People on X are saying stupid things, my friends, very stupid things.
Meghan, I got news for you: we conquered a wild continent with teamwork, money (some from overseas), and we created communities, which last I heard, consist of more than one person. We worked together, cooperated. I do object to the word “collectivism” but this response is one of the reasons conservatism is losing and the GOP is becoming the Groyper Old Party. These tantrums don’t work.
And this?
Apart from the fact that “Heritage American” sounds like a furniture line from a cheap Chinese vendor, Girdusky appears not to have seen the Irish Catholic Kathy Hochul, who is married to an American of Polish Catholic origin, just like him. Is he saying he’s not a “Heritage American”? Anyway, NYC hasn’t had a “Heritage American” mayor since John Lindsay, and even then he was an anomaly.
There is a discussion to be had about assimilation, and whether it’s an infinitely elastic concept, but not that way.
But this is just noise. Substantively, something much worse is happening, and credit where it’s due, I did find this out on X, although not directly.
Call it “Jewish noise: the practice of seeing an event through an entirely Jewish lens and thereby distorting it.”
That’s not what happening. Something far more sinister is.
In his first act as Mayor, Zohran Mamdani issued Executive Order 1, which revoked every single executive order signed by Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 (the date of Adams’ federal indictment) — not just ones having to do with Jews.
The revocation was framed by Mamdani as a response to the loss of public trust following Adams’ indictment, which he said marked a turning point when “many New Yorkers decided that politics had nothing for them but more of the same.”
This was a blanket purge that wiped out policies citywide, including orders on Rikers Island ICE cooperation, homeless encampment sweeps, and administrative structures for Deputy Mayors.
Mamdani’s stated logic is that any law signed by an indicted mayor is inherently illegitimate, which may be true in some cases, but by wiping them out en masse, he creates a clean slate for his Democratic Socialist agenda.
No mayor has ever done anything like this in the history of the city.
NYC is truly in Year Zero.
But what about the Jewish-specific EOs? Let’s look at them.
Social media chatter claimed that Adams issued a flurry of executive orders in December 2025, but City Record shows he issued only three regular EOs (two-digit series) that month, two of which were Israel/Jewish oriented.1
EO 61 directed a review of existing law regarding peaceful assembly near houses of worship and did not itself impose new rules. Mamdani ordered the exact same review in his second EO, issued January 2, 2026. So the tweet is a distortion of the situation. There are no guard rails now — but there weren’t before Mamdani.
EO 60 (Dec 2, 2025) directed city agency heads and pension trustees to avoid procurement or investment practices that discriminated against Israel or Israeli citizens. Issued in the final weeks of Adams’s term, it was a classic lame-duck policy move.
Earlier, EO 52 ordered city agencies to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism when reviewing and responding to antisemitic incidents. There are plenty of reasons to oppose this. Mainly: what on earth is the “IHRA”? Their website reads like a well-heeled, very international/UN-adjacent organization. That immediately makes me suspicious. Grafting their definitions onto American law is highly questionable. Now that this precedent was set, can we expect more of the same — and worse — under Mamdani, in the other direction? In the U.S., it’s not against the law to be antisemitic — it’s against the law to threaten, harass, or commit violence. It’s the government’s job to enforce those laws, no more, not to adopt a politicized definition of a controversial word.
May 2025, Adams created the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism (MOCA), appointing a local political hack/operator as its head. Along with EO 52, the office was framed as a measure to fight antisemitism. In reality, both were symbolic: MOCA had no enforcement power, EO 52 only guided agency reporting, and the whole setup was staffed and run by political appointees. It did little to “stop antisemitism.” If anything, it fed it.
So I’m really not broken up about the substance of the EOs; it’s the symbol in this case that bothers me. I’m usually the other way around.
I think it’s a bad omen. The clean sweep is a party-style repudiation of the former mayor and everything he stood for. I thought that democrats built on the past. Mamdani is a revolutionist.
I do agree with the tweet above that the buffer zones are a problem; but the truth is that even under Adams this was never nailed down, leaving the NYPD to enforce public safety in a leadership vacuum. It will be far worse under Mamdani.
Emergency EOs (three digit series) are a separate category.