An embittered Chris Cuomo railed against the “radical left” and declared the Democratic party “dead” following his brother Andrew Cuomo’s loss in the New York City mayoral primary.
The younger Cuomo fumed about “extremism” during a Wednesday night monologue on his NewsNation show, claiming that Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning election win was a sign that Democrats are in “MAGA mode.”
It was not Mamdani’s promise to combat the cost of living crisis that won over voters, but bigotry on the left, according to the news anchor.
“In the same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you’re seeing an identical dynamic on the Left with prejudices, like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews,” he explained. “For the Right, it’s migrants. And for the Left, it’s Jews. It’s fundamentalist Christians dominating the Right, and fundamentalist Islamists making headway on the Left. I know that doesn’t sound like Democrats, but the party is dead. What it will be reborn as we will see.”
Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim to be elected mayor of New York and has faced an onslaught of Islamophobia attacks since his win, has been forced to defend himself against accusations of antisemitism over his criticism of Israel and for refusing to denounce the pro-Palestinian slogan “globalize the intifada.”
