CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers both hailed socialist and anti-Semite Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary victory on their Wednesday editions of The Late Show and Late Night respectively. Meyers was especially excited, as he claimed it proved that the “conventional wisdom” of Democrats having to move to the center to win elections “is a load of crap.”

Meyers concluded his “Closer Look” segment by coupling Sen. Bernie Sanders’s recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience with Mamdani’s win, “The point is, Bernie's right. Bernie’s right. All we have is each other. And to the liberals who are always saying we need a liberal Joe Rogan. Are you seeing this? It turns out all you need to do is be more like Bernie Sanders. There's no secret trick. You just need to be genuine. You need to run on ideas that will improve people's lives.”

First of all, you could argue that Joe Rogan was the liberal Joe Rogan because the man actually endorsed Sanders in 2020. But, Rogan aside, Meyers continued, “That explains Zohran Mamdani's historic victory in the New York City mayoral primary last night. Voters just want authentic politicians who will tackle the cost of living crisis with simple, straightforward, broadly popular ideas. It turns out the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to move to the center in order to win elections is a load of crap.”

Progressives like Meyers might roll their eyes at a conservative claiming a Democratic politician is a communist, so let’s let Mamdani’s own social media posts speak for themselves.

Zohran Mamdani is a Communist.