America Dodged a Bullet Called ‘Regime Change.’ The Next Bullet’s Named ‘Mamdani’

The next Obama is here: His name is Zohran Mamdani, the likely next mayor of New York City. He’s a handsome, charismatic, gifted politician — Barack Obama with a beard, Bill Clinton with a tan.

Mamdani appeals to the young, disgruntled, and poorly educated. He gets them excited and fills them with vague, spurious hope. He also helps white elites and self-hating Jews feel virtuous and noble. So he’s going places.

He just jumped from utter obscurity to being the future Democrat Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. The only reason we don’t need to worry about him running for president is the fact that was born in Uganda. So he isn’t eligible — or won’t be until some federal judge declares that part of the Constitution unconstitutional.

Laugh all you want at Mamdani’s foreign name, forgetting that Barack Obama’s middle name is “Hussein.” Republicans were too polite to mention it.

Laugh Now

Give Mamdani a funny nickname such as “the Ayatollah,” if you wish — that will only make country club Republicans’ domineering wives squeamish and get you labeled a bigot by our media — up to and including the producers at Fox News. For decades, Obama attended a black Marxist “church,” whose pastor preached “God d**n America.” Did John McCain make an issue of that in the 2008 race? He was too much of a gentleman (rather than a patriot).

Laugh at Mamdani’s crackpot Venezuelan socialist policies, aimed to appeal to shoplifters and squatters. Obama shifted America permanently 30 degrees to the Left, and for all their big talk Republicans have done nothing to reverse it. Obamacare turned out to be far more radical than the plan that got Hillary Clinton laughed off stages back in the ’90s, but now we’re stuck with it forever. We’re also stuck with same-sex marriage, which unleashed the transgender insanity currently poisoning and sterilizing kids, ripping up parental rights, and destroying women’s sports.

How did we end up with a president like Obama, anyway — apart from the Republicans nominating a lackluster warmonger who wanted increased immigration?

Stupid Wars Cause Stupid Election Results

Obama’s election was virtually guaranteed by President George W. Bush’s stupid war, his regime-change adventure in Iraq that was based on fake intelligence (which killed or crippled thousands of Americans and wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars while making Iraq even worse than it had been under Saddam Hussein). No Republican was going to win while the effort to bomb Iraq until it turned into New Hampshire was underway and our soldiers were getting blown up by IEDs in the process.

As I reported in yesterday’s Brew, we apparently came within a hair’s breadth of launching a similarly doomed regime-change war against Iran, again based on false intelligence. We must offer prayers of thanks that President Trump was informed of the fake intel in time to change course before escalating the war.

That’s a miracle on the order of the literal bullets Trump himself has had to dodge, and reminds me of Otto von Bismarck’s nasty quip that God’s providence “protects idiots, drunkards, children … and the United States of America.”

If the Iraq War gave us President Obama, it was another foolish war sold to us with falsehoods that produced Zohran Mamdani: America’s war in Vietnam. No, Mamdani wasn’t alive during that war. But its hideous futility and the ever-present threat of conscription it posed to young American men radicalized a generation.

Before Vietnam, most young people linked Marxism with famines, Soviet tanks, and the Berlin Wall. Using antiwar sentiment as a wedge, the New Left sold radical ideology to the youth under the banner of “peace,” along with “sex and drugs and rock and roll.” Our fight to stop Communism half a world away ironically spread variants of that ideology through almost every American college campus. It’s now wedged in faculty lounges like the one at Columbia University, where Mamdani’s father teaches “post-colonial studies.” That was a young Obama’s major, a field invented in the ferment of the antiwar movement in the 1960s.

If President Trump were to launch a war of choice that lasted more than a few short days, it would swallow his presidency whole. Say goodbye to deportations, to cleaning out the Deep State, to fixing election fraud; all the energy of his administration would be devoted first to waging the war, then to fending off the incessant domestic attacks from the Left and the media. Every domestic priority would be shoved to the back of the stove, as it was during George W. Bush’s administration.

We Don’t Have Another Stupid War in Us

America is far weaker, more divided, and insecure than it was in 1965 or 2003. We don’t have the strength to endure another stupid war or the Leftist blowback it would bring. The midterm elections and the next presidential election would turn into referendums on that war instead of turning on winning issues that actually matter to Americans, such as immigration.

We’d likely lose those elections, and with them the last chance to secure our country’s borders and future. We’d get another mass influx of illegals like the wave Biden admitted, along with plenty of federal judges who’d de facto let them vote. And that’s the country, folks. Kiss it goodbye.

So let your elected representatives know that the only regime change you support is right here at home. We must be America First if America is to last.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.