Bernie Sanders clearly sees the future of his movement in Zohran Mamdani, who is now poised to become the next mayor of New York City. In inheriting Sanders’s movement, Mamdani inherits a daunting set of questions and challenges.

On Saturday, a modest crowd braved on-and-off thunderstorms to pack Brooklyn College’s 2,400-capacity Claire Tow Theater for the latest stop on Bernie Sanders’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. The town hall was far from the biggest stop on the tour, which drew tens of thousands to rallies earlier this year.

For many in attendance, though, this event was freighted with symbolism. It was a homecoming for Sanders, who briefly attended Brooklyn College and grew up close by. And it was the first time on the barnstorming tour that the Vermont senator was sharing the stage

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