Who’s afraid of the big, bad New York Post? Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani refused — again — to take any public questions from Post reporters on Monday, continuing a clear policy even if his campaign doesn’t care to admit it.

What is he afraid of?

It’d be one thing if the Democratic mayoral nominee simply refused to engage with The Post’s columnists and editorial board.

But we’re talking about his attitude toward our news side — which, with the industry’s general decline, at this point is the main local-news gathering operation left in New York City.

His team last sent us a public schedule the day he returned from Uganda (July 30); before that, you have to go back to April.

Nor did they alert us to Monday’s event with Sen. Liz Warren (though they did confirm it when we asked).

Perhaps he’s taking cues from former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who once tried to ban The Post from all news conferences because he didn’t like our questions.

To be fair, we’re seeing a bit more response from the campaign as it staffs up: On Monday, it even gave our reporters a response to some questions.

But the candidate himself doesn’t seem to be on board: He last called on a Post reporter at a press conference on June 20, before the Democratic primary.

He ignored us at his July 30 conference on the Midtown shooting, and again Monday during the Warren presser.

Mamdani certainly knows we’re here, and even realizes we’re a part of the city scene — heck, he’s even taken our name in vain by offering up his proposed Post headlines. Most of them were terrible, though UGANDA MISS ME wasn’t bad.

Perhaps he thinks we don’t matter for winning in November, and that’s his only focus; maybe we just don’t fit into his media strategy.

Or maybe he refuses to risk questions he’s sure he won’t want to hear.

He’d be wrong on any of those points, but the last one would be the biggest mistake — because he’s that reluctant to be grilled even in the slightest, he can’t possibly succeed as mayor.

Which is bad news for all New York — and worse news for Mamdani’s fans than his critics.