The underachieving Zohran Mamdani does have one qualification to be Mayor of New York, other than his ultraleft politics. He is not American in any meaningful sense — as his own mother confirms:

Mamdani’s filmmaker mom once described the socialist mayoral front-runner as “not an American at all” in a newly surfaced interview about his Indian roots.

Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, made the remarks in a 2013 interview with the Hindustan Times when she was asked about her then-21-year-old son’s upbringing.

Reveals Nair,

“He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”

Nair refers to Americans as “firangs” — a term used in Hindi and Urdu to refer to foreigners. She avers that “We are not firangs at all” (i.e., not American at all).

Technically, Mamdani became a US citizen in 2018. But there is more to being American than US citizenship.

This is why Mamdani is winning despite being an almost inconceivably awful candidate. His opponents are both Americans. That all but disqualifies them in New York, which thanks to massive demographic displacement is no longer an American city.

On a tip from abcanc.