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Explaining “MAGA for Mamdani”
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1) MAGA welcomes Mamdani to the White House
President Trump surprised supporters and detractors alike by welcoming newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani to the White House.
The Guardian reports 24th November reports 2025:
“A flurry of social media posts from Maga influencers have laid bare the disorientation felt by members of Trump’s base at the spectacle of Friday’s cordial Oval Office meeting with Mamdani, who the president previously painted as a ‘communist lunatic’. ‘Wild to allow a jihadist communist to stand behind the president’s desk in the Oval Office. Sad to see,’ wrote far-right activist Laura Loomer, one of Trump’s most fervent online backers.”
Contrary to the Guardian’s pitch above, the compromise was not one sided.
The fact that this move confused ideologues, and even extremists, among all political persuasions is an indication of its success.
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Mamdani: “My administration would be Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.”
Mamdani: “I have many disagreements with the president, and I believe that we should be relentless and pursue all avenues and all meetings that could make our city affordable for every single New Yorker. I intend to make it clear to President Trump that I will work with him on any agenda that benefits New Yorkers.”
For Mamdani to be on the record stating he will cooperate with Trump, whom he is also on the record calling a fascist, is a fundamental compromise on political doctrine.
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Journalist: “He asked about your comment calling the president a fascist and your answer was ‘President Trump and I have been clear about our positions and our views’ are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?”
Mamdani: “I’ve spoken about...”
Trump: “That’s okay. You can just say yes.”
Mamdani: “Okay.”
Trump: “It’s easier. It’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.”
With this brief exchange, Trump succeeded in framing the White House meeting as one of pragmatic cooperation between two politicians, not one of a fiery exchange between two ego-driven ideological activists.
The two men agreed to work together on two core issues that affect Americans: the cost of living crisis and ending permawar abroad.
In truth, this was a realty check for Mamdani the ideologue, and a transition to Mamdani the politician.
2) MAGA Pragmatism Blunts Ideologue Mamdani
It would be an exaggeration to state that the agreed upon pragmatic cooperation has ended all differences between the two camps.
Clearly major differences do, and should, remain. One of them being the role of government.
And another being the the economic model best suited to bring prosperity.
But more so for either of them individually, Trump’s meeting with Mamdani was a success for the America-First agenda.
This is because a non-ideological, mixed economy that pragmatically responds to need while remaining self-scrutinising, is the most reasonable way forward.
The fact that Mamdani agreed to cooperate with his sworn ideological adversary was a victory for country over cause. Some online commentators found this fact rather hard to digest.
It is, quite simply, put like this:
And on the subject of collaborating with the “fascist” Trump, Mamdani has reemphasised since the meeting that he is willing to maintain the contradiction and work with Trump for the betterment of New York City’s economy, even going so far as to openly agree to collaborating with ICE agents on the deportation of undocumented criminals who commit any of the 170 serious crimes that warrant deportation.
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Broadcaster: “In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you’ve used in the past. You were about to answer, then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, ‘that’s okay. You can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it’. So Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?”
Mamdani: “And after President Trump said that I said ‘yes’ and…”
Broadcaster: “So you do?”
Mamdani: “…and and that’s something that I’ve said in the past, I say it today and, I think, what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment, and we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”
Broadcaster: “You’ve also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, ‘attack on our democracy’. You’ve called him a ‘despot’. Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?”
Mamdani: “Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe. And that’s the thing that I think is important in our politics, is that we don’t shy away from where we have disagreements, but we understand what it is that brings us to that table. Because I’m not coming into the oval office to make a point or make a stand I’m coming in there to deliver for New Yorkers, and a few weeks ago I was asked by a reporter three words to describe myself. I said: ‘New York City’ and that’s what animated that conversation. How do we deliver for the people of New York City.”
Broadcaster: “I think that some of your supporters would be curious to know, you say you stand by your past statements that ‘yes he’s a threat to the democracy’ how do you square working with someone who you still think is a threat to the democracy?”
Mamdani: “I think working for the people of New York City demands that you work with everyone and anyone, and that you always look to find those areas of agreement while not overlooking the places of disagreement. And I think this was something that came up in our meeting. We spoke about immigration. We spoke about the fact that in New York City, we have sanctuary city policies that allow for the city to work with the federal government on around 170 serious crimes. The concern for so many New Yorkers comes about anything beyond that. And I spoke about the importance of us being able to protect New Yorkers and some of the incidents that we see, they do not do that.”
For Mamdani to openly be selling the idea to New Yorkers that he will collaborate with ICE deportations, reflects a coming to terms with realty that no amount of ideological rhetoric can compensate for.
All this points to one conclusion, Mamdani does not really think Trump is a fascist, else he would not be collaborating with said ‘fascist’. And Trump does not think Mamdani is a ‘jihadist communist’ (to use Laura Loomer’s strange classification, quoted in the Guardian above) else Trump would not have said that he could easily live in Mamdani’s New York.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“But it was clear from the meeting that neither of them really felt this way, despite the political rhetoric. If Mamdani really thought ‘Trump is Hitler,’ there was no way he would ever meet him. If Trump really thought Mamdani was the Stalin of New York, he would not have told the press he’d feel fine living in the city under his leadership.”
Why? Because both Trump and Mamdani agree that putting the needs of the country first is more important that their own ideological posturing.
With this in mind, both men agreed that the needs of the country demand addressing the cost of living crisis, and putting an end to foreign wars. Hence, the meeting was not a victory per se for Trump or Mamdani individually, it was a victory for ditching ideology and putting America first.
3) Mamdani is no Threat to MAGA: Agreed on Cost of Living Crisis
The Radical Dispatch has previously warned of the globalist desire to use Mamdani to stir racial and religious division in New York City.
Radical Media reports 12th November 2025:
By completely side stepping the culture war side of Mamdani’s campaigning, Trump succeeded in muting the potential for division and instead turned Mamdani’s victory into a success for America-First.
Mamdani was open to Trump’s approach because - as he personally reminded everyone - many of his voters also voted for President Trump.
The overlap was too large to ignore.
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Reporter: “Mr. Mamdani, does New York City love President Trump?”
Mamdani: “New York City loves a future that is affordable. And I can tell you that there were more New Yorkers who voted for President Trump in the most recent presidential election because of that focus on cost of living. And I’m looking forward to working together to deliver on that affordability agenda.”
Trump: “I got a lot of votes…”
In fact, the official number of New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani and also voted Trump, is one in ten.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“In fact, Mamdani pointed out that ‘one in ten’ voters who backed him also voted for Trump. “I’m OK with that,” Trump said. They took turns patting each other’s backs, and for a moment, our country felt unified…Some were downright angry. The hard-right political activist Laura Loomer tweeted: ‘So we are just going to normalise communism’?”
This one in ten figure was explicitly raised by Mamdani himself, in the Oval Office.
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Trump: “A lot of my voters actually voted for him.”
Mamdani: “One in ten”
Trump: “And I’m okay with that.”
This overlap in voters - despite ostensible mutual animosity between the two camps - is best explained below by a columnist for the Times of London.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“So what is really going on here? The friendly meeting didn’t surprise me one bit, because the future of our politics is not left v right. It is populism v the establishment. Trump and Mamdani represent two sides of the same coin. Neither the establishment on the left or the right offer solutions to the pain Americans are facing. From Missouri to New York, young people feel they will never have families or buy a home. Jobs have been shipped overseas and an ever-increasing underclass has been priced out of a middle class life. The Kamala Harris and Lindsey Graham types in our country barely recognise this truth, nor have they offered any tangible solutions. In fact, while Trump and Mamdani were chumming it up in the White House, old guard establishment figures like Harris, the Bush Family and Rachel Maddow were at Dick Cheney’s funeral — an apt metaphor for the political reality of the future. During the Oval Office meeting, Trump astutely observed that ‘Bernie Sanders and I agreed on much more than people thought… many of the Bernie Sanders supporters voted for me.’ He’s right…But after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “The Squad” came along, many of Sanders’ original populist stances got lost in a wave of “abolish ICE” and “defund the police” rhetoric. It’s no wonder he did well in states where Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and, subsequently, many of his voters have ended up voting for Trump….
The overlap has been seen before, in the mass transfer of what were previously known as ‘Bernie Bros,’ to MAGA voters.
This time, it has manifested explicitly as ‘MAGA for Mamdani’.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“Sanders’ story shows why it’s important for the left to moderate on cultural issues, especially if they want to build a populist movement that can win nationally like Trump. And though it’s hard for many to understand, two such opposing factions can appeal to the same voters. Just look at this guy: a 55-year old two-time Trump voter in New York, dressed in ‘Maga for Mamdani’ gear, who reportedly also voted for the mayor-elect. ‘This’ll be the first time I’m voting for a Democrat,’ he said. ‘I like his policies’.”
Even the longstanding Democratic strategist James Carville is jumping on the populism bandwagon, writing for the New York Times that the woke agenda should be ditched and replaced by economic rage.
The New York Times reports 24th November 2025:
“It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss.”
The Times of London further elaborates.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“Carville points out this can only be accomplished if the left moderates itself on cultural issues. In the Oval Office, Mamdani did just that. He was quick to assert that he’d keep the New York police department headcount where it stands, at 35,000 officers. He also went from demanding we ‘abolish ICE’ to agreeing that local police officers would work with ICE on the deportations of illegal immigrants who were found to have committed any of the 170 crimes the NYPD deems serious. This language is a massive departure from typical progressive rhetoric about immigration. And Mamdani said his vision for tax reform wasn’t about taxing white people more, but about taxing higher-income households of all races.”
4) Right-Wing Ideologues Are Threat to MAGA
It isn’t just the populist left that must moderate its more ideological wing. MAGA too has ideologues and identitarians who are already and tangibly jeopardising Trump’s momentum.
The Times reports 24th November 2025:
“But it’s not just the left that needs to tone down its rhetoric. Populism continues to be a rising force on the right, especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. The hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes, who has a history of making wildly transgressive comments about women, Jewish people and minorities, has built his own extreme version of identity politics among his internet-based movement, the ‘Groypers’. Just as the left cannot build a populist coalition with national appeal by demonising white people, the right will never build a large identitarian movement that excludes non-whites, Jewish people and women.”
Trump appears aware of this, and despite allowing Mamdani to stick to his ‘fascist’ label, Trump was quick to deny that he thought Mamdani was a jihadist.
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Broadcaster: “Do you think you’re standing next to a jihadist right now in the Oval Office?”
Trump: ”No, I don’t, but I don’t particularly. I think I met with a man who’s a very rational person. I met with a man who really wants to see New York be great again. And I can say again, because New York was great. I think he can bring it back. Now, the question is, will he bring it back all the way? Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which is, I guarantee, that’s his wish. I think he wants to make it greater than ever before. And if he can, we’ll be out there cheering. I’ll be cheering for him.”
This suggests that Trump is aware of the damage that the more extreme elements of those who claim the mantle of MAGA can do to his electoral chances.
Election night already indicated that many independent swing voters are switching back to voting Democrat.
The Times reports 5th November 2025:
“A stunning night for the Democrats on Tuesday has lifted the party out of the doldrums — but left activists to argue over whether their success points to a moderate or a radical future….Perhaps the main bellwether results with lessons for next year’s midterm elections and beyond were the two Democratic tribes that had been leaning towards the Republicans. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, and especially Mikie Sherrill, an ex-Navy pilot, in New Jersey exceeded expectations on the night. The first alarm bell was sounded by independent voters. Spanberger won them by 19 points and Sherrill by 13 points. These are the pool of motivated swing voters crucial for winning the House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress, next year”.
Likewise, many Latinos who Trump succeeded in prying away from the Democrats are also returning, primarily due to the cost of living crisis and the chaotic way in which some ICE raids have unfolded in their communities.
The Times reports 5th November 2025:
“The next flashing signal is Hispanic voters, with whom Trump scored highly last year. Republicans haemorrhaged support in the most heavily Latino parts of Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday. Hudson and Passaic Counties in New Jersey, where more than two in five voters are Latino, swung by 22 and 18 points respectively to the Democrats, compared with last year’s presidential election. Manassas Park, the most Hispanic city in Virginia, swung to the Democrats by 22 points. This suggests that Latinos who lent their ballots to Trump due to cost-of-living concerns last year will punish the Republicans at next year’s midterms if their economic situation has not improved. The swings also suggest Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown could backfire electorally. He has sent masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Hispanic communities to arrest people in their workplaces. A poll for UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organisation in the country, this week found that 64 per cent of Latinos disapprove of the job Trump is doing. Trump unglued the Hispanic vote from the Democrats but it now appears unmoored and liable to swing dramatically in response to immediate concerns. But the main wake-up call for Republicans was sounded by the word of the night: affordability.”
President Trump will be acutely aware of the need to start showing the domestic fruits of his stopping wars abroad, a fact that his deputy JD Vance has been only too keen to remind him of, for his own reasons.
The Times reports 5th November 2025:
“The other huge factor is Trump who, as usual, found reasons for a poor night other than himself and his failure to conquer inflation, which is running at the same 3 per cent rate he inherited. He blamed the government shutdown, despite previously insisting that Democrats were paying a heavy price for it. This may backfire on him if they scent an advantage in keeping the record closure going. It was left to JD Vance, the vice-president, to diagnose the real policy problem. He delicately suggested that Trump had taken his eye off the ball in his pursuit of the Nobel peace prize.”
Perhaps JD Vance, who is owned ‘lock, stock and barrel’ by globalist technocrat Peter Thiel and who has previously supported American intervention against Iran, wishes that Trump did not focus at all on stopping these wars abroad.
5) MAGA and Mamdani Agree on Peace
On the subject of peace in the Middle East, and in addition to the cost of living crisis, this is another area where Trump and Mamdani happily see eye to eye and will gladly cooperate.
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Trump: “Now for the first time, peace in the Middle East after 3000 years, and now we’re going to refine it. And I think you’re going to see some very positive things happen…Oh, sure. Oh, I would do that. Absolutely. And if the mayor would like to be here for that meeting, because I know he feels very strongly. I think you feel very, very strongly about peace in the Middle East.”
Mamdani: “We desperately want it. And that’s something that I shared with the president, that when I spoke to New Yorkers who had voted for the president last November on Hillside Avenue and Fordham Road, I asked them why. I heard again and again two major reasons. One, was that they wanted an end to forever wars they wanted an end to the taxpayer dollars we had funding violations of human rights, and they wanted to address the cost of living crisis, and I appreciated the chance to discuss both of those things.”
Trump: “He said a lot of my voters actually voted for him, and I’m..”
Mamdani: “…one in ten.”
Trump: “And I’m okay with that…”
More and more voices are realising that not only has Trump committed to ending these foreign wars, but that, importantly…
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