racial division, Hanson says.
"He talked about going into richer and Whiter areas and taxing them specifically at a higher rate," he explained, pointing out the selective language that conveniently skipped over the fact that Indian Americans….like Mamdani's own family….are statistically among the nation's highest earners.