CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY FEBRUARY 3, 2026
LET’S CHECK IN TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NEW YORK CITY UNDER THE DEMOCRAT-SOCIALIST (SOME SAY COMMUNIST) MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI. DO YOU CARE?
I USED TO GO TO NEW YORK EVERY WEEK FOR TEN YEARS WHILE I WAS ON FOX NEWS. IT WAS A DIFFERENT CITY THEN. TODAY UNDER MAMDANI, AT LEAST 14 PEOPLE HAVE FROZEN TO DEATH WHILE LIVING ON THE STREETS DURING SUB FREEZING TEMPERATURES BECAUSE THE MAYOR HAS CALLED INVOLUNTARY REMOVAL OF THE HOMELESS A “LAST RESORT.”
WHILE PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THE STREETS, TRASH IS PILING UP AND TRAFFIC SNARLS. THE TRASH IN SOME PLACES IS EIGHT FEET HIGH AND INFESTED WITH RATS. NOT SURPRISINGLY, THERE IS NO TRASH OR SNOW AT THE MAYOR’S RESIDENCE, GRACIE MANSION. EVEN SOME OF THE MAYOR’S SUPPPORTERS ARE CRITICIZING HIM. THE NEW YORK POST, TITLED A FRONT PAGE STORY “THE CITY THAT NEVER SWEEPS.”
MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR MAMDANI, BELIEVING SOCIALISM IS BETTER THAN CAPITALISM ARE EXPERIENCING THAT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN PRACTICE AND NO LONGER IN THEORY. THEY’LL GET FOUR YEARS OF IT IN WHAT USED TO BE CALLED FUN CITY. NOT ANYMORE. I’M CAL THOMAS.
