Monday, August 31, 2026
Furthest Thing From the Working Class
Things have gotten so bad that the New York Times has noticed. The subject of the Times story is Gustavo Gordillo, co-chairman of the New York chapter of the DSA. Gordillo has stopped talking to the press after a reporter asked him where he lives. Gordillo claims to reside in an apartment in Crown Heights, but it turns out that he really lives in a $1.5 million row house in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The house was paid for by his father, also named Gustavo Gordillo. The elder Gordilla is the founder and CEO of Draft Pros, a telecommunications infrastructure design and construction company with eight national and international offices.
Gordillo Jr., the socialist, went to Yale and studied sculpture. He now claims to be a union electrician, but the union says his “enrollment in an apprenticeship program was terminated in March of this year after he failed to complete the required work.” So in other words, he is a complete fraud.
Like the rest of the organization that he leads. A friend comments, “Now do Mamdani.”
Also, David Strom:
If you look at the leaders of the DSA, it's hard to find anybody who has worked a day in their lives at anything that could be called a "job." You could slap the term "heir" or "heiress" to their bios, and few people would bat an eye. They are Marxists in more ways than one: their daily bread is handed to them by over-indulgent people around them, who egg them on as they pursue "social justice."
The DSA co-chair in New York City, who helps run the organization that Mamdani, AOC, and all the red-diaper babies get endorsed by, lives in a cozy $1.5 million duplex-turned single-family luxury home bought and renovated by his wealthy father. While it was being renovated, he rented a place, but stiffed the landlord on the rent. He pretended to be a union electrician, but like so many socialists, he failed to put in a day's work and was let go.
