{"id":2454377,"date":"2025-07-01T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mamdani-is-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:33:54","slug":"mamdani-is-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mamdani-is-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Is An Attractive Minority So The Media Love Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmamdani-is-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2454377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the rise of Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City, and the media&#8217;s enthusiastic coverage of his candidacy. The author, Eddie Scarry, argues that while Mamdani is portrayed as a revolutionary figure, he is simply another leftist minority whose appeal aligns with previous media favorites. Scarry criticizes the media for their interest with Mamdani and suggests that his victory is less about innovative ideas and more about campaigning against weakened opponents,including a former governor entangled in scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani&#8217;s proposals, which include freezing rent prices and establishing government-run grocery stores, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >receive minimal national focus compared<\/a> to superficial questions about his electoral success and its implications for the Democratic Party. The article implies that the media&#8217;s adoration of a charismatic minority candidate is not novel and recalls similar instances with figures like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. Scarry expresses uncertainty about Mamdani&#8217;s potential governance or its implications for national politics but is skeptical of the media&#8217;s overly positive narrative surrounding him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hecdpm35K4Q&amp;list=RDNShecdpm35K4Q&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\">CNN\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-anti-american-but-hes-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Zohran%20Mamdani%20Is%20Anti-American.%20But%20He%E2%80%99s%20An%20Attractive%20Minority%20So%20The%20Media%20Love%20Him.&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-anti-american-but-hes-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Zohran%20Mamdani%20Is%20Anti-American.%20But%20He%E2%80%99s%20An%20Attractive%20Minority%20So%20The%20Media%20Love%20Him.&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-anti-american-but-hes-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-anti-american-but-hes-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Zohran%20Mamdani%20Is%20Anti-American.%20But%20He%E2%80%99s%20An%20Attractive%20Minority%20So%20The%20Media%20Love%20Him.&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/01\/zohran-mamdani-is-anti-american-but-hes-an-attractive-minority-so-the-media-love-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s been fun watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/somebody-tell-susan-glasser-to-sit-back-and-relax-this-time\/\" title=\"Somebody Tell Susan Glasser To Sit Back And Relax This Time\">dying news media<\/a> in recent days swoon over New York Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as if he&rsquo;s a revolutionary who just broke political party dogma. The reality is that he&rsquo;s yet another version of the same type of Democrat the media have been fawning over since as far back as Barack Obama &mdash;&nbsp;a leftist minority who happens to be attractive.<\/p>\n<p>For about the 50 billionth time, a New York Times story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/30\/us\/politics\/democrats-project-2029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this week<\/a> referred to Mamdani&rsquo;s &ldquo;surprise success&rdquo; in defeating former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the party nomination, and said Mamdani &ldquo;added fuel to the debate&rdquo; over whether Democrats have a policy problem or a messaging one. &ldquo;Did he succeed because of the audacity of his ideas,&rdquo; the Times said, &ldquo;or because of the clarity and simplicity of those phrases?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1471433558\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Or, maybe Mamdani was running for the Democrat nomination against a former governor who resigned <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/10\/heck-no-andrew-cuomo-you-dont-get-to-pull-the-cancel-culture-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after being #MeToo&rsquo;d<\/a>, a current Democrat mayor who has politically <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/01\/us-news\/trump-praises-mayor-adams-re-election-bid-and-threatens-zohran-mamdani-with-arrest-if-he-interferes-with-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aligned himself<\/a> with President Trump, and a smattering of also-rans.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&rsquo;s his secret?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the days since his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-zohran-mamdani-cuomo-mayor-primary-vote-c398b33fe7304287596d64582d326988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now-confirmed<\/a> victory, people outside of New York might have heard some of his socialist proposals &mdash;&nbsp;he wants to &ldquo;freeze&rdquo; rent prices and open government-run grocery stores &mdash; but most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daughter-of-cop-punished-by-uva-for-racist-remark-after-social-justice-protesters-harassed-doxxed-her\/\" title=\"Daughter Of Cop Punished By UVA For \u2018Racist\u2019 Remark After Social Justice Protesters Harassed, Doxxed Her\">national media attention<\/a> has been dedicated to superficial questions like, &ldquo;Did Mamdani show Democrats how to win big elections again?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A roadmap to beat Trump? How rise of Zohran Mamdani is dividing Democrats&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jun\/29\/does-zohran-mamdani-new-york-primary-victory-offer-roadmap-for-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Zohran Mamdani&rsquo;s astonishing rise is a vital lesson for Democrats&rdquo;&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-democrats-trump-rcna215007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Zohran Mamdani&rsquo;s primary win and the Democrats&rsquo; Tea Party moment&rdquo;&mdash;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/27\/1254874785\/its-been-a-minute-zohran-mamdani-democrats-tea-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it could be true that there&rsquo;s some to-be-seen national consequence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/26\/islamist-winning-nyc-mayor-primary-25-years-after-sept-11-shows-even-legal-immigration-is-a-huge-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uganda-born Muslim<\/a>, known for abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/jonny-c-224527595\/4011033749147-reporter-plays-clips-of-zohran-mamdani-faking-different-accents-over-his-career-switching-to-whatever-his-audience-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">changing his accent<\/a>, winning a race for mayor in the United States. It&rsquo;s America&rsquo;s biggest city, after all. But it&rsquo;s not like Mamdani is the first ethnic minority with a nice smile to be smothered with adulation from the media and treated like a prophet in the Democrat Party. By that measure, he&rsquo;s perfectly average.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s nothing the dying news media love more than a hyper-leftist ethnic minority who has a nice smile. To get a head start in politics, they have to do little more than get their name on the ballot and kindly chit-chat with journalists.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s it. The media will happily take it from there, churning out endless profiles on just how savvy, youthful, and appealing the leftist minority is. This is exactly how Obama, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker, as well as AOC, the Castro twins, and Raphael Warnock became household names. (To be fair, I still haven&rsquo;t quite figured out Stacey Abrams.)<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t always work out. Obama at least had a vision, and he was elected president twice. Kamala had nothing and lost twice.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Mamdani wins the general election, I have no idea how he&rsquo;ll govern or what it might mean for the Democrats on a national level. But there&rsquo;s nothing fresh about an anti-American minority adored by the media.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit 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