PolitiFact Refuses to Budge on Mamdani’s Communist Talk
5th July 2025
Last week, we reported on how PolitiFact threw a “False” flag at President Trump for calling New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a “communist lunatic,” despite contrary evidence, like his 2020 tweet in support of a communist mayor in India, suggesting that’s the kind of mayor New York needs. On Thursday, in reaction to a White House spokesperson, PolitiFact doubled down on its ruling, dismissing Mamdani’s clearly Marxist talk of seizing the means of production.
The distinction between a socialist and a communist matters only to another socialist/communist. Splitting hairs over political nuances on the Left are of no importance when the consequences for their victims are much the same.