Mamdani is twisting the law to socialist limits and youre his next target

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is abusing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the US Constitution and fundamental fairness. If you’re not a landlord, you may think this doesn’t affect you — but think again.Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in this socialist mayor’s crosshairs.He ignores the limits of government power and his duty to govern for all the people.As evidence of the danger ahead, see Mamdani’s new Office of Worker Power, announced on Labor Day.It’s a first-in-the-nation municipal initiative to push unionization on private-sector workers — and to launch labor-law investigations of nonunionized workplaces, whether there have been complaints or not.Businesses large and small should take a close look at the mayor’s anti-landlord agenda, because a similar playbook is being prepped for them.Mamdani unveiled his Block by Block housing initiative on May 26, calling it a “sweeping blueprint to tackle New York City’s deepening housing crisis.”  But most of the “plan” called for hyper-aggressive code enforcement against “negligent” property owners.Weeks later, Hizzoner and his newly created Office of Mass Engagement — his taxpayer-funded $53 million staff of information ministers — launched his “Talk to Tenants” campaign, sending armies of Democratic Socialists of America volunteers door to door, mobilizing tenants to organize against their landlords.Says Office of Mass Engagement head Tascha Van Auken, “By knocking on doors and connecting tenants with organizing resources, we’re helping New Yorkers build the collective power to hold negligent landlords accountable.” And elect more Democratic Socialists, of course.This is the DSA version of Tammany Hall, the political machine that saw Boss Tweed turn the city’s police and fire departments into political armies.It was illegal then, and it’s still wrong today: Tweed was convicted of stea...