George Will Reveals Jaw-Dropping Take
on NYC's Zohran Mamdani to Bill Maher
Red State,
by
Nick Arama
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
8/10/2025 3:16:01 PM
Once upon a time, George Will was a conservative.
I'm not sure what he is anymore after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden. Even if he didn't want to vote for Donald Trump, voting for Biden seems like a denial of everything he was before. It's certainly not a conservative position.
But what he said on Friday on HBO's "Real Time" with Bill Maher was in some ways even more surprising than that.
Maher and Will were talking about Democrat NYC mayoral race nominee, Zohran Mamdani. Maher went hard against Mamdani, saying he says "the things that communists say.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Citoyen 8/10/2025 3:30:59 PM (No. 1988908)
George Will certainly has gone off the deep end regarding Trump but I can't disagree with his assessment on the benefit of Mamdami winning. DeBlasio was an incredibly bad mayor of New York yet the panic that so many on the right display about Mamdami is strange considering how bad most New York mayors are. If Mamdami wins only New Yorkers will be affected so let them live the result of FAFO.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 8/10/2025 3:34:19 PM (No. 1988910)
George Will lost my interest decades ago.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 8/10/2025 3:49:07 PM (No. 1988913)
George Frederick Will
May 4, 1941 (age 84)
No one escapes the grasp of the Grim Reaper
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jinx 8/10/2025 4:09:00 PM (No. 1988919)
So Will is ready to have New York destroyed in order to teach a lesson.How dumb is that!!!!! The USA fought Communism and lost many of our young men and women to the cause. Have they lost their lives in vain?
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Will and P. Noonan are the leading practitioners of clutch-your-pearls journalism.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 8/10/2025 4:44:47 PM (No. 1988924)
I have a 27 year old son whom I think is making some major mistakes with his life. I can share my concern with him (and get the cold shoulder) but the only thing that he will learn from IS his MISTAKES.
In his case, much like the Mandami situation, it may very well take PAIN to effect change.
I think Will is more right than he is wrong on Mandami.
Just like the case could be made that the USA is NOW better off for having had Barack Obama as President as opposed to either McCain or Mittens who would have 'unipartied' the country into oblivion. Better to have Obama present to then have the reaction to Trump as a result.
Mandami likely wins, NYC is in some turmoil but Mandami cannot bring his hare-brained ideas to fruition by himself. I think he will mostly be stymied by city councilmen and others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2025 4:51:23 PM (No. 1988927)
George Will was never all that smart. He just thought he was. He was just a pontificator who talked but really stood for nothing.. Some things don't change.
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A couple of quotes come to mind:
"You only get to vote for socialism once."
"You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out."
No thank you, George. Stick to baseball trivia.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tootall 8/10/2025 5:15:17 PM (No. 1988937)
I will not be forced to 'pay' to read that George Will is a Putz. O r for any other content either that basically is clickbait!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/10/2025 5:17:15 PM (No. 1988939)
I disagree. Why support the worst possible outcome? We're already seeing a mini-me Zohran popping up in Minneapolis. There will be more.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/10/2025 5:45:33 PM (No. 1988949)
George Will showing his true socialist colors? He's definitely a Washington insider. At least he thinks he is. He thinks people listen to him. He might be surprised how few truly do.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dbdiva 8/10/2025 6:40:06 PM (No. 1988981)
Zohran will hammer the final nail into NYC's coffin IMO but that could be the overall goal. The only One Who will be able to save NYC from "Z" is God Himself. Of course He may very well allow him to elected in the hope that FINALLY New Yorkers will learn a very hard lesson. Who knows? Can that lesson be learned.....at all? But when that horror show limps to a very sad end, God will be there with restoration in mind.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/10/2025 6:52:03 PM (No. 1988985)
Oh sure, there's something to be said for experiencing pain in order for us to wake up and see just how messed up things can get. But isn't it more likely that if he WINS and GETS IN he would have the whole arsenal of Dem tricks and media cover at his disposal to dismiss any responsible ideas and to basically do WHATEVER he wants?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franco 8/10/2025 8:53:04 PM (No. 1989041)
Will should have retired in 2008, when Obummer was running and he was already past the accepted retirement age of the time. Then his conservative bona fides would still be intact. Some elder statesmen in the news analysis business are worth reading even now. Thomas Sowell doesn't publish much today, but when he does, I make sure to read it. Will, not so much...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/10/2025 8:54:46 PM (No. 1989043)
In the Town Hall article preceding this Red State article, posted by the same OP, is the following blurb: "Perhaps Mamdani should get elected, driving the already ruined city to enjoy Detroit’s fate. After all, H. L. Mencken had a point: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Perhaps New Yorkers haven’t gotten it hard enough." How is that different from what George Will was quoted as saying in the Red State article? The Red State author, Nick Arama, led with his statement that Will used to be a conservative, followed by "I'm not sure what he is anymore after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden. Even if he didn't want to vote for Donald Trump, voting for Biden seems like a denial of everything he was before. It's certainly not a conservative position." That's red meat on L.com. Arama was careful to not remind his readers that in 1987, Trump registered with the Republican Party in New York. In 1999 Trump ditched the GOP to register with the Independence Party of New York, and ran in the presidential primary for the 2000 election. After pulling out of the presidential primary under the Independence Party banner, a sub organization of the Reform Part. Trump in 2001, changed his party affiliation to the democrat party. In 2009, in the middle of Obama's presidency, Trump returned to the Republican Party; however, in 2011, Trump, after leaving the GOP again to vote as an 'independent,' donated $5,000 to Kamala Harris' reelection campaign for California AG. Trump re-joined the GOP in 2012 and began planning his run in the 2016 election as a Republican, in which he defeated Hillary. Thankfully, the '24 version of Trump is quite different than his own political history would suggest but Will is lambasted in the Red State article and in the comments on this site, for his head-scratching political behavior, while Trump's many non-conservative political samplings are ignored.
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The Murdoch media supported the election of Adams and is now urging New Yorkers to go back for seconds.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/10/2025 11:01:55 PM (No. 1989069)
In other words, according to Will, let New Yorkers commit municipal suicide. Really? That’s the best he can do? An idiot!
Is that what you wish on your fellow citizens? And who will bale them out? Other taxpayers. Yeah, that will teach ‘em, George Will. An idiot! And mean too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/11/2025 1:06:42 AM (No. 1989081)
Who paid him and how much?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/11/2025 5:56:11 AM (No. 1989092)
The author has, entirely, the wrong take on Will... He's not just wrong, George Will Is absolutely EVIL! His posture is the equivalent of releasing a deadly toxin so we know next time not to do so!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/11/2025 9:31:07 AM (No. 1989184)
First of all, I didn’t realize George Will was still alive. Second, I see his point. Let NYC experience what they are stupid enough to vote for. However, it is a fair point that when the socialist city of NYC fails, the voters will be too stupid and gullible to understand that socialism was the problem.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Sully 8/11/2025 10:38:17 AM (No. 1989222)
George Will is poking his head out now? He was big during Reagan and increasingly irrelevant during every single admin since.
Then Pres Trump came along and actually accomplished every single policy and culture war goal Will had been gabbing about for 40 years, but he was course, so Will opposed him. And then we knew he was a phony peacock.
Will should join up with Carville and open the "Dead Mic Nursing Home" for formerly relevant oppinionators.
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