Fox News Is Reclaiming Economic Populism — Leaving Trump’s ‘Con Job’ Excuse Behind

Colby Hall Nov 11th, 2025, 11:52 am

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In the week following Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the New York City mayoral race, Fox News did what Fox News reliably does with unfamiliar left-wing figures: it reached for the culture-war playbook. A Ugandan-born Democratic Socialist who grew up on the Upper West Side and became the city’s first Muslim mayor — you couldn’t create a better political foe in a Rupert Murdoch-owned laboratory.

But while Mamdani made for excellent character casting, he wasn’t really the story. What New Yorkers responded to was not his résumé — a 34-year-old democratic socialist with limited executive experience — but the agenda he ran on: affordability above all

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