Reporter Nails Mamdani When He Has Trouble Defining What 'Working Class' Means

We hear it from the socialists all the time: "We're working for the working class." 

This is a whole lot of nonsense; everything they do hurts the working class (not to mention so many others as well). 

But do they even know what the working class is? 

If you listen to what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the well-off son of well-off parents, said to a reporter, you might wonder if they do, as he struggled to define it. 

New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Mamdani whether he and the organization he's a part of, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), have a definition for the working class that they claim to fight on behalf of in elections.

"I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class," Mamdani said.

That's working class? That's virtually everyone. That even lost the New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro. 

When pushed whether he would consider those who make $250,000 per year as working class, he said, “I haven’t asked myself where it starts and stops. 

“What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren’t able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we’re asked how we divide this country. I think there’s only one majority in this country — it’s the working class,” he then rambled.

Confused by the convoluted response, Garcia-Navarro admitted that Hizzoner’s description didn’t seem to “ring true,” to her.

Listen as she pursued him on it, asking, since he wants to raise taxes on everyone who makes over a million, is he saying all those people are "working class" and he offers up a convoluted mess. 

The reporter says that might come as some surprise to a janitor if you were lumping him in with a lawyer, and calling both working class. His response was to pooh-pooh the "fixation on a definition of something." 

Um, yeah? Because definitions actually mean things to people living in reality. If everything is relative, it can be easily changed to fit anything a radical leftist can make it, be it the definition of a woman, the American constitutional republic, or "the working class." He wants to make it sound like it's a big tent, but then it makes it sound like he has no real definition at all. Maybe that helps explain why the socialist contingent seems to be largely activists/permanent students - are they working class too? 

Garcia-Navarro accused him of deflecting from the question by talking about New Yorkers’ wants in “broad strokes.” So it doesn't sound like he convinced her. 

As we see with Mamdani, he spews a lot, such as teasing a threat to lock up the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he comes to New York. 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/20/reporter-nails-mamdani-when-he-has-trouble-defining-what-working-class-means-n2204521