By Colin Benjamin
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons
New York’s morally challenged mayor, Eric Adams, said this after Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won the New York City’s Democratic Primary, “He’s a snake oil salesman. He would say and do anything to get elected.”
Isn’t Adams guilty here of what psychologists call projection? Surely, the “snake oil” description is 100 percent true of Adams.
Eric Adams embodies the very attribute he is trying to smear Mamdani with. But let’s examine the last part of Adams’ statement here where he says Mamdani, “would say and do anything to get elected.”
Adams was on Fox News, responding to the Fox & Friends mouthpiece, who detailed some of Mamdani’s platform proposals that call for things like funding affordable housing, freezing the rent, free bus service, no cost childcare, and a $30-dollar minimum wage. This is the context within which Adams called Mamdani “a snake oil salesman.”
So, what is Adams saying here? Isn’t he really telling us that he was never a progressive, as he falsely claimed? Also, is it coincidental that he loves fighting against real progressives, like AOC, for example?
Black New Yorkers, who still support this Judas brother, should consider what this also means: Eric Adams will never ever fight for the fundamental economic change that our people so desperately need.
What is wrong with fighting for any of these things that Mamdani is proposing? Adams, most likely, unwittingly, is telling us it is unrealistic to fight for the very things that are hurting New Yorkers economically.
Therefore, why should we defend this scandal plagued backstabber, who now works for Trump and MAGA?
We should remember this: Adams came into office when the death, destruction, and damage, brought by COVID, was still ravaging through our communities, and exposing the longstanding institutional inequities that have kept the system’s knees on Black people’s necks. He also took power in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police, when many in corporate America were making promises to address the inequalities created by American racism.
Given the political temperature of the time, Adams could have pushed progressive programs to help alleviate some of the suffering of working-class New Yorkers. This would have also helped uplift the majority of those who supported him—Black and Latino New Yorkers. Instead, Adams did the opposite.
Clearly, we now know Adams doesn’t give a damn about our communities. He only used Black and Latinos as steppingstones and pawns in his political calculation scheme to gain mayoral power. Adams refused to invest in the very people who elected him, who are suffering the most in New York City.
And since he gained that power, what has Mayor Eric Adams given us besides austerity funding cuts, except for further bloating the NYPD budget?
Why would we think of voting for this slimy scoundrel again?
Assemblyman Mamdani’s progressive platform is what Adams should have been fighting for. These are the kinds of ideas that our people, and the majority of New Yorkers, sorely need to escape from the economic hell they find themselves in. This is why Mamdani made history this week, when multitudes of New Yorkers, particularly young voters, rejected Andrew Cuomo, the corporate Democrat, being pushed upon them by the Wall Street corporate-controlled Democratic leadership.
Somehow, the Democratic leadership decided that someone who was accused of being a serial sexual harassment offender—who may have also covered up the deaths of seniors during COVID—was their choice to be mayor. Democratic voters must, eventually, tackle the out-of-touch so-called leaders of the Democratic Party.
Let’s examine now why Adams was on Fox News calling Mamdani “a snake oil salesman,” as Adams runs for reelection on a right-wing Republican platform.
Eric Adams burned his bridges with the Democratic Party, particularly, when he insinuated the Department of Justice was prosecuting him because he criticized former President Joe Biden, over immigration policies. So, Adams now is attempting to win reelection as an Independent, but Adams was always a Republican. Adams only ran as a Democrat because he understood that running for mayor of New York City as a Black Republican was a losing formula.
So now, Adams is running outwardly as an Independent—but he will now more openly push a right-wing Republican platform. His appearance on Fox News, after Mamdani’s win Tuesday, partly telegraphs this. We should now expect that Adams, who is currently a part of the Trump MAGA coalition, will become a new fixture on Fox News.
Adams knows he is politically toxic to Democratic voters in New York City. Along with his failure to deliver for Black and Latino New Yorkers, the serial scandals have driven Adams approval ratings into the sewer.
Given Adams’ high disapproval ratings, how can he makeup the deficit?
Ever since he announced he was running as an Independent, it was clear Adams would more directly try to appeal to Republican voters. And now that a Democratic socialist, who is also a Muslim immigrant, has won, Adams will lean into the kinds of xenophobic tactics that Republicans are well known for.
Moreover, if Andrew Cuomo doesn’t run, all the wealthy, greedy, Wall Street types (who don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes) along with the genocide apologists, will be throwing mountains of cash to Adams to stop Mamdani.
And, Eric Adams, the ultimate Black-skin snake oil salesman will do everything in his power to deliver for Wall Street and AIPAC.
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