‘MAGA going to lose their minds’: Critics grab popcorn as right-wing prediction collapses

Countless right-wing figures predicted last year that New York City would experience an unprecedented rise in crime under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but after recently published data suggested the opposite to be true, onlookers braced themselves for what some anticipated would be a MAGA meltdown.

Right-wing pundits who predicted New York City’s crime would explode under Mamdani include Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and disgraced conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly, who said he warned his own daughter – who lives in Manhattan – that she wouldn’t be able to go outside “at night or even twilight.”

However, according to recent data released by the New York Police Department this month, the city experienced its "fewest murders [and] shooting incidents in recorded history for the first five months of the year.”

“MAGA is going to lose their minds,” noted Harry Sisson, a prominent liberal influencer and political commentator, in a social media post on X Thursday to their nearly 400,000 followers.

Adam Mockler, another political commentator and contributor to MediasTouch, argued that “somehow, Republicans are going to find a way to be mad about this.”

Countless others sarcastically quipped at Republicans over their blatantly false predictions.

“Exactly what conservatives predicted, right,” sarcastically quipped journalist Zaid Jilani.

“Remember when the Republicans freaked out and said this would never happen?” noted former Democratic congressional candidate Isaiah Martin. “Dorks.”

And Micah Erfan, a Democratic political commentator, argued that conservatives' failed prediction on New York City was just the latest example in a series of “false narratives.”

“And just like that another Republican narrative turns out to be totally false,” Erfan wrote in a social media post on X.