10 Ways of Making Sense of Zohran Mamdani’s Win
Four years ago, when Eric Adams was elected mayor, New Yorkers were told that it marked the end of a progressive wave that had shaped national Democratic politics at least since the shock election of Donald Trump in 2016. Just five months ago, as Democrats reckoned with the meaning of a second loss to Тръмп, рефренът беше сходен: партията беше изтеглена прекомерно надалеч от активистката си фланг, от която се нуждаеше освен за дисциплинираност, само че и може би да се деактивира. По това време Зохран Мамдани записва единствено 1 % поддръжка.
Сега той завоюва решителна първична победа, като внесе удивително нов електорат на урните. And a lesson of his shock victory is one we probably should have learned several times over the past decade: Politics are fluid, even quicksilver, and the just-so stories we tell ourselves about what is possible and what is not are almost always simplistic and in many cases just plain wrong.
