If you were hoping that New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani’s bark was worse than his bite, think again. He’s already surrounded himself with ideological left-wing shock troops.

Sam Levine, a former top aide at the Federal Trade Commission under anti-business chair Lina Khan, will be the city’s consumer and worker protection agency. Julie Su, a former acting Secretary of Labor under Joe Biden and a close Khan ally, will be the city’s deputy mayor for “economic justice.”

Mamdani’s new “chief tenant advocate,” Cea Weaver, has urged the government to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy.” She said she wants to “impoverish the white middle class.” She says that “we are…  transitioning to treating private property as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity.”

Mamdani is sticking with her, for now. But even if she resigns, the mayor himself would still be there, and he is a true believer too. Mamdani is on video saying: “I get most of my knowledge on housing from Cea, so if you get it from me, it’s just not coming from the source.”