Right-Wing Media Warns of Socialism and Chaos After Mamdani Victory

What will become of New York City now that Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect? For the right-wing media outlets covering his victory, the future seems obvious: crime, chaos and calamity ahead.

On Fox News, Mr. Mamdani’s victory has signaled the specter of looming socialism. One after another, the channel’s conservative hosts warned that a radical-left takeover of New York was nigh.

“We always go, ‘We don’t want to turn into Havana,’ and then we started saying, ‘We don’t want to turn into Caracas,’” the “Fox & Friends” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy said on Wednesday morning, seated in her show’s Midtown Manhattan studio. “Believe me, in about four years, everybody is going to say, ‘We don’t want to turn into New York City,’ because that will be the next example of what a socialist disaster looks like.”