Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell just got exposed for this jaw-dropping betrayal that handed New York City to a socialist
New York City just elected its first socialist mayor in decades.
The Big Apple's downfall didn't happen overnight.
And Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell just got exposed for this jaw-dropping betrayal that handed New York City to a socialist.
Democrats celebrate as foreign-born socialist takes control of America's largest city
New York City made history Tuesday night when voters elected 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani as the city's next mayor.¹
The Uganda-born Democratic Socialist defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa in a race that drew national attention.²
Mamdani will become New York's first Muslim mayor, its youngest mayor in over a century, and its first leader born outside the United States.³
President Donald Trump spent months warning voters about Mamdani, calling him a communist and threatening to withhold federal funds from the city if he won.⁴
Those warnings fell on deaf ears as Mamdani rode a wave of support from young voters concerned with economic issues and the uni-party establishment’s America Last focus to victory.
But it wasn’t just young voters, immigrant communities helped aid his victory.
Exit polls revealed the stark reality of how Mamdani won.
Foreign-born voters and minority communities delivered his margin of victory while white voters backed Cuomo by 14 points.⁵
Asian voters favored Mamdani by 4 points, Black voters by 26 points, and Hispanic voters by 20 points.⁶
GOP establishment leaders blocked immigration reform when it mattered most
This disaster was completely avoidable.
President Trump tried to cut legal immigration during his first term to prevent exactly this scenario from unfolding.
But Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell stabbed him in the back when he needed them most.
The RAISE Act would have halved legal immigration, ended the Diversity Visa lottery, slashed extended family immigration categories, capped refugees at 50,000 annually, and moved to a merit-based points system.⁷
Trump publicly endorsed the bill and held a White House event with Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue to promote it.⁸
McConnell never brought it to the Senate floor for a vote.
The House companion bill stalled in committee under Speaker Ryan's leadership.⁹
Ryan did allow a vote on the Securing America's Future Act, which would have killed the Diversity Visa and tightened family-based immigration categories.¹⁰
That bill failed 193-231 as Republican leadership splintered and pushed a watered-down "compromise" that also crashed.¹¹
Ryan's compromise bill went down in flames 121-301 after conservative Republicans refused to support another establishment sellout.¹²
After that humiliating defeat, House GOP leadership gave up entirely on immigration reform.
Chamber of Commerce RINOs chose donors over country
Ryan and McConnell weren't stupid.
They knew exactly what they were doing when they killed Trump's immigration reforms.
These globalist stooges chose Chamber of Commerce donors and business lobby money over the future of American cities.
Trump warned them that mass immigration was changing the political landscape of major urban areas.
They dismissed his concerns as "divisive" and "politically risky."
Now New York City has a socialist mayor who wants to freeze rents, provide free buses, open government-run grocery stores, and raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for it all.¹³
Mamdani ran on an explicitly anti-capitalist platform that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago.
He quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech and promised "the most ambitious agenda" since Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia nearly 100 years ago.¹⁴
This is what happens when establishment Republicans prioritize cheap labor for their donors over the national interest.
Millions of legal immigrants flooded into cities like New York during Trump's first term because Ryan and McConnell refused to act.
Those immigrants formed new voting blocs that now anchor the Left's power in urban America.
The immigration time bomb establishment Republicans refused to defuse
Trump understood that legal immigration posed just as much danger as illegal immigration to the Republican coalition.
The RAISE Act would have reduced green cards from over 1 million annually to about 500,000.¹⁵
It would have eliminated pathways for siblings and adult children of U.S. citizens to sponsor family members.¹⁶
Those provisions would have prevented exactly the kind of chain migration that built Mamdani's voter base.
But Ryan and McConnell sat on their hands while the demographic transformation of American cities accelerated.
They cared more about maintaining relationships with the business lobby than saving cities from socialist takeover.
South Asian voter turnout in New York City's primary increased by 40% compared to 2021 according to research firm L2.¹⁷
Those voters overwhelmingly backed Mamdani and delivered him the win over Cuomo.
Neighborhoods like Jackson Heights, Washington Heights, and Parkchester saw massive turnout from multi-generational immigrant households.¹⁸
Nearly one in five voters who registered after the June primary showed up during early voting.¹⁹
This is the new electorate that Ryan and McConnell helped create by blocking immigration reform.
RINO Republican leaders helped surrender America's largest city without firing a shot.
They smiled politely while Trump fought to save the country from this exact fate.
Now everyone will spend the next four years watching a socialist mayor implement his radical agenda in New York City.
They have Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to thank for helping make it possible.
And of course, politicians of their same ilk continue to focus on foreign politics and forever wars when folks like Mamdani, whose policies will be a nightmare, at least told NYC voters that they were his priority.
¹ Keren Carrión, "Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race," NPR, November 5, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase), Twitter post, November 5, 2025.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ "Democratic Wall of Opposition to Immigration Reform in the Trump Era," Federation for American Immigration Reform, May 13, 2024.
⁸ "RAISE Act," Wikipedia, accessed November 6, 2025.
⁹ "Democratic Wall of Opposition to Immigration Reform in the Trump Era," Federation for American Immigration Reform, May 13, 2024.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ Keren Carrión, "Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race," NPR, November 5, 2025.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ "RAISE Act," Wikipedia, accessed November 6, 2025.
¹⁶ Ibid.
¹⁷ Beatrice Jin, "Zohran Mamdani makes history — and strikes a chord among Muslims, South Asians," ABC News, November 5, 2025.
¹⁸ Haidee Chu, "4 Early Voting Takeaways in NYC, By The Numbers," THE CITY, November 2, 2025.
¹⁹ Ibid.
