Cea Weaver’s ‘ghoulish’ beliefs, anatomy of a far-left cult and other commentary

From the left: Cea Weaver’s ‘Ghoulish’ Beliefs

Mamdani official Cea Weaver’s “social media history became an issue” because she argued that “homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy” and called to “impoverish the white middle class,” notes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi — not simply see that the “state guarantees high-quality housing for all.”

In short, “Weaver has a spectacular, tinfoil-level fixation on white people,” yet the mayor’s sticking with her, endorsing the “booming movement of sanctioned intellectual racism.”

Beware this “ghoulish belief system”: “If one can argue that private property is just white dominion, it’s not a big leap to indicting the whole catalogue of Englightenment virtues, from Mamdani’s denunciation of ‘rugged individualism’ . . . to ‘family structure’ to the ‘Protestant work ethic’ and so on.”

Culture critic: Anatomy of a Far-Left Cult

“Groups like The People’s Forum have cultivated a cultish following,” notes City Journal’s Stu Smith, “capable of activating scores of organizations at a moment’s notice” to “flood the streets” in the “service” of America’s foes.

The forum stages rapid-response mobs in support of “narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro” and the Oct. 7 attacks and sponsors “political education” events complaining of “the constant demonization of North Korea.”

Its seminars employ “though-terminating cliches” that “shut down debate” and make “all of capitalism’s opponents — no matter how disreputable — seem worthy of defense.”

The Manhattan-based group’s “influence extends far beyond Gotham” and looks “poised to expand.”

Conservative: Socialism’s Hateful History

“It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party,” fumes James Piereson at The New Criterion.

“Socialists are responsible for the murder, imprisonment, and torture of many millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of innocent people.”

So “how do socialists escape the indictment that they are purveyors of tyranny and mass murder? Some of them deny that Stalin, Mao, and others were true socialists” or “assert that true socialism has never really been tried.”

It has, and always “begins with idealistic promises and ends in barbarism.”

Progressives like “to censor conservatives for, allegedly, promoting ‘hate’ ” but: “The record speaks for itself: socialism is a hate crime.”

Centrist: Mayor’s Housing Balancing Act

Mayor “Mamdani and his ideological allies are now aiming for a weird — and probably unworkable — synthesis of capitalism and communism, explains Very Serious’ Josh Barro.

They see developers as “productive allies in the fight against the housing shortage” while “the dreaded landlords” are the ones “whose assets can be expropriated.”

Among the problems with this “capitalism for developers, communism for landlords” approach: “Today’s developer is often tomorrow’s landlord.”

The plan for “holding down rents and reducing landlord profits” points to to the city expropriating “a huge swathe of the city’s housing stock.” 

The mayor should worry “about whether an expropriative attitude toward landlords will scare off the developers” he needs to rely on “to build the new homes this city so badly needs.”

From the right: GOP Can Land a Win in Minnesota 

The Minnesota fraud scandals “could become a liability for progressive welfare-for-all governance nationwide, if the GOP is smart enough to take advantage,” advises The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel. 

Along with Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan knew about widespread scamming and “promised to address it on taking office in 2019,” but not only did she and Walz “fail to halt existing fraud, criminals expanded over the next seven years.”

“This is awkward for the national progressives” backing her run for Senate. If she wins her primary, she’ll be a “huge risk” in the general, as average Minnesotans are “sufficiently steamed” by the fraud.

Republicans have a shot at beating her if they “realize that Minnesota isn’t a rah-rah MAGA state, and that any such candidate will likely lose.” 

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board