The Mamdani panic is easy to mock because it’s designed to work on people like you. Mamdani and his team are very savvy in launching various social media stunts with the explicit purpose of sparking a viral discourse where any criticism of him and his administration is immediately associated with lowbrow, low IQ jihadi fearmongering that he can spin as “Islamophobia.” The idea is to make any appropriate reaction to him seem like an embarrassing overreaction — something that people who care about status and being perceived as rational are particularly sensitive about. It’s honestly a brilliant move on his part because it confuses the whole point of why electing someone like him is actually a really bad sign of things to come. You have to accept CAP’s analysis here because he breaks it down in terms you can understand that would be even more embarrassing to deny.