NY Post columnist Miranda Devine on Mamdani targeting negligent landlords: “Communist prescriptions” will lead to “bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery”
Devine on Mamdani: He has an “eerie smile ... when he closes his eyes and says something really frightening”
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From the May 27, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowing to take properties away from so-called bad landlords and transfer ownership to non-profits and tenants. The proposal is part of a sweeping new housing plan aimed at expanding affordable housing and increasing local control. How's that gone in the past? Let's bring in New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor Miranda Devine. Miranda, no one can be surprised about this. I am surprised he's saying it out loud.
MIRANDA DEVINE (GUEST): Yes. I mean, it shows you just how brazen Zohran Mamdani is, and he calls himself a socialist. But, really, these are communist prescriptions. And wherever that has been tried anywhere in the world, what results is bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery. And that's what he wants to inflict on New York and, ultimately, the rest of the United States.
His very good friend, Hasan Piker, the vile Twitch streamer, has described landlords as the enemy and said that we want the streets to be running with their capitalist blood. And that's effectively what Zohran Mamdani said, very chillingly, with that sort of eerie smile that he has when he closes his eyes and says something really frightening. And I think people should take this seriously. I know, there there are sensible people who say that he's childish and that he has no power to do this, that the rule of law protects private property rights.
But the fact is that already you know rent control, aggressive in this city, has led to many landlords just not reinvesting in their properties because, largely, they can't afford it. If you're not getting enough rent to pay for your expenses, then these landlords find it more sensible to just walk away. And, so what communist prescriptions really have created the problem, and now Mamdani is pretending he has the solution, which is just to steal the property outright.