Vance doesn’t have much tolerance for unhinged Democrats. That’s why he’s putting them in their place.
And JD Vance just went scorched earth on this radical Leftist in must-see footage.
JD Vance Takes Aim at Zohran Mamdani and the Fractured American Left
At a recent Claremont Institute gathering, Vice President JD Vance delivered a sharp critique of New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, framing him as a vivid reflection of the American Left’s internal contradictions.
Describing Mamdani as a “33-year-old communist running an insurgent campaign,” Vance argued that his win in the Democratic mayoral primary reveals “interesting threads” that mirror the current state of the American Left.
He contrasted Mamdani’s support base with the coalition behind President Donald Trump, which Vance characterized as a “broad working-and-middle-class coalition.” Mamdani’s supporters, he noted, form “almost the inverse of that.”
Vance highlighted Mamdani’s appeal among “high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young, highly educated New Yorkers,” while pointing out his weaker performance among Black voters and those without college degrees. He also noted Mamdani’s strong support in “the Bangladeshi areas of New York” but lackluster results with “non-Bangladeshi Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese-Americans.”
The heart of Mamdani’s coalition, Vance argued, lies in “young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren’t really delivering what they expected, and so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents.” This group, he suggested, is driven not by economic hardship but by a sense of disillusionment with their elite status.
“We have to be honest about where his coalition is,” Vance said. “It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It’s about elite disaffection and elite anger.”
This coalition, Vance continued, is bolstered by “carefully selected ethnic blocs carved out of the electorate using identity politics as the knife.” He pointed to Mamdani’s “bizarre appeals to foreign politics” as evidence of this strategy, questioning why a New York mayoral candidate would focus on international figures and issues.
“Let us ask ourselves why is a mayoral candidate in our nation’s biggest city whining about banning Bibi Netanyahu, a country whose population is about the same size as that of New York, and threatening to arrest a foreign leader if he tries to come to New York City?” Vance asked.
“Why is a New York mayoral candidate attacking Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, as a war criminal? Why is he talking about ‘globalizing the intifada’?”
Vance suggested that these contradictions begin to make sense when viewed through a different lens. “Consider a movement that rails against the billionaire class, despite the fact that the billionaire class remains firmly in the corner of the modern Left; a movement that idolizes foreign religions, even as it rejects the teachings of those faiths,” he said.
“It rails, this new modern Left against white people, even as many of its funders and its grassroots activists are privileged whites themselves.”
At the core of this movement, Vance argued, is a unifying force: “What unites Islamists, gender-studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and Big Pharma lobbyists … isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx; it’s hatred.” He pointed to a shared animosity toward Trump, his supporters, and the values they represent as the “animating principle of the American far-Left.”
Mamdani, Vance concluded, embodies these tensions perfectly. “That’s why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the Left,” he stated. “He captures so many of the movement’s apparent contradictions in a single person; a guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer-funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors. These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza.”
Vance’s final assessment was clear: “He’s trying to tear something down and he’s very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-Left hates in modern America.”
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