{"id":361742,"date":"2026-10-01T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361742\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:28:12","slug":"what-mamdanis-planned-troll-farm-offensive-reveals-about-the-city-hall-braintrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361742\/","title":{"rendered":"What Mamdani’s planned ‘troll-farm offensive’ reveals about the City Hall braintrust"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like City Hall still has some grownups; who else could\u2019ve spilled the beans on the latest idiocy plotted by Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s brainless trust \u2014 a troll-farm offensive against top city CEOs?<\/p>\n

Our news-side colleagues haven\u2019t shared their sources on the plans for a major social-media campaign<\/a> blasting biz leaders as the latest enemies of the people<\/a>; we\u2019re simply deducing the existence of leakers on the mayor\u2019s team who saw this scheme could only blow up in Mamdani\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

Exactly as did the mayor\u2019s infamous Tax Day video doxxing and denouncing<\/a> hedge-funder Ken Griffin, and his farcically broad \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre tax\u201d class-warfare target list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not simply outraged at spending city resources<\/a> on political agitprop demonizing private citizens as exploiters and parasites.<\/p>\n

Yes, those moves jazzed the Mamdanista inner circle, who need to believe they\u2019re scoring for socialism, and cheered the ressentiment regiments of his voting base \u2014 but that\u2019s all the good it did.<\/p>\n

Nor will mobilizing his paid influencers to gin up a new Eat-the-Rich hate-fest actually help win massive state tax hikes next spring, as the planners pretend.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n

Even most Democrats in Albany are tiring of the mayor; they might be happy to raise taxes, but only to fund their own agendas, not his.<\/p>\n

So the smear campaign can only (further) alienate its targets without actually harming them, since CEOs sleep just fine at night despite Cousin Comrade\u2019s YouTube yucks, Bluesky blasts and Instagram insults.<\/p>\n

(Of course the attacks might prompt them to think again about how much easier it is to do business in West Palm . . .)<\/p>\n

Yes, social media can carry real power, but it\u2019s no magic wand to grant the wizards\u2019 every wish \u2014 and the mayor\u2019s team has actual work to do just to keep city government functioning.<\/p>\n

Maybe the staff stuck with that thankless task are just as happy for the mayor to make videos and leave them alone; perhaps it\u2019s the only \u201cwork\u201d he\u2019s truly qualified to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like City Hall still has some grownups; who else could\u2019ve spilled the beans on the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,22552,87720,304,9,24,55,54,56,299,47930,4015,2780,82],"class_list":["post-361742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-hall","tag-class","tag-class-warfare","tag-editorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-taxes","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}