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The Independent
05-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Former liberal climate activist says Mamdani is ‘selling a fantasy'
A former liberal climate activist who now embraces conservative ideals claimed young New York City voters who cast their ballot for the mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani are misguided, and that his policies will make them poorer. Lucy Biggers, a 35-year-old woman who once heavily advocated for environmental-saving policies but has since abandoned them, is using her social media following to promote her new beliefs that align more closely with Republicans: lower taxes, less regulation, and less government intervention. She has also downplayed the current impact of climate change on weather. Taking to TikTok, Biggers tried to relate to Mamdani's supporters by saying she, too, would have loved a candidate like Mamdani when she was young, but she now sees his policies as flawed. Referring to young voters as people with underdeveloped frontal lobes, Biggers said Mamdani appealed to the group of voters by selling them a fantasy that ultimately doesn't work.' 'You're indoctrinated as a young person in America to believe that capitalism is bad and all your problems is because of these evil business owners,' Biggers said in her TikTok video. 'I have to warn young people who are caught up in the Mamdani vibes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions,' Biggers claimed. Mamdani, who conservatives have portrayed as a radical socialist, has said he wants to implement a freeze on rent-stabilized apartments, expand free fares on city buses, open a city-owned grocery store, and raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. His policies seek to create equality in the city, which is widely popular with Democratic voters. Ultimately, he beat the established Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary last month. However, Biggers believes that raising taxes on the wealthy in the largest city in the United States will drive them away, forcing lower- and middle-class taxpayers to foot the bill for government-paid-for policies. 'His policies are not going to be the things that fix our city or our government. The policies that we really, really need is less regulation, less taxes,' Biggers asserted. The social media personality told the New York Post that young people glorify socialism because 'they don't know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR.' Seeking to relate to people on TikTok, Biggers claimed she 'helped' get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Representative in New York, elected in 2018. At the time, Biggers worked for NowThis, which filmed a video with Ocasio-Cortez that went viral. However, YouTube channels like The Young Turks had already been profiling Ocasio-Cortez before the NowThis video. Biggers now works for The Free Press, a right-leaning online media organization that sought investments from David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, Howard Schultz, and more. However, from the TikTok comments, it appears Biggers has not convinced a major audience of her beliefs. Many cited her place of employment as a major influence on her anti-Mamdani rhetoric.
New York Post
05-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Former AOC backer has stark warning for young Mamdani fans: ‘They're selling a fantasy that doesn't work'
A former AOC supporter has come out with a stark warning for young Big Apple voters in the wake of socialist Zohran Mamdani's Democratic primary victory. 'If I was 25, I would've been obsessed with Zohran,' Lucy Biggers admits in a video she posted last week on X. 6 Lucy Biggers says socialist programs don't work because rich people flee to avoid higher taxes. Lucy Biggers/X 'Now I'm 35, and I've grown up. The feel-good promises of free college, free food, free housing might sound great, but they don't work.' She goes on to explain her view that socialist policies make cities poorer because rich people leave, while everyone else is left stuck with higher taxes — and little to show for it. 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.' 6 Biggers said she was really taken by AOC when they met in 2018 and they were both in their 20s. Lucy Biggers/Instagram Biggers, who works in media, says she helped propel AOC from a virtual unknown to political juggernaut in 2018. 'I met AOC when she was basically a nobody. And I really thought she had something special going on, so I booked her for an interview at our studios,' Biggers told The Post. She produced a viral video for progressive social media site Now This which Ocasio-Cortez' campaign ended up paying to promote on social media. 6 Biggers was a big supporter of AOC back in 2018. Lucy Biggers/X 'They downloaded it, and they used it as a campaign asset . . . they used it as a digital ad,' said Biggers, who's now social media editor at The Free Press. AOC shockingly defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic Primary for New York's 14th Congressional District, before she went on to win the seat in the midterm election that November. 'The video got her message out. At that time, no one cared about AOC, she was not on cable news,' Biggers recalled. 6 Ocasio-Cortez was a big boost to fellow socialist Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign for NYC. LP Media Fast forward seven years, and Biggers, who now is a homeowner and a mother of two in Connecticut, is seeing things a bit differently. She said the pandemic and the impact of government spending was a big turning point. 'As you grow up, you start to see the world less black and white. You can't sell this bill of goods that promises to create a utopia in America,' said Biggers, who works in the city. 6 Biggers said she met AOC on a few occasions back in 2018. Lucy Biggers/Instagram 'There's a glorification of socialism among young people. They don't know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR. They glamorize these countries and are indoctrinated into thinking the US is bad. It's very naive . . . it's embarrassing,' she said, reflecting on her own views back then. Voter energy behind Mamdani is authentic, but the enthusiasm is entirely misplaced, Biggers said. 6 Biggers said she is seeing many parallels between Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani. William Miller 'It's young people who want to make a change. And he ran a really great campaign honestly,' she said. 'But I just think it's selling a fantasy that ultimately doesn't work.' Ocasio-Cortez' and Mamdani's offices declined to comment.
