If Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, his tenure in office will be a blueprint for blue states and left-leaning pols everywhere.

The champagne socialist fills the progressive bingo card with his subsidized pie-in-the-sky campaign promises.

Do any of these plans sound familiar? Mamdani vows to provide free buses, universal childcare from 5 weeks to 5 years old and city-run grocery stores. Who would fund this? The rich, of course, the boogeyman/ATM of socialist proposals. As the New York Post reported, he wants to cover the estimated $10 billion price tag for his plans by raising taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations.

Mamdani also wants to freeze the rent on rent-stabilized apartments. How that will help landlords fund necessary repairs and maintenance is unknown. He wants to continue congestion pricing, and he doesn’t just approve of sanctuary laws, he wants to strengthen them in the city.

Mamdani gained traction with voters tired of high prices and eager for free stuff paid for by others. But there’s a huge swath of New Yorkers who don’t want a ticket on the Zohran train.

The Daily Mail reported that according to a poll, nearly one million New Yorkers are preparing to flee the city should Mamdani win.

The survey, conducted by JL Partners for the Daily Mail, found that 9% of New Yorkers would ‘definitely’ leave the city, which currently has a population of 8.5 million. And some 25%, or 2.12 million, would “consider” packing up.

Such a rush for the exits would not bode well for the city’s economy, but here’s the kicker: the poll found 7% of those earning over $250,000 would definitely leave New York City under Mamdani. It’s the top 1% of earners in New York who pay around half the city’s income taxes. Not to mention the companies that can find better deals elsewhere.

So how would he soak the rich to pay for all those programs if people leave for greener, tax-friendlier pastures? Who will pay for Mamdani’s wish-list of 200,000 units of affordable housing? And would a Mamdani NYC even be attractive to developers?

But the nuts and bolts and consequences of such progressive plans aren’t the only reason Mamdani has become a darling of the left.

He’s refused to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” during his campaign, yet still said he’d be a mayor “that protects Jewish New Yorkers” if elected. We’ve seen what “globalizing the intifada” means, as attacks on Jews have only ramped up since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre.

He tap danced around the issue over the summer during a “Meet the Press” interview. “That’s not language that I use,” he said. “The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.”

He also walked back his assessment of the police. In 2020, he referred to them as “racist,” “wicked” and “corrupt” and ripe for defunding. His mea culpa came last month.

“I apologize because of the fact that I’m looking to work with these officers. And I know that these officers, these men and women who serve in the NYPD, they put their lives on the line every single day,” he told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum.

Spoken like a true pol.

Editorial cartoon by Steve Breen (Creators Syndicate)