Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani. They Should Have Been Taking Notes.

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5. The fact that people pretty convincingly voted for a leftists candidate

shows that the MAGA campaign trashing leftists mayors is a failure.

I also disagree that they want leftists like Mamdani running cities. If they did, they would not spend so much time trying to convince urban residents that their cities are hellholes.

Yes, yes, I get the counterargument: they are actually trying to convince the rural and suburban residents etc. I simply disagree with that. They want to win in cities too (hence Trump's embrace of Adams, which cannot be explained by the "They really want Mamdani" theory), and to have New York City itself move radically left rather than right or center last night is a devastating psychological blow to that project.