New York City voters chose Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and the city’s first Muslim mayor. NYC is the nation’s most populous city, scarred by the 9/11 Islamic terror attack, and now led by a politician whose record on Israel and Hamas is more than alarming.

In the campaign’s closing weeks, Mamdani refused to say Hamas should disarm and even doubled down on a vow to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he visited New York. That’s not normal city-business chatter. They’re worldview markers. When the keys of America’s financial and media capital are handed to a movement openly hostile to God and the Constitution, there are significant prophetic consequences for America.

Six years ago, this column warned that the Democratic Party was fast identifying as a socialist party. That wasn’t hyperbole; it was pattern recognition. The playbook is classic Hegelian drift: thesis (constitutional republic and markets), antithesis (state-managed “equity”), synthesis (soft-command economics with hard cultural enforcement). Read the Communist Manifesto, and you see the blueprint that socialism keeps walking toward: abolish private property, centralize credit and transport, replace eternal truths with ideology, and abolish religion.

When government becomes god, liberty withers, people lose the right to be wrong, and the state claims the authority to make you “right.” America’s promise is the opposite: God-given rights, limited government, and a civil society strong enough to correct itself without crushing dissent.

There’s also a documented ideological ecosystem behind the curtain. In 2007, during the Dallas Holy Land Foundation terror trial, prosecutors introduced the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Explanatory Memorandum,” which described a “Civilization-Jihadist process” to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within,” listing US fronts to embed and influence. While not every Muslim in public life is an Islamist, every responsible citizen should know the doctrine and the networks that seek leverage inside free societies to exploit liberty and replace it with tyranny.

New York’s choice matters because influence radiates from that city into finance, media, academia, and policy. Put a movement hostile to Israel, religious liberty, and market freedom at the helm, and the shockwaves run national in a hurry.

For example, Democrats logged big nights in Virginia and New Jersey. California voters advanced a redistricting measure favored by the socialist left—momentum that pushes America further toward statism. Add the steady drumbeat of violent language from national Democratic figures, and you have a convergence point: radical socialism using the ballot and promoting violence to gain the bureaucracy, the classroom, the justice system, and the church.

Socialism is communism with better branding, and communism banishes faith by design. America is rushing toward a danger zone where abandoning the God-honoring principles that grounded our liberty will carry prophetic consequences.

Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Time to stand, speak truth, and defend the Republic while we still can.

Sources

AP: Mamdani elected NYC mayor. (AP News)

AJC statement on Mamdani’s rhetoric. (AJC)

Times of Israel: Mamdani declines to say Hamas should lay down arms; vows to arrest Netanyahu. (The Times of Israel)

Guardian live: Democrats notch wins in VA/NJ; California redistricting measure noted. (The Guardian)

Fox News live: National 2025 results roundup (NYC, VA). (Fox News)

Investigative Project—Explanatory Memorandum (Muslim Brotherhood, 1991). (The Investigative Project on Terrorism)

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On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, on MSNBC’s The Briefing, host Jen Psaki, former Biden White House Press Secretary, teed up Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) with a question that was more political statement than journalism.

Psaki flatly declared that President Trump was “lining his pockets” on foreign policy dealings and then asked Pelosi how that “split screen” made her feel. That’s not a neutral question. It’s a loaded premise designed to generate a headline.

When the assumption of guilt is baked into the question, the politician doesn’t have to prove anything. They just ride the wave. This is how the media manipulates the frame, pushing narratives while pretending to report the news.

Pelosi didn’t hesitate to swing for the fences. She called President Trump “a grifter,” sneering, “You wonder why the American people tolerate a grifter like this in the White House.” She added, “and his grifter family,” implying corruption without offering a shred of proof in that moment.

That kind of language isn’t debate—it’s defamation by innuendo. It continues to fan the flames of incitement that the Democrats have been doing with impunity.

What made it worse was Psaki’s non-response: no pushback, no follow-up, just a nod. That’s how agenda-driven questions turn into amplified attacks. It’s a well-rehearsed dance between activist journalists and political partisans. The message: plant the seed, let it spread.

Then Pelosi tried to rewrite history. She claimed that when Democrats won in 2006, their “motto” was “Drain the Swamp,” and that Trump “stole that saying from us.” An investigation of her claim revealed that her statement was flat-out false. While she used the phrase in passing in 2006, there’s no record of it as a Democratic campaign slogan or official party motto.

“Drain the Swamp” has been used by both political parties for decades, long before either Pelosi or Trump used it. Her statement was designed to elevate her party as the virtuous originators and paint Trump as the political thief. But the facts don’t back her up. It’s revisionist theater, plain and simple. This entire exchange is a masterclass in narrative manufacturing.

A former Democratic Party press secretary acting as a news authority sets the frame. A career politician fills in the outrage. A compliant media outlet packages it as fact. And the American public is left with a story that sounds legitimate but isn’t grounded in truth.

This is how trust erodes. When journalists stop asking real questions and politicians start rewriting history, the line between fact and fiction disappears. And a misinformed public is exactly what propagandists count on.

As is written in Proverbs 19:9, “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.” 

In our Constitutional Republic, the one way to deal with a false witness in high office is to vote them and their party out of office. And that is the public’s leverage, but will we use it?

Inform yourself and others so that deception is exposed.

Sources:

Breitbart — “Pelosi: ‘You Wonder Why the American People Tolerate a Grifter like This in the White House?’” (October 14, 2025)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/14/pelosi-you-wonder-why-the-american-people-tolerate-a-grifter-like-this-in-the-white-house/

Deseret News — “Time to drain GOP ‘swamp,’ Pelosi says” (October 7, 2006)
https://www.deseret.com/2006/10/7/19978239/time-to-drain-gop-swamp-pelosi-says

Wikipedia — “Drain the swamp” historical usage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drain_the_swamp