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The Russian Revolution — commonly conceived of as the communist overthrow of the Romanovs — actually took place over the course of two steps.
First, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917.
Then, that fall, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks decapitated the left-wing government led by the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in what came to be known as the October Revolution.
That’s the one that was celebrated as a holiday in the Soviet Union, and is now by socialists everywhere.
Not the left’s triumph over the right, but the bloodthirsty left’s defeat of the far-left.
History is repeating itself in the Big Apple this October, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes hits from more than the usual suspects.
The revolution he represents has found a new counterrevolutionary subject of their ire: him.
Just last Wednesday, on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, Mamdani did everything in his power to let the collection of antisemites, spoiled rich kids, Third World fetishists, and Islamists in his coalition whose side he’s really on.
His statement about the matter included only a passing mention of the day’s atrocities, carried out against Jews because they were Jews, before transitioning into a much more forceful, impassioned denunciation of the victims.
Later that evening, he dined at Ayat Hinds Hall on the Upper West Side, a Palestinian restaurant with a menu that denies the very existence of Israel and includes a section labeled “From the River to the Sea,” a common refrain used to call for the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state.
It wasn’t exactly subtle.
But the mouth-breathers he’s long counted as his most fervent supporters couldn’t make out his wildly exaggerated winks.
For the crime of acknowledging Oct. 7 at all, he had to pay.
“Zohran, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”
“Traitor, traitor, come on out! You sold all your people out!”
“Zohran, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!”
Those were just a few of chants that followed the mayor around the city.
Guess he should have found a way to put Benjamin Netanyahu in cuffs, omitted the throat-clearing about the dead Jews and skipped out on the vigil he attended.
Then again, who knows if even that would have been good enough.
A week later, Mamdani is facing demands to fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch over an ICE officer-involved shooting in the Bronx.
After Oscar Belgal, an illegal immigrant with a rap sheet that included armed robbery and drug dealing, was shot (not fatally) after allegedly trying to ram the agents attempting to apprehend him.
Out of this knave, the far-left has created a cause célèbre, and, in a stretch to outstretch them all, a reason to sack Tisch.
“We demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and use every power available to him to drive ICE out of New York City,” declared the Democratic Socialists of America in their official statement on the matter.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the monstrous congressional candidate of Mamdani’s own making, joined in the calls for Tisch’s head while accusing NYPD officers of “rapidly escalating violence” in the wake of the incident and spending “more time protecting a militia that just shot someone than protecting New Yorkers.”
“Commissioner Tisch must step down.”
Asked about Chevalier’s demands and his decision to stand by the commissioner during a Sunday morning TV hit, the mayor seemed dumbfounded.
“The NYPD was not at the scene when the incident took place… When they arrived on the scene, they found Mr. Belgal on the ground…The NYPD then took Mr. Belgal into a squad car, started administering immediate aid and took him to a hospital,” he replied.
Just one short year ago, Mamdani was the hottest act in town — the great, red hope of every tankie, pinko and police abolitionist across these United States.
Now his once adoring fans think him a slave to their two most reviled boogeymen: Zionists and cops.
The truth is that nothing will ever be good enough for this crowd. The shocking slogans that they once found exhilarating become tired; they develop a tolerance for their own radicalism that requires even harder stuff to push past.
This doesn’t excuse Mamdani. He’s still a true believer.
But among this cult of the left, you can never be pure, you can never be perfect.
Every political stance is a mask ban in a Massachusetts lesbian bar.
In this revolution, no one’s safe — not even its own face.