{"id":625,"date":"2026-05-28T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:08:10","slug":"miranda-devine-history-shows-that-mamdanis-dangerous-plan-to-seize-property-from-landlords-only-leads-to-misery-and-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: History shows that Mamdani’s dangerous plan to seize property from landlords only leads to misery and tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zohran Mamdani\u2019s promise to seize the properties of landlords he deems unworthy should send a chill down the spine of every New Yorker.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers,\u201d the socialist mayor told a cheering crowd of leftists in Brooklyn Tuesday when he unveiled his \u201cblock by block\u201d housing plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards [including] community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wherever in history his Marxist prescriptions have been applied, misery and tyranny follow \u2014 from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, 100 million deaths were caused by communist regimes in the 20th century alone.<\/p>\n

This is a lesson the 34-year-old nepo baby appears to have missed \u2014 or doesn\u2019t care to heed because the revolution is never about improving the lot of the downtrodden. It\u2019s about seizing power.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, having won office on the Democratic Socialists of America ticket, told us what he thought of America in his inaugural address: \u201cWe will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

By collectivism, he means the state must seize the means of production \u2014 the factories, land, businesses, property and capital that generate wealth. <\/p>\n

This requires total economic control, which is impossible without total social control. <\/p>\n

The result is always one-party rule, secret police, censorship and tyranny.<\/p>\n

Creating misery<\/h2>\n

In his victory speech, Mamdani singled out non-Western immigrants for praise: \u201cI speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.\u201d<\/p>\n

He gave a special shout-out to neighborhoods with a heavy Muslim presence: \u201cEvery New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, knows that this city is your city, and this democracy is yours, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, the Ugandan-born Muslim signaled from Day\u20091 that his mayoralty would elevate only people like him \u2014 recent arrivals from countries plagued by failed socialist policies, weak institutions, minimal property rights and a breakdown in law and order.<\/p>\n

Ironically, while he claims to champion the refugees of failed collectivism, he works to recreate those same miserable conditions in New York.<\/p>\n

The plight of hardworking fourth-generation New Yorker Tom Diana, 64, is a salutary example of how the little guy gets screwed under the radical-left policies that have accumulated in this city over the past decade.<\/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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