The 2025 election is over — except for the shouting, and there’s going to be plenty of that. In New York City, what’s left of the city’s productive residents are already packing their bags, plotting their escape to saner pastures like New Jersey, Texas, Florida, or, for the especially desperate, maybe even Buffalo.
Why? Because the city just elected an admitted socialist — a man who’s never worked an honest day in his life — as mayor. Zohran Mamdani, the latest left-wing “revolutionary” to rise from academia and activism, is about to turn the city that built American capitalism into a real-life experiment in economic self-destruction.
Mamdani, meanwhile, is doing some planning of his own — his transition. And naturally, he’s wasting no time signaling just how far left his administration will go.
On Wednesday, we learned he’s tapped none other than the former chief of FTC Chair Lina Khan to co-chair his transition team. Because of course he did. Why wait until inauguration day to start antagonizing big tech:
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) has brought on former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to co-lead his transition team, he announced Wednesday.
Khan, who led the FTC during the Biden administration, will co-chair the Mamdani transition with three other veterans of New York City Hall, the mayor-elect announced in a statement.
“New Yorkers sent a clear message this week that it’s time to build a city that working people can actually afford. I’m excited to help Zohran build a team that will usher in a new era for New York City and set a new model for Democratic governance,” Khan said in a statement.
Oh, it’s going to be a “new era,” all right — one where anyone with enough sense to see the writing on the wall will be sprinting out of New York City if they haven’t already. Within 24 hours of the election results being finalized, at least one key city figure has already thrown in the towel — and who can blame him?
New York just handed the keys to City Hall to its most radical mayor yet, and the fallout is just beginning. President Trump has reportedly taken notice and is already exploring ways to rein in the chaos before Mamdani can turn the city that never sleeps into the socialist city that never works.
Here’s where it gets dicey for Mamdani:
Khan played an integral and controversial role in former President Biden’s antitrust and consumer protection agenda. As FTC chair, she ramped up scrutiny of corporate mergers while spearheading administration efforts to defend Americans from unfair business practices, such as “junk fees” and mandatory arbitration clauses.
While progressives applauded Khan’s efforts to crack down on corporate power, the Biden administration’s aggressive stance toward Big Tech also played a role in pushing several major Silicon Valley figures toward the right.
Remember that stunning swing of Silicon Valley heavyweights toward Trump? You can thank Lina Khan for part of that — her anti-business crusade at the FTC spooked the tech world so badly they started looking to Trump as the voice of reason.
And here’s the hilarious part: in Mamdani’s incoming administration, Khan might actually end up looking like the moderate. That’s how far off the left edge the new mayor is about to take New York City.
Mamdani isn’t just shifting the Overton Window — he’s hurling it straight off the cliff. The city’s politics are about to plunge into uncharted socialist waters, somewhere past “Here Be Monsters” territory, where reason, capitalism, and common sense all go to die.
Lina Khan was born in London to Pakistani immigrant parents, and every step of her education and career has been carefully curated to cement her “progressive” bona fides. She’s the darling of the anti-capitalist crowd — a bureaucrat who’s never seen a thriving private industry she didn’t want to regulate into oblivion.
It’s almost a sure thing she’ll land a prime spot in Mamdani’s new City Hall once the transition dust settles. And if she’s the template for the kind of people he plans to surround himself with, then buckle up — New York City isn’t just in trouble; it’s in free fall.