Captured on the New York Post cover, Maga allies respond to Democrats’ election sweep with accusations and fury
Hopes of a composed and level-headed rightwing reaction to the Democrats’ across-the-board electoral success were unceremoniously dashed as leading Maga figures spewed unrestrained vitriol at their victorious opponents.
Particular Republican fury was reserved for Zohran Mamdani’s emphatic election as mayor of New York, a result that provoked a luridly provocative front page on the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post.
The tabloid, a fervent backer of Donald Trump, greeted the result with headline “The Red Apple” illustrated by a picture of the face of Mamdani – a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” – attached to an animated red suit and holding a hammer and sickle above his head to signify his alleged communist sympathies.
A sub-heading read: “On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayor.”
