For well over a century, New York has been seen as a citadel of capitalism at its most ruthless and an imposing symbol of US power. That was why a band of Jihadists attacked it on September 11, 2001, killing almost 3,000 people, and why this week’s election as mayor of Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim who hates Israel and says he is a socialist, has left so many scratching their heads and wondering what is going on.
Most observers agree that Mamdani owed his victory to his popularity among the large number of New Yorkers with recently awarded college degrees who, to their dismay, have found it far harder than they expected to make ends meet in a city in which almost everything is much more expensive than elsewhere. Greatly impressed by his youth, his winning smile and, most of all, by his promise to freeze rents, make public transport free and set up city-run grocery stores that will undercut the money-grubbing mom-and-pop shops, they decided he was t
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