Michael Goodwin: Kathy Hochul will never satisfy Mamdanis far-left crew and yet she keeps appeasing them

The political threats aimed at Gov.Hochul by mad-dog leftists are almost enough to make you feel sorry for her.

Almost.The hitch is that Hochul has only herself to blame.She ignored the warning not to feed the alligators.Instead, she foolishly assumed Mayor Mamdani and his ravenous crew of radicals would be satisfied when she gave them billions of taxpayer dollars for their Socialist agenda.Chomp, chomp, but that only whetted the alligators’ appetite for more, and now the governor is on the menu.“She knows we’re coming for her,” declared a boastful Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the city wing of the Democratic Socialists of America.A comrade who runs the DSA political team, Osman Chaudhary, even claimed that “we have a Democratic Socialist mandate in New York City.”After Tuesday’s results, he might have a point.

Although turnout was abysmally low in most areas, DSA candidates were superbly organized and emerged undefeated in a select group of congressional and legislative primaries against incumbent Democrats.With zero chance that a Republican will win a general election race in those districts, November will usher in a new wave of radicals for Congress and the state Legislature.In effect, the political battleground is being reshaped.Instead of left vs.

right, it is now increasingly a battle of left vs.far left.In addition to Hochul, state Attorney General Letitia James was caught off guard by the success of the Mamdani acolytes.James was cheering him on when he won the mayoralty, but was seething over Tuesday’s results.

She told CNN that “Some of the candidates that he supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic.”She seemingly doesn’t realize that blowing up the Democratic Party is the whole point.The Mamdani movement is not inter...