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Commentary By John Ketcham

If You Don’t Bother to Vote, You Can’t Complain About Mamdani as Mayor

Governance, Cities New York, New York City, NYC Mayoral Election 2025

With early voting less than a month away in the city’s messiest mayoral election in decades, plenty of New Yorkers feel like throwing up their hands.

Disillusion is understandable, but common-sense voters can’t afford to sit this one out.

The side that turns out wins.

The extreme left is winning because it recognizes the power of organizing.

“To be an unorganized socialist is a contradiction in terms,” Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani said after winning his Assembly seat in 2020.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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