Commitment to the Bit

Will the American left double down on its fantasies or start embracing reality?

I must say, I wasn’t surprised to see Claudia Morales out canvassing last month for Zohran Mamdani, the white-hating radical leftist and current favourite to be the next mayor of New York city.

You’ve probably forgotten who Claudia Morales is, if you even knew in the first place, but I remember her, don’t worry.

Claudia Morales is the ex-girlfriend of the hapless idiot Ryan Carson, a social-justice warrior who was stabbed to death while they were walking home late one night in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in 2023.

The couple had been attending a friend’s wedding and were apparently planning to get married themselves, but an 18-year-old weirdo called Brian Dowling had other ideas.

Security footage of the incident, which was plastered all over social media, showed a brief confrontation as Carson and Morales passed Dowling. “What are you looking at? I’ll kill you,” Dowling screamed, before chasing Carson with a knife.

Carson tried to get away, ran into a bench and ended up on his ass on the floor, where he was stabbed multiple times, including through the heart.

The killer made to leave, then came back to menace and spit on Morales, before actually leaving. Carson was declared dead on arrival.

Dowling, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, at the beginning of this year.

In the immediate aftermath of the killing, there were claims Morales refused to help police identify the suspect. All cops are bastards (ACAB), right? Carson’s friends rushed to put words in his scarcely cold dead mouth, forgiving his killer and absolving him of all blame because—socio-economic factors, of course.

New York Assembly member Emily Gallagher had this to say of Carson: “I'm absolutely positive that he would immediately see that this was a person who was suffering from a lack of resources in our community, who probably needs better mental health support, possibly housing, possibly drug support, drug treatment.”

“What he would want to avenge his death is for us to fix how broken this city is,” she added.

This is something leftists regularly do now on behalf of their friends and family when they’re on the sharp end of their own retarded social policies. They do it in the UK too, for instance after the London Bridge attacks.

So, like I say, it wasn’t a surprise for me to see Claudia Morales getting very friendly with Zohran Mamdani, a man who has described violent crime as an “artificial construct,” and wants to continue the “criminal-justice reform” that has transformed New York into a place where even people who campaign night and day for criminal-justice reform get killed in the street at random.

A couple of weeks ago, Morales met Mamdani face to face and documented it with a cute all-lower-case post captioned “a girl and her mayor,” but for weeks before that, she appears to have been canvassing for Mamdani during the Democrat mayoral primary, which he won.

In one post she even used the murder of her ex to justify her support for Mamdani, claiming he’s the only one to fix New York’s crime problem and in any case most people claiming to care so much about crime in New York have never actually experienced it firsthand, so they should all just shut the hell up.

She wrote: “even if we have never met, just this once, if some man who won't even ride the subway because he's scawed [sic] tells you a socialist mayor will make new york dangerous, you can say ‘my friend whose boyfriend was stabbed to death in front of her says you're not just wrong but a coward’.”

Charming.

In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said the intellectuals only started to care about the gulag when it was finally their turn to be sent there. They had been totally indifferent, silent, to the plight of millions of Russian peasants and petty bourgeois as they trudged off through the snow on their way to Siberia, never to return. Some even justified their terrible fate as a necessary sacrifice for the communist utopia. You can’t make an omelette and all that.