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The guy trying to shove socialism down our throats is actually a rich kid who lives in a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy home paid for and renovated by his daddy.
By day, Gustavo Gordillo, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York chapter, has appeared on Fox News railing against capitalism and landlords.
“We don’t think that anybody should have the constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment,” he recently said on the cable network.
But by night, the 38-year-old propagandist returns home to rest his head in a single-family Brooklyn home that his father bought through an LLC in 2019.
Before that, from 2016 to 2019, Gordillo lived in a $2,600-a-month apartment on the Lower East Side. The rent was paid by his father’s LLC.
Reached by The Post this week, Gordillo’s father confirmed the cushy living arrangement: “My son and my other son both live there.The LLC purchased the home, and then we did the renovations.”
An immigrant to this country from Peru, his father, I imagine, said this with pride.
He has been successful enough to achieve the American dream — and give his kids a very good life that includes a Yale education and a very nice place to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
That his son would become a radical socialist trying to pull the ladder up behind him is so unoriginal. It’s so cliche.
After all, the more we learn about the DSA’s cult leaders, the more we understand that they’re all rich kids trying to seize power while posing not only as heroes of the working-class, but also active members.
These people have no shame, but they do have family money to fall back on.
They are a frivolous and deeply unserious group that Sen. John Kennedy has cleverly called the “Lulu Lenins.”
There’s Zohran Mamdani, whose rich and successful parents own a compound in Uganda and, up until 2019, owned a Chelsea loft. His resume is as thin as Gordillo’s pencil mustache, but he is now our mayor.
Mamdani’s tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, has called home ownership “a weapon of white supremacy,” despite being raised by university professors in sprawling suburban homes.
Streamer Hasan Piker grew up in the lap of luxury, currently lives in a $3 million Los Angeles home and drives a $200,000 Porche. He has called Mao Zedong “one of the great leaders of this world.“
Their communist forefathers shared the same pedigree. Fidel Castro and Lenin were children of wealth and privilege.
Gordillo’s story is particularly amusing. He came to the United States with his family as a young child and grew up outside of Miami. He graduated from Yale in 2010 with a degree in art and worked in a gallery before claiming that he became a union electrician with IBEW.
But a spokesperson for IBEW told The Post Gordillo is a “lapsed member … meaning his dues are at least 3 months past due.” They said that he was “terminated” from the apprentice training program because he wasn’t participating in the “required work and classes.”
My father was electrician, and it’s a gritty occupation. Upon returning home each evening, he’d bolt straight to the bathroom sink for his nightly ritual. He’d take out a tin of GOOP hand cleaner (not associated with Paltrow’s brand) and scrub, scrub, scrub his hands clean for what felt like a good 20 minutes.
If I had to guess, the only time that Gordillo got his hands dirty was when his $14 matcha latte spilled over the lid and onto his fingers.
His parents own two $3 million homes in Florida. America has been very very good to Gordillo’s family — and this ingrate kid wants to repay our country by dismantling every mechanism that allowed his immigrant parents to work their tails off and become wealthy.
He and his ilk are all overcredentialed, undereremployed and radicalized.
Godrillo is a phony. A fake. A fraud. And he wants the government to take your stuff while he gets to keep his nice things.
