There is a term for this. Spencer Pratt used it correctly on X: “the useful idiot.” The gullible supporter who cheers the revolution enthusiastically right up until the moment the revolution turns its attention to him. Scott Galloway is the useful idiot of the week.
Galloway is a popular left-leaning podcaster and NYU business professor who backed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City. He believed in the progressive tax vision. He supported the class warfare rhetoric. He was on board with making the wealthy pay their fair share. And then Mamdani published a searchable database of 950,000 New York property owners — names and addresses included — as part of his pied-à-terre tax rollout.
Galloway’s own name and address were in it.
The communist refers to this person as the “useful idiot”. The gullible squish who foolishly supports the revolution, and only begins to understand his folly as he’s being lined up against the wall. If you think you’re safe from the commies cuz you vote blue, wake up: https://t.co/qGNbnBI9yE pic.twitter.com/8U8eY2x6fd
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 1, 2026
His response, delivered on Fox News with the pained expression of a man processing an unpleasant lesson, was genuinely worth hearing: “He’s taken a legitimate source of tax revenue, and he’s turning it into a wanted poster. The question I would have is, other than trying to identify and imply these people have done something wrong — and then, 18 months after a healthcare CEO was executed in the street, published the list — what is the upside here? Why is he doing this?”
That is exactly the right question. It just comes about six months too late.
“i never thought he would come after ME! he’s supposed to just go after THEM!”
sucks to suck, huh? https://t.co/bdHw1lycme
— Phil Labonte ?? (@philthatremains) August 1, 2026
The healthcare CEO reference is not incidental. Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last December. The political left celebrated it. Manifestos were written. Social media posts called Thompson’s death justice. And in that environment — in a city still processing what happens when class warfare rhetoric meets a man with a weapon — Mamdani published a database identifying the names and home addresses of nearly a million New Yorkers he has spent his entire political career portraying as parasites and class enemies.
"you weren't supposed to put my name on a wealthy doxxing hit list" is just simply the new "why are you throwing me against the wall?" https://t.co/cVBTNul2Gp
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 1, 2026
Galloway now understands why that’s dangerous. He was unable to see it when it was theoretical. He sees it clearly now that his own address is on the list.
Stephen Miller — the writer, not the advisor — captured the dynamic perfectly: “You weren’t supposed to put my name on a wealthy doxxing hit list” is just the new “why are you throwing me against the wall?”
Galloway’s parting observation is the most revealing thing he said: “He’s not only playing into the worst fears about him, but he’s making it harder for all progressives.”
Note what he didn’t say. He didn’t say Mamdani is wrong to vilify the wealthy. He didn’t say the class warfare rhetoric is dangerous. He said it’s bad politics. He said it makes progressives look bad. The concern is messaging, not morality.
That’s the useful idiot in full: bothered not by what Mamdani is doing, but by how it looks while he’s doing it.
The database is still online. Galloway’s address is still in it. The revolution doesn’t care about your podcast.
