Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel

Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.

JFK had the speechwriter and strategist Ted Sorensen.

Donald Trump had the Machiavellian operative Roy Cohn.

And Zohran Mamdani has . . . Ms. Rachel.

Why would the man about to be sworn in as mayor of America’s largest city elevate a woke, anti-Israel YouTube children’s entertainer to his inner circle, appointing her as a prime member of his inaugural committee?

Simple: Because Mamdani himself is a child.

The statement is both literally and figuratively true.

At 34, New York’s mayor-elect has held no job of any real significance.

He has no experience running anything, managing anyone, or dealing with challenges on any scale.

But he also belongs to a cohort of young, privileged Americans taught by radical college professors that politics is the art of throwing public temper tantrums, making ludicrous pledges, and worrying not at all about how to fix anything in the real world.

It shouldn’t be all too surprising, then, that Mamdani would turn for inspiration to Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Anne Accurso), whose latest video teaches a stuffie named Bean Bear how to use the potty.

At 43, she’s old enough to be Mamdani’s cool adjunct professor, introducing him to Karl Marx and inviting him to his first walk-out for Gaza.

And her public persona, just like Mamdani’s, is a political drag show involving smiling a lot and speaking sweetly while pushing the most unhinged progressive agendas imaginable on an audience not nearly mature enough to know any better.

Two years ago, for example, Ms. Rachel was forced to briefly step down from her platform — which currently has a mind-boggling 18.3 million subscribers — after she had an androgynously dressed colleague with facial piercings introduce the tots at home to a gender-non-binary puppet by sweetly cooing “their name is Patches.”

And when Hamas’ marauders crossed the border into Israel and slaughtered men, women and children in their homes, Ms. Rachel was silent, emerging only weeks later as a vocal champion of the only toddlers whose lives she holds dear — Palestinians.

Earlier this year, she sat down with the former Qatari-paid shill Mehdi Hasan to talk about “the precious children [who] have been un-alived in Gaza,” repeating claims that were as laughingly inaccurate as her grammar.

You shouldn’t count on Mamdani’s other consiglieri to right the ship, either.

That list includes luminaries like Cynthia Nixon, everyone’s least-favorite “Sex and the City” cast member, and parenting podcaster Katia Reguero Lindor, the wife of New York Met Francisco Lindor.

Throughout the mayor-elect’s campaign, much attention has been paid to Mamdani’s anti-Jewish sentiments, from his refusal to condemn such phrases as “globalize the Intifada” to his affiliation with known supporters of terrorism like Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom federal prosecutors named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

These decisions speak volumes about Mamdani’s moral character, but his selection of Ms. Rachel is more troubling still.

It shows not only Jews but New Yorkers of all persuasions that their new mayor’s inner circle is populated not by seasoned and serious adults passionate about governing, but by influencers best known for their rendition of “The Wheels on the Bus.”

If you’re wondering what the next four years under Mamdani portend, spend a few minutes on Ms. Rachel’s channel and ask yourself if this is the person you’d like to have the mayor’s ear when it comes to instructing the NYPD, say, or coming up with a sensible and realistic housing policy.

And ask, too, why the child mayor, having his pick of advisors, chose a social media star just as famous for her crazed political views as she is for getting kids to learn their ABCs and their zoo animals.

Any competent and committed public servant should have known better than to allow someone like the cloying kiddie crooner pushing lunatic ideologies anywhere near the levers of power.

That Mamdani rushed to anoint Ms. Rachel as his advisor is further proof, as if any further proof was needed, that New York is about to be governed by the most infantile crew ever placed at the helm of a major American municipality.

Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.