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Curtis Sliwa did not mince words in Thursday’s NYC mayoral debate when he branded Andrew Cuomo the “architect” and Zohran Mamdani the “apprentice” of the disastrous policies that have hollowed out our city. The line landed because every New Yorker knows the results of soft-on-crime experiments and political theater when lives and livelihoods are on the line.
There is nothing accidental about Sliwa’s fury at Cuomo; the former governor’s record still reeks of scandal and mismanagement, from the nursing-home catastrophe to the arrogance that led him to believe he was above accountability. Conservatives have long warned that Albany’s career politicians produce more excuses than results, and Sliwa’s blunt charge echoes the everyday outrage of citizens who pay the price for those failures.
Labeling Mamdani the “apprentice” is more than rhetoric — it’s a warning about an ideological heir who would scale up the same woke experiments that have gutted public safety and crushed small businesses. Sliwa is right to point out that vague, cost-free promises from a political novice mask radical proposals that would remake our city into a laboratory for nationalists of redistribution. Voters ought to judge those ideas by their real-world consequences, not by clever slogans.
As the founder of the Guardian Angels and a fixture on New York streets, Sliwa sells himself as an outsider who actually cares about the people who keep this city running. He’s not polished by Albany’s machine and he wears that as a badge of honor while promising to restore public order and common sense. Whether you agree with every tactic or not, that outsider authenticity is exactly what many Americans crave right now.
Don’t let the political class and their billionaire backers bully principled candidates into clearing the field for a manufactured “lesser evil.” Sliwa has refused to be scapegoated into dropping out so career politicians can salvage their reputations, and that stubbornness is a reminder that voters—not donors—should decide who leads. If Democrats created the vacuum that brought Mamdani to the front, they should own the consequences rather than demand Republicans fix their mess.
The hard truth for conservatives is simple: this race matters for the future of New York City and for the message it sends to the rest of America. We must turn out, stand firm for law and order, and reject both the swamp’s comebacks and the left’s experiments that threaten our neighborhoods. If patriots show up in force, we can stop an ideological takeover and put New York back on the road to prosperity and safety.
