DAVID MARCUS: Why Mamdani will serve two terms no matter how bad NYC gets

In fact, the pricey suds are probably quite indicative of the impact that Zany Zohran's policies will have across Gotham. It will almost certainly be more carnival of errors than clinical communist takeover, making New York City more expensive and less attractive, but with snazzy Soviet-style posters and TikTok videos.

"I don't even go to Manhattan," Steve, a lifelong Bay Ridge, Brooklyn resident, told me. "I've got everything I need right here."

Like The Dude in "The Big Lebowski," this and so many hard working areas of New York City will abide. Other parts of the city, where gang crime, drug dealing and vagrancy fester, will get worse and worse, but such places are easily ignored by champagne socialists.

Another reason why Mamdani should have smooth sailing into a second term is that his base is transplants, young adults in their 20s and 30s who come to New York City to live it up, knowing full well that they will settle down somewhere else. To them, a little crime might as well be the mustard on a Nathan's hot dog.

Maybe it is hopeless for Republicans in Gotham. Maybe things will never get bad enough again, for everybody, that a new Rudy can emerge, and given how the original is treated today, who would want to be that person, anyway?

No matter how bad it gets, the city will blame Presidnt Donald Trump. Or Vice President JD Vance. Or racism, Islamophobia or whatever they can think of. Not for nothing, they'd have re-elected De Blasio if they could've.

Right-leaning Gothamites never bought all the Sturm und Drang anyway, and they sure as hell don't let rich guys tell them how to vote.

Elections have consequences, and for the next eight years, at least, in New York City the consequence is socialism. Like sitting at a two-hour recital after your kid has already performed, they'll have to sit through the whole thing.

Those $13 dollar Bud Lights will be the least of it.