{"id":2912,"date":"2026-06-25T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:07:14","slug":"miranda-devine-bruce-blakeman-is-the-antidote-to-the-anti-american-poison-emanating-from-albany-and-city-hall-but-voters-must-hit-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: Bruce Blakeman is the antidote to the anti-American poison emanating from Albany and City Hall — but voters must hit the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once we\u2019re all done setting our hair on fire and wringing our hands about the latest crop of anti-American, Jew-hating, Communist revolutionaries who\u2019ve just grabbed political power, let\u2019s look at the upside.<\/p>\n

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Hardly anybody voted for them.<\/p>\n

And they give Republicans a golden opportunity \u2014 if the party can get its act together, and if conservatives and sensible centrists can be persuaded to get off their couches and actually vote \u2014 and vote strategically.<\/p>\n

No more sitting on the fence. <\/p>\n

In the bid to save New York \u2014 and the nation \u2014 apathy is as much the enemy as the DSA, for Democrats and Republicans alike.<\/p>\n

This is the chance for New Yorkers to get behind the underestimated gem running for governor, Bruce Blakeman. <\/p>\n

He is the antidote to the anti-American poison emanating from Albany and City Hall.<\/p>\n

But first to apathy.<\/p>\n

The three Democratic Socialists of America candidates endorsed by Mayor Mamdani received a grand total of 125,000 votes, representing 3 percent of all registered Democrats in New York City.<\/p>\n

Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13), a community organizer born in the Dominican Republic who wipes her ass with the American flag, will ride into Washington, DC, with fewer than 33,000 votes, representing less than 9 percent of eligible registered Democrats in that district.<\/p>\n

That would barely fill Yankee Stadium. <\/p>\n

Only 18 percent of Democrats in NY-13 even bothered to turn out to vote in the primaries Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a small sampling<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s the same for Texas native Claire Valdez (NY-7), a union organizer who wants to grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens. <\/p>\n

She netted a measly 36,961 votes \u2014 or 10 percent of eligible votes.<\/p>\n

Brad Lander (a longtime DSA member who nominally quit the faction but for all intents and purposes is DSA), the Missouri-born former progressive former NYC comptroller, Mamdani enabler and self-loathing \u201cAs a Jew\u201d Jew, did the best of the three but still only eked out a paltry 55,000 votes to knock off Rep. Dan Goldman in the high-profile Manhattan and Brooklyn race.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s less than 16 percent of eligible registered Democrats. <\/p>\n

The rest just stayed home.<\/p>\n

The DSA victory is a triumph of community organizing, not of grassroots populism.<\/p>\n

These people aren\u2019t even from the communities they organize. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not even from New York. <\/p>\n

Two of them, including Chevalier and Uganda-born elitist Mamdani, weren\u2019t born in this country.<\/p>\n

No, this isn\u2019t about \u201cauthenticity\u201d or \u201cconviction\u201d or a \u201cmovement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every week<\/em>, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on \u2018Pod Force One.\u2019 Subscribe here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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