The young feminists who helped elect Zohran Mamdani would rather have apartments and pets than houses and families.
Young women love Zohran Mamdani in part because they don’t have husbands to love. The doting devotion young women have traditionally bestowed upon their spouses and families has been redirected.
As marriage rates have declined among young people, their love and attention have been diverted to social causes. Young women are more passionate than ever about abortion, so-called social justice, and other Democrat pet projects. With the election of Zohran Mamdani to be mayor of New York City, their leftism now has a face and a name.
Mamdani couldn’t have won his race without the help of 18- to 29-year-old women. Eighty-four percent of them voted for the trendy communist, compared to the 64 percent of young men who voted for him. Exit polling showed that young women also helped pull Democrat candidates such as Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger across the finish line in their gubernatorial races.
Left-wing politics are predatory. Democrats make emotional arguments — about “empathy,” “equity,” contrived “rights,” and “safety” — which largely appeal to a notoriously emotional demographic. In fact, Democrat leaders want the government to fill a husband-like role, making their constituents dependents of the state — and they’ve been working toward it for years. Remember former President Barack Obama’s “Life of Julia” campaign in 2012, for instance. Playing on female anxieties about college, health insurance, motherhood, and career, Democrats made women feel vulnerable and presented the government as a sort of benevolent husband for every point in “Julia’s” life. Compared to Mamdani’s radical communist agenda, Obama’s vision feels tame, but it offered Democrats a playbook for targeting young women.
Conservative logic often takes a backseat to left-wing talking points. Abortion advocates cry “my body, my choice” to make young women feel empowered, while simultaneously stripping them of agency and true femininity. Social justice warriors tell them “love is love,” “diversity is strength,” and “silence is violence.” Corporate media post photos of crying illegal aliens facing deportation to show how cruel American border enforcement is. Democrats rely on emotional manipulation to get their base out to vote.
Many of these young women are also crippled by student loan debt. Gen Z has the fastest annual student loan compound interest rate, a whopping 6.72 percent. Almost half of Gen Z has student loan debt. The good careers they were promised from their overpriced colleges aren’t as readily available as they had hoped, either. With a staggering number of entry-level positions being outsourced to foreigners or AI, there is less chance they will earn a salary that chips away at their compounding interest.