The mayor of New York City is as relevant to your life today as he was last week. And tell me, how relevant was the mayor of New York City to your life last week? Zohran Mamdani’s victory might have triggered waves of excitement on the left in Europe: here we have a socialist who has proven he can win; he will lead a wave of similar candidates in America; that energy will transfer across the Atlantic; and the tidal wave of right wing populism in this continent will be thwarted by a transnational social democrat movement. And this is why Mamdani matters.
You might call it optimistic; I’ll stick with “far-fetched”.
Mamdani is still useful to politics here, however. He has a kind of rakish charm, he knows how to smile (rarer than you might think). His wife is cool.
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