{"id":1546543,"date":"2025-07-11T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1546543"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:25:00","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-reveals-whats-really-beneath-mamdanis-carefully-crafted-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/victor-davis-hanson-reveals-whats-really-beneath-mamdanis-carefully-crafted-image\/1546543\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson Reveals What’s Really Beneath Mamdani’s Carefully Crafted Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson Reveals What’s Really Beneath Mamdani’s Carefully Crafted Image<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via\u00a0VigilantFox.com<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Cracks are beginning to show in the carefully curated image of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Questions about his past and controversial positions are surfacing, drawing fresh scrutiny to his campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson highlighted three particularly troubling revelations that have recently come to light, warning that this might just be the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guarantee you more will come out every day because he\u2019s a pampered, privileged, angry, young socialist-communist,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson says the fa\u00e7ade is cracking around New York\u2019s radical socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and the revelations aren\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve talked before about the front runner in the New York mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani,\u201d he reminded viewers, setting the stage for what he described as a necessary unmasking.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s history of openly embracing Marxist ideas, Hanson argues, is not some youthful indiscretion but a core part of his politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019ve mentioned before that he talked about seizing the means of production, which comes out right out of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels \u2018Das Kapital,\u2019 \u2018The Communist Manifesto.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an approach that extends beyond slogans.<\/p>\n

Hanson pointed to a pattern of denying inconvenient truths, like Mamdani\u2019s insistence he never supported defunding the police\u2026.even with clear evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s the question of targeted taxation. Mamdani\u2019s proposal to focus tax hikes specifically on \u201cWhiter\u201d neighborhoods isn\u2019t just about class\u2026.it\u2019s about exploiting racial division, Hanson says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked about going into richer and Whiter areas and taxing them specifically at a higher rate,\u201d he explained, pointing out the selective language that conveniently skipped over the fact that Indian Americans\u2026.like Mamdani\u2019s own family\u2026.are statistically among the nation\u2019s highest earners.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t say, in other words, richer and Indian American. He just use the word white because he was trying to cater himself to the African-American vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson says the fa\u00e7ade is cracking around New York\u2019s radical socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and the revelations aren\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n

He lays out a portrait of a candidate who, despite a carefully managed public image, has a record steeped in hard-left\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/QE51rQv6XL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

But Hanson said that because Mamdani grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was never actually forced to go out and get a job or go through audits.<\/p>\n

This has allowed Mamdani\u2019s extremist past to remain out of the public, until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an extensive left wing record and now that he\u2019s in the public realm, everything is starting to come out.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s father had extremist views which were clearly passed on Zohran.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis father was in a, discussion of, you know, a conference discussion and said that Adolf Hitler\u2019s idea for the final solution and many of his, policies toward the Jews came from Abraham Lincoln, the way Lincoln supposedly created or treated Indians on reservations.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s\u2014that\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

That silver-spoon background, Hanson argues, has insulated Mamdani from facing the consequences of these ideas.<\/p>\n

He has never needed to find a job or face public scrutiny.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an extensive left wing record and now that he’s in the public realm, everything is starting to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/d0WjPLZ8FR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

But ideology wasn\u2019t the only problem.<\/p>\n

Hanson turned to an incident that he argued should alarm any voter: Mamdani\u2019s defense of Islamic terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an American citizen that went to Yemen, and he advocated killing Americans, and he was a terrorist.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t a controversial figure on the margins of debate\u2026.he was a known terrorist targeted by a drone strike under President Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarack Obama, when he was president, ordered a predator hit team on him and killed Awlaki in a targeted assassination. Who was that, by the way, an ISIS supporter, but he was also a U.S. citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years after that, Mamdani publicly defended him, offering an absurd rationale that Hanson dismissed outright.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now we learned in 2015, years after that Obama hit on him\u2014on this ISIS figure\u2014Mamdani was defending them and saying, basically, he turned radical because the FBI surveilled him.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The logic, he argued, simply didn\u2019t hold up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s like saying that Kash Patel turned radical because the FBI surveil him. People don\u2019t go become terrorist kingpins because the American FBI thinks you\u2019re a person of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

But ideology wasn\u2019t the only problem.<\/p>\n

Hanson turned to an incident that he argued should alarm any voter: Mamdani\u2019s defense of Islamic terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an American citizen that went to Yemen, and he advocated killing Americans, and he was a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

This\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/f8zxh7fWrU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Hanson also questioned Mamdani\u2019s personal credibility, describing a pattern that, to him, reveals something deeper about the candidate\u2019s approach to politics.<\/p>\n

He EXPOSED Mamdani for trying to claim African American identity on college applications to gain an edge, despite having no connection to that experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very, sensitive about the African-American and Latino vote, which I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to win,\u201d Hanson noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now we learned that when he applied to college, to Bowdoin, and I think further to graduate school\u2014in which he was not admitted, he claimed that he was an African American.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just a one-off misrepresentation, Hanson suggested, but part of a larger disconnect between public messaging and private behavior.<\/p>\n

It was, in Hanson\u2019s view, part of a pattern he\u2019d seen many times in academia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs someone who was in academia for three decades, I used to have students that were from North Africa, Egypt or Morocco or Algeria, but were not African American. That is, they were not Blacks, and they tried that trick and they were not successful. Neither was Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

What bothered him most wasn\u2019t just the strategy but the hypocrisy of someone willing to lecture Americans about inequality while privately trying to benefit from the very system he criticizes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut imagine he\u2019s giving lectures, moral lectures, sanctimonious lectures, self-righteous lectures about how unequal the United States is,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then yet he tries to mimic or pass on a Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill-like fraud that he\u2019s African American, that he\u2019s a Black African, just because his parents who were Indian and immigrants to Uganda, and were one of the 1% elite in that country\u2014he\u2019s now claiming that he should he should have had special\u2014I shouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s now claiming, he claimed that he should have had special preference in admissions because he was Black.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hanson also questioned Mamdani\u2019s personal credibility, describing a pattern that, to him, reveals something deeper about the candidate\u2019s approach to politics.<\/p>\n

He EXPOSED Mamdani for trying to claim African American identity on college applications to gain an edge, despite having\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Bz00jAoo2R<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

With the election fast approaching, Hanson dropped a stunning prediction: these revelations are just the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou add all of this up, and I guarantee you more will come out every day because he\u2019s a pampered, privileged, angry, young socialist-communist.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

He painted a picture of a candidate whose carefully managed image can\u2019t hide the reality of a life with no debt, no real-world experience, and a sprawling public record waiting to be examined.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had no experience. He\u2019s out of debt and he has a long social media record.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the end, Hanson offered less of a conclusion than a question\u2026.one he admitted he didn\u2019t know how to answer himself.<\/p>\n

The question itself was a testament to the times we are living in.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, the only question that I have for you, the audience and me, because I\u2019m genuinely puzzled about it, the more that we hear that he\u2019s a lunatic and unhinged and anti-American and socialist, does that help him or does that hurt him, given the demographics of New York?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With the election fast approaching, Hanson dropped a stunning prediction: these revelations are just the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou add all of this up, and I guarantee you more will come out every day because he’s a pampered, privileged, angry, young socialist-communist.\u201d<\/p>\n

He painted a picture\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/xQn7s2ad1O<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the full episode of the @DailySignal<\/a> herehttps:\/\/t.co\/g7bJBWfbTG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) July 10, 2025<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/11\/2025 – 12:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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