Tilting At Windmills

Tilting At Windmills

This should terrify everyone

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Tom Knighton
May 27, 2026
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Zohran Mamdani, the current Mayor of New York City, ran his campaign as a socialist. He talked about the “warm embrace of collectivism” as if that were a good thing, and he’s been very clear that he has no respect for property rights.

After all, he’s a socialist. They’ve never had any respect for property rights. It’s baked into the ideology as a core concept. If you have property rights, then they can’t seize the means of production.

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Mamdani is a prime example, and his latest stance should scare the hell out of every single person who doesn’t want to end up seeing people put against a wall and shot.

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