Kirk warns ‘Mamdani effect’ metastasizing in the Democratic Party with ‘grievance-based politics’
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk sounded the alarm on Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor, Friday, and why young people need to choose optimism over “grievance-based politics.”
Kirk joined “Fox & Friends” where he was asked about Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan who has been tying himself to Mamdani, and what a socialist mayor in New York City would mean for the Democratic Party.
“The Mamdani effect is going to metastasize in the Democrat Party. Now, how successful it will be in a general election, I don’t know, I still have my skepticism. But the Mamdani effect is grievance-based politics, playing into people’s bitterness, and also playing into the economic disorder that Biden left us,” Kirk said.
“President Trump is going to fix this, and he is aiming to fix this,” Kirk continued. “But understand, for the younger voters that I represent and the younger voters that delivered the White House for President Trump, they can’t afford homes, they’re increasingly renting, they’re not getting married, they’re not having children, so there are two ways this can go.”
Kirk said young people can either take an “optimistic, patriotic vision like President Trump is offering,” or a “very dark and sinister vision – one that is anti-Western, anti-American, anti-civilization.” He believes far-left Democrats like Mamdani have embraced the latter.
