The DSA is exploiting Mamdanis mayoralty for a stealth revolution

For all his smiling charms, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is the willing tool of a movement running a very old and ugly playbook — radicals not only determined to take over the Democratic Party, but to wield state power, in this case the government of New York City, as a Democratic Socialist tool.Start with his Office of Community Engagement — which, the city learned last week, is already costing taxpayers $53 million, a full 10 times the advertised level.The OCE is a DSA agitprop shop, pure and simple, devoted to campaigning for political issues the radicals deem important, such as producing an illusion of massive public support for the Rent Guidelines Board final rent-freeze vote at month’s end.The fix is in at the RGB, as the mayor has named most of its members, including the supposed landlord representatives, yet the OCE is recruiting an audience to stage on a play of “the people demanding justice” and getting it, thanks to the Democratic Socialist mayor.And the public at large is paying for the DSA show.Mind you, the DSA’s not limiting itself to the Soviet playbook: It’s training up its own paramilitary wing, the Red Rabbits — a street-fighting force strongly reminiscent of the Sturmabteilung, the “brownshirts” of the 1920s Nazi party.But most of its efforts in the city are more Soviet-style, as witness Mamdani’s housing plan, which quite literally aims to expropriate the property of his class enemies — in this case, mom-and-pop property owners — and hand their buildings over to nonprofits run by the politically connected. The result, as City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino quite rightly points out, would be a real-estate portfolio potentially worth billions concentrated in the hands of DSA allies.Assets that will remain in the movement’s hands even if it loses the next election.No matter that nonprofit-run housing has failed for decades to deliver for tenants; it’s a success for the nonprofits themselves, and those who run them.Heck, the DSA...