Even Democrats know this was wrong. That’s how far Zohran Mamdani has gone.
New York City’s socialist mayor announced a new pied-à-terre tax on second homes last week — taunting the wealthy homeowners who would pay it in a social media post designed to humiliate them publicly. Then his administration published a searchable database containing the names and addresses of every property owner who might be subject to the surcharge. Over 960,000 entries. Names. Addresses. Published online. By the mayor who had spent his entire campaign vilifying these people as enemies of the working class.
Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine went on The Huddle podcast and said what every honest person was thinking: “It’s stunning.”
Dem strategist Dan Turrentine blasts Zohran Mamdani for publishing the names and addresses of wealthy New Yorkers subject to his new tax.
"It’s so irresponsible and I think in an era of social media — we talk about Trump being very into optics and presentation, so is Mamdani" pic.twitter.com/rEHGDrSGCI
— Jeff Charles, Asker of Questions? (@jeffcharlesjr) July 28, 2026
He walked through the logic that Mamdani apparently didn’t consider. “What if a mayor put out all the people on food benefits, public housing, SNAP and said, ‘gosh, these are the people who make me pay high tax rates because there are so many people on the public dole?’ How outrageous is this? People would be horrified.”
He’s right. The left would destroy any Republican who published a searchable database of welfare recipients. But publishing the personal addresses of nearly a million people Mamdani has spent months portraying as class enemies — that apparently requires a Democrat strategist to point out is irresponsible.
Because irresponsible is the kindest word for it. Glenn Beck named it more precisely: “He just doxxed the very people he has been villainizing throughout his entire term. You can’t claim innocence when you create a target list.”
Mamdani just sent a deadly signal to the Left. He may call his new second-home tax database "transparency." But he just doxxed the very people he has been villainizing throughout his entire term, including people who supported him. You can't claim innocence when you create a… pic.twitter.com/7IaMs1hywf
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) July 28, 2026
That’s exactly what this is. Mamdani spent his campaign filming ads in front of Ken Griffin’s home, calling wealthy second-home owners parasites, and mobilizing his activist base around class resentment. Then he handed that same activist base a searchable database of names and addresses. And Turrentine spelled out exactly what comes next — because in a city of 8.5 million people, not everyone is a reasonable person:
“Do I think that if someone’s wife is walking, not that they’re all men, but a spouse with the kids are walking out and someone has their photographs and screams, your husband or wife is an SOB and you’re rich, get outta here. Yeah, in a city of 8.5 million people, I think crazy folks could hear that. It’s so irresponsible.”
The list itself has a separate practical problem that city Council Minority Leader David Carr flagged immediately: it includes potentially thousands of properties that don’t actually qualify as second homes or whose owners will successfully dispute the designation. So Mamdani didn’t just doxx nearly a million people. He may have doxxed many of them incorrectly.
New York City elected this man. He’s been in office for months. Government grocery stores. Rent freezes rigged by packed boards. Threats to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. A doxxed list of nearly a million homeowners published online.
This is what socialist governance actually looks like. Not the campaign poster. This.
