Sunday Nov. 9, 2025
How did you prepare the big news of the week?
There was much news. But let's narrow it down to a few.
The Jacobin leftist Zohran Mamdani's political victory over the ashes of what had been the Democrat Party, propelled by the Angry White Women vote.
The Angry White Women Leftists, often referred to as AWFLS, have appetite and a well developed sense of entitlement. Though they and their male partners are well educated in obscure subjects, they don't have real financially marketable skills. They know DEI bureaucracy and DEI slogans, but they can't fix a leaky toilet or repair an electric socket. They can't earn an honest dollar so they reach for politics to take what they want.
My friend the astute writer Michael Ledwith is also fascinated by these AWFLS, who provide anger, backbone and the necessary cruelty to what we are now experiencing as American Communism. They are what we call Karens. He sent me this passage from George Orwell's "1984."
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
It explains a lot, Ledwith said. And I think of AOC and her posse of AWFLS, searching for heretics, sharpening her knife, and I hope she doesn't find them.
Because they don't have the money to live in New York at the standard they expect to live, they demand that Zohran give them "free stuff" and call it "affordability." They feel betrayed by the establishment because they can no longer pay for what they desire. They want to live large as befits what they think is their station. And he's promised to use other people's money until that's gone and the roof caves in, as it always does.
And the other big news (to me, at least) are the revelations that Democrat Deep State prosecutorial zealot Jack Smith–the javert of the new left–had hoped to prosecute "the entire Republican political apparatus" for the crime of being conservative.
How did we get here? As always the dried bones of political failure have lined this road over the decades: The failure of the political establishment is the foundation of the Mamdani rise. And what did the Democrat establishment offer in New York? A tired cynical Cuomo known for feeding grandmothers in nursing homes to the pandemic, and slapping fannies and otherwise sexually harassing young women. Democrats were as exhausted as he was.
And they offered a charismatic figure in Mamdani, and if he orders them to the killing fields at some future date, he wasn't a tired Democrat hack like Cuomo.
The leftist Democrats who bowed to the radical communists like Mandami enjoy talking of diversity up until the moment they hang you for speaking your mind. I'm conservative. I really don't think a trip to prison would change my mind about the leftists who have destroyed my hometown of Chicago and have now ruined New York.
You might have watched panel discussion shows‐those panels of experts and witty pundits with perfect teeth–selected to reflect your politics like so many of those bobble head dogs that people place in their cars. It is amusing to watch them cast about for consensus if one hasn't yet been formed. But bobble heads‐even pretty ones‐don't quite get you there.
So how did I prepare for Mamdani, especially as Democrats worried about the angry left and the political guillotine of the leftists express no desire to end their shut-down of the federal government?
Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said that Democrat fear of their own won't allow them to reopen the government. "Because they're afraid of facing the guillotine of the radical left. And who are the radical left? They are the people who would prefer to use taxpayer dollars to pay for health care for illegal immigrants than to pay for the men and women who keep us safe."
Guillotine, fear of the unleashed mob? I looked for my old copy of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
It's old. It's affordable in paperback. It was written by a conservative. And I like it.
But it has one serious drawback:
It is a book.
A book on paper, and this, by definition, takes effort to digest.
It is not like sitting with the bobbleheads. But it does involve the Reign of Terror propelled by the Jacobin revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre.
France spilled its own blood from September 1793 and into July 1794. In the Reign of Terror, some 17,000 French citizens were executed at the guillotine. Another 10,000 died in prison without trial.
Among them were thousands of executed priests caught up in the Jacobin De-Christianization of France, as churches were shuttered and winemakers, shopkeepers, supporters of the king and queen were executed. Everyone and anyone could be suspected, and sent to the guillotine to the jeers of the filthy mob. It wasn't Portland or Chicago, it was Paris.
Family members accused each other as not being supportive enough of the revolution, terrified they would themselves be accused. And they were killed. And the guillotine kept falling again and again and again.
For those who are afraid of reading, I leave this short video, narrated by a man with an English accent. Why? There's nothing like an English accent to perpetuate a sense of historical authority
Fittingly, it even claimed Robespierre. Who reminds us of Robespierre today?
I think of the Jacobin Democrats Adam Schiff, John Brennan of the CIA, or perhaps the imperious James Comey who destroyed the credibility of the FBI. You can see how frightened they are. Brennan is snarling the way a frightened dog snarls at the approach of a predator.
At any event, the executions in France continued until finally, Napoleon became dictator of all of France and personally controlled the media and told the newspapers what to print.
Now it's New York Mayor Elect Zorhan Mamdani's turn to play the Jacobin with his billionaire friends.
His voters don't read history. They have "feelings." They are sentimental, emotional and thus easily manipulated, demanding "free stuff" and this leads to disaster.
So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) November 5, 2025
Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani 🇺🇸🗽🌊 pic.twitter.com/nvR5Zb46TI
Soros has his meat puppet. He doesn't need the clumsy barbarian in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson. He's already got Chicago, and much of the media. It's not only Chicago and New York. The left is ascendant, full of confidence and oh so violent. The Democrat embrace of the assassination culture continued after the assassination of Christian activist Charlie Kirk.
They marched in lock step in support of their candidate in Virginia who fantasized about murdering his opponents and killing the opponent's children. It was Virginia Democrats who revenged themselves on Republican delegate Carrie Coyner, the Virginia Republican who revealed violent texts sent to her by Jay Jones.
He expresses fantasies of murdering children and now is the chief law enforcement officer of the commonwealth that produced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Senior Virginia Democrats like Sen. Tim Kaine supported and embraced Jay Jones. The media, which has for decades protected leftist outrage, did it's job.
So how did we get here? As always, the establishment failed, and legitimate concerns about cost of living were ignored. And the Bolsheviks offered a charismatic leader with plenty of charm.
And now they bathe in their feelings, and think about the great future ahead of them, as they reach for power over the rest of us. And you're surprised that I would compare today's American Democrats to the murderous Jacobins of 18th Century France? I don't take guillotines to protests in American cities, but they do. In Chicago, New York, Portland, Los Angeles, every place where the Democrats feel strong.
The rest of us? We pray for their reign of terror to end.