The Smile That Ate the City: The Parable of Mamdani

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By Oleg Atbashian
First published at the American Thinker

Even if you haven’t watched the new Amazon series Malice, the piece makes the case for why it’s worth your time - and why it resonates beyond TV.

The smiling Zohran Mamdani look-alike in the series poster is actually Adam - a gifted sociopath and pathological liar who prostitutes himself to rich old men he hates, then worms into wealthy families and methodically wrecks them from within to avenge “capitalism’s unfairness.” The facial resemblance - and the smile - are purely coincidental. Or are they?

I just finished watching Malice on Amazon (6 episodes / 2 nights). Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it as a parable for how we keep ending up with Mamdani-types atop the power pyramid.

Propelled by the “eat-the-rich” mindset, a charming tutor/nanny infiltrates a wealthy family, wins their trust, then systematically sabotages dad (Duchovny) and the kids - class-revenge cosplay in a five-star setting.

The Greece getaway and glossy wealth-porn are the bait. The switch is gradually engineered “equity”: arrests, career hits, family fractures. Malice marketed as justice.

But Adam’s motive isn’t justice so much as a nurtured grudge dressed up as morality. In his case, his father’s collapse becomes a permanent permission slip for revenge (see Obama’s “Dreams from my Father” and other anticolonialism drivel).  It doesn’t even need to be personal - any abstract “unfairness” will do, provided the target is prosperous enough to deserve it (as in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione).

The show leans hard into our politics-by-resentment moment: it’s White Lotus meets Ripley, but with fewer brakes and more rhetoric.

Call it a meme of today’s equity crusades: break something whole, call it fairness, and blame the target for bleeding.

In that sense, Adam isn’t just a fictional character; he’s a malicious policy platform with a disarming smile - a warning to all of us that might have arrived a little late.
 

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RE: ZM the Commie Rat Bastard (or is that redundant?)

The White House meeting was classic Trump: "Okay, enough of the posturing and nonsense, Let's Get Something DONE" and "Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer".

Trumpasaurus is the Grand Master of that.

Yes, President Trump can be an egotistical bombastic blowhard and can seem like an a$$hole at times, but he's OUR egotistical bombastic blowhard a$$hole.....and I sincerely believe he loves this country, and when it matters he knows how to be the bigger man.

RE: Malice

More class-warfare anti-capitalist nonsense and another vehicle to show off David Duchovy's patented style of loutish selfish hedonistic behavior (Fox Mulder was the best character he ever played). Notice they had to work in homo-leftist "gayness" as a central theme in the plot, too, because.......oh, well you know....inclusion.....

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More class-warfare anti-capitalist nonsense and another vehicle to show off David Duchovy's patented style of loutish selfish hedonistic behavior (Fox Mulder was the best character he ever played). Notice they had to work in homo-leftist "gayness" as a central theme in the plot, too, because.......oh, well you know....inclusion.....

I’m with you on the first part of your proclamation. As for the quoted bit at the end - sure, it can be seen that way, but it can also mean the opposite - a veiled exposure of how absurd and ultimately repellent that whole leftist mindset is. Adam’s gay acts are purely transactional - he does it to raise money fast when he needs it. Otherwise he isn’t gay at all: he seduces a family friend’s wife, and she enjoys it. He’s a sociopathic male prostitute; the only times he visits the seedy spots is to earn some cash to bribe the babysitter into disappearing, or to finance his final trip to Greece.

I peeked at Rotten Tomatoes and was surprised by the critics’ rock-bottom score. Then I remembered how politically biased they are: progressive-deviant dreck always gets gold stars, but anything that counters the narrative gets the blackball. So despite the excellent acting, camera, the whole package - tying class struggle and gay sex to a murderous psycho can’t be forgiven.

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