Sensible centrists are occasionally allowed to quote from a National Review article. Like this one: “Mamdani’s Commie Housing Official Is a Lunatic,” posted on 1.7.25.
“If Cea Weaver did not exist, one would be hard-pressed to invent her. Weaver seems to have been designed in a laboratory to work in the Ideological Compliance Department of the East German Kommunale Wohnungsverwaltung, but, as the result of an unfortunate accident with a time machine, ended up overseeing housing policy in the most important city in the United States.
“Weaver believes that ‘rent control is a perfect solution to everything’ — not least because it is an ‘effective way to shrink the value of real estate.’ She considers that ‘private property is a weapon of white supremacy,’ she believes that ‘home ownership is racist,’ and she holds that the highest aim of government ought to be to ‘impoverish the *white* middle class.’
“And they say that ambition is dead in America!”
“In Weaver’s estimation, the United States ‘built wealth for white people through genocide, slavery, stolen land & labor,’ ‘white supremacy built the north and the south,’ and the most reasonable response to these presuppositions is to ‘endorse a no–more–white–men in office platform.’
I’m sorry but the NR‘s closing paragraph is very well-phrased:
“Unwilling to limit her racism to the temporal realm, Weaver also enjoys fantasizing about her enemies roasting in the afterlife. ‘I wish I believed in God,’ she declared in 2019, ‘so I could believe that all men who take credit for women’s work and all white men who take credit for the work of women of color would one day burn.’
“Perhaps this was what Mayor Mamdani was referring to when, in his inaugural address, he promised ‘the warmth of collectivism‘?”