The Dems' Mandani madness

 Blaze:

Vice President JD Vance tore into the Democratic rising star Zohran Mamdani in a Saturday-night speech over his apparent ingratitude and disregard for American tradition as he vies to helm the United States' largest city.

During his keynote speech for the Claremont Institute on Saturday, Vance methodically detailed how Mamdani's mayoral candidacy insults the very culture, history, and generosity of the country that allowed him to succeed, according to a transcript exclusively obtained by Blaze News. Mamdani, whose family fled political persecution in Uganda, won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City and is shaping up to be the front-runner in the contested race against current NYC Mayor Eric Adams (independent).

"If our victory, if President Trump's victory in 2024 was rooted in a broad, working- and middle-class coalition, Mamdani's coalition is almost the inverse of that," Vance said.

Although he campaigned on progressive policies that are typically targeted toward "underprivileged" and protected classes, Mamdani won high-income, college-educated voters. He also did particularly well in New York City's gentrified neighborhoods, like Ridgewood and Bushwick. At the same time, he struggled among black voters and voters without a college degree.

"That's an interesting coalition," Vance noted. "Maybe it works in the New York Democratic primary. I don't think it works particularly well in the United States at large."

"His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives but see that their elite degrees aren't really delivering what they expected," Vance added.

"And I say that not to criticize them, because I think that we should care about all the people in our country. ... But we have to be honest about where his coalition is. It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It's about elite."

Vance describes Mamdani and his supporters' progressive worldview as ultimately paradoxical, uniquely motivated by a disdain for the American tradition.
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My impression of Mamdani is that he is already pretty radical.  Going further to the left would only further shrink his support.  I don't think a campaign built on being the opposite of Trump is going to be competitive.  Trump's win in 2024 had as much to do with discontent about what the Democrats were pushing and the ecomonc decline of the Biden administration.  Going to the left of Biden was always going to be a failure 

See also:

Zohran Mamdani’s ‘radical ingratitude’ to the city and nation that gave him everything

And:

 Vance: Here’s How Mamdani Won the New York Mayoral Primary