To my eyes, it’s a strain to make Mamdani’s victory an immediately representative national story, but his coalition does suggest one lesson for national Democrats. In recent years, we’ve gotten used to looking out at the changing landscape of politics and seeing a right-wing alliance of working Americans and wealthy people, united by disdain for a professional managerial class seen as liberal scolds. Mamdani’s win illustrates a different alignment. He brought the working, middle and upper-middle classes together in what I called back in July an “emergent coalition of the precariat”
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