Standing in line for the “New York Is Not for Sale” rally at Forest Hills Stadium Sunday evening meant dealing with a gauntlet of Revolutionary Communists of America reps hawking their newspaper. The headline? “Sick of Capitalism: Gen Z Wants Revolution — Time to Organize.”

It felt like Elaine Benes’ communist boyfriend Ned Isakoff had planned the festivities. 6

And while the rhetoric on stage wasn’t as explicitly commie, the event headlined by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani was a verbal bonfire of the rich. An admonishment of capitalism.

Never mind that two of the featured speakers criss-cross the nation in private jets. Nor that Mamdani himself is rich.

The biggest bogeymen for this crowd were two of the borough’s most prominent sons: President Don

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