Very angry with reality. This is how the extreme right is around the world, after the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the elections for mayor of the city of New York, which took place this Tuesday.
Taken out, in The Right Diary They made a tweet, as soon as the results were known: “CONFIRMED: The radical Muslim communist immigrant from Uganda and fervent anti-Trump, Zohran Mamdani, won the New York City elections and is the new mayor of the city with the largest GDP in the world.”
100% racism and stigmatization. But they didn’t beat Agustín Romohead of the La Libertad Avanza bench in the legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires. The far-right used the election to ask to take care of “the open borders and uncontrolled immigration from countries with diametrically opposite cultures made it possible.”
It is difficult to know that they would be “diametrically opposed cultures” for this reactionary who, in addition, asked to “control the borders and therefore immigration in Argentina.”
Speaking little, but retweeting a lot, the billionaire owner of Mercado Libre, Marcos Galperindedicated himself to sharing posts by angry American far-rightists. Almost everyone suggested moving the Statue of Liberty…to Florida.
Some others analyzed the phenomenon more seriously. He Cato Institutean American far-right think tank, was concerned because 62% of young Americans between 18 and 29 years old have a favorable opinion about socialism. A little more than half, 34%, think the same about communism.
The thing is The vote for Mamdani goes far beyond the figure of the now elected mayor. It expresses precisely what the Yankee right fears: growth of leftist and socialist ideas that, in addition to expressing repudiation of Trump, they can advance to a deeper questioning of North American capitalism and its imperialist character.
In fact, that is what the huge acceptance of Mamdani’s condemnation of the genocide in Gaza. It condensed the repudiation of a growing portion of the North American population of the massacre that the State of Israel carried out and continues to carry out against the Palestinian population. That repudiation was seen in 2024 and 2025 in massive mobilizations and protest actions on university campuses in dozens of cities throughout the country.
Precisely for this, The vote for Mamdani is also a mandate. A mandate to fight the rising cost of living; to defend immigrants from Trump’s brutal racist policies; and to stop the genocide carried out by Netanyahu, with the support of Trump.
That force – which was also seen in the massive No Kings mobilizations weeks ago – is what must be developed, in a self-organized manner, from below, independently in relation to the conservative apparatus of the Democratic Party that is already operating to limit any profound change.
Only the organization of that social force -in New York and throughout the country, which was seen in the massiveness of the vote and in the active militant campaign carried out by more than 100,000 people, can confront and defeat the extreme right.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
