For once, the New York Times is reporting one of those over-heard conversations from an anonymous source who is violating trust to reveal it that harms the reputation and image of a progressive hero, though maybe the Times staff is so far gone that it doesn’t realize the import of the leak.

Former President Barack Obama, the Times revealed, phoned New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani today, November 1. The architect of the foundering progressive take-over of American government and culture spoke with the front-runner for “roughly 30-minutes.” According to the leakers, who spoke “on condition of anonymity” to describe the private conversation, Obama said that he “was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success” beyond the upcoming election. The two (Muslims?) “talked about the challenges of staffing a new administration and building an apparatus capable of delivering on Mr. Mamdani’s agenda of affordability in the city.”

On the call, Obama reportedly spoke admiringly about Mamdani’s campaign. “Your campaign has been impressive to watch,” he told the charismatic communist, according to the sources.

During the campaign (and before it) Mamdani has made it Waterford crystal clear that he supports Hamas and does not believe that Israel has a right to exist. As a watermark of the anti-Semite, he has repeatedly described Israel’s legitimate armed response to the Gazan terror attack of October 7, 2023, as “genocide.” Those not in favor of obliterating Israel might well have regarded these themes in Mamdami campaign for mayor serious missteps. Obama, if the account is to be believed, seems to think being anti-Israel is just hunky-dory, but as we’ve seen, that’s where his party and its most fervent members have been tending for years.

Obama offered to be a “sounding board”—as in coach, mentor, advisor— when Mamdani wins the election, with the two agreeing to meet in person at some point in Washington, D.C.. Mamdani reportedly thanked the former president for the encouragement and told him that he had drawn inspiration for his own recent speech on Islamophobia from Mr. Obama’s speech on race during his first presidential run.

That Mamdani speech was the one in which he implied that voting against him was a sign of bigotry. Yeah, there’s no reason in the world for New Yorkers to be wary of Islam. What did Muslims ever…oh. Right.

A spokeswoman for Obama refused to verify the report, but a spokeswoman for Mamdani said, “Zohran Mamdani appreciated President Obama’s words of support and their conversation on the importance of bringing a new kind of politics to our city.”

You know. Communist politics.

My guess is that Obama is quite ticked off, because this leak almost certainly came from the Mamdani camp, which has seen its candidate’s support dwindle in recent days, though probably not enough.

“Other national Democrats have been reticent to embrace Mr. Mamdani,” says the Times. Gee, I wonder why. He is a pure Marxist, he is supported by the worst of the worst Democratic leaders, he openly favors Hamas in the Gaza conflict, and the whole party is threatening to slide into socialism, a failed system of government based on idealism over reality that, in the words of Reason, “was tried, and failed, repeatedly in the 20th century, racking up a death toll of 100 million lives. “Millions more still live under socialism’s long, dark shadow in North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela,” the libertarian mag adds.

Yeah, that too.

Mamdani, meanwhile, is not just a run-of-the-mill socialist. “He’s a ‘seize the means of production’ kind of guy” who, in the grand tradition of the Koran, advocates hiding his true intent in order to seize power. As a New York state assembly member in 2021, he told the 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference that it’s important to lead with issues in which socialists have popular support (Medicare for All or student loan cancellation), but the movement must never abandon “the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment…we have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.”

Anyone who is surprised that Barack Obama would all but publicly endorse such an anti-American demagogue hasn’t been paying attention. Indeed his “let’s not let anyone know about this for now, okay?” approach exemplifies Obama’s essential duplicity. Barack Obama has always sought to replace core American values with a socialist, “social justice” culture antithetical to the nation’s ideals and history.

The mask was always hanging a bit, but now it’s off.