As the US absorbed Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win, some high-profile social media users rushed to mourn what they characterised as the destruction of America.
“New York City has fallen,” Rep Randy Fine (R-Florida) said in a post on X. “America is next if we don’t stop it.”
“Remember you only vote for communism once!” warned convicted and pardoned former congressman George Santos [...]
Mamdani’s supporters hit back, often with jokes: “Wow look at the Empire State Building in NYC tonight,” quipped one account along with a fake image of a hammer and sickle projected onto the skyscraper.
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