Why Trumps Mamdani the Commie tag will stick despite the medias cover operation

Zohran Mamdani wants to have his cake — freshly baked at his local government-run grocery store — and eat it, too.The 33-year-old son of a Columbia professor and an acclaimed filmmaker has made the transition from unknown state assemblyman to New York City mayoral frontrunner by riding a wave of enthusiasm for his unapologetic, far-left agenda.But now that he has to close the deal in a general election, he’s desperately trying to soften his stances.After Mamdani’s triumph last week, President Donald Trump marveled “It’s finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line” — then deemed the political wunderkind a “100% Communist Lunatic.”Mamdani objected to the label during a Sunday morning interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, to whom he insisted he is merely “fighting” for “working people.”“When we talk about my politics, I call myself a democrat socialist,” he added.And as a matter of course, the pseudoscientific professional fact-checking industry erected to assist the Democratic Party swung into motion to back him up.“Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathizers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans.It is a red scare tactic that has existed in US politics for decades,” asserted PolitiFact under the headline “Zohran Mamdani is favored to win NYC mayoral primary.

Claims he’s a communist are False.”Rolling Stone slobbered over Mamdani’s interview with Welker, lauding him for having confronted “Trump’s misinformation.”Al-Jazeera, the Qatari-owned propaganda factory with a strong interest in Mamdani’s success given his virulently anti-Israel views, reprinted PolitiFact’s thinly veiled contribution to his campaign.Unfortunately for Mamdani and his media allies, there aren’t enough semantic tricks in existence to make up for his own damning words.PolitiFact insists that “Mamdani’s platform is not akin to communism, a system of government which calls for government tak...