The New York Post is increasingly turning what’s left of its firepower on Zohran Mamdani, the left wing Democrats odds-on to take the city’s mayoralty in elections next month.
Yesterday the tabloid splashed with the headline “Mam-child” and the strap “Beware, NYC is no toy to hand to nepo baby like Zohran”, plugging a piece by its columnist Kyle Smith.
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Deriding Mamdani’s bid for City Hall as an “internship for a silly rich kid who wants to inflict his dopey college-seminar thinking on eight million people”, Smith mocks him as a “nepo baby” (“a term for a person who has gained success in a field due to their famous parent’s influence and connections”, m’lud). Ridiculing his age of 34, Smith frets that his supporters are “so young they don’t remember when there used to be items on the news about oxymoronic Soviet supermarkets”, something not actually rare in a city with a median age of 38.
Still, it’s good to know the Post is anti-nepo baby. Its owner is Lachlan Murdoch, the businessman who possesses it solely because his father bought it and passed it on to him. And it has thrown its weight in the mayoral race behind Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor whose career in politics stems from the fact that his father, Mario, a considerably more successful NY governor, was good at it.
Mamdani’s parents, meanwhile, are a Ugandan academic and the filmmaker behind Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Still, in Post-world, he’s the nepo baby!
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