Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.

Democrats are not just losing arguments; they are often losing the room. The problem runs deeper than messaging. It is a crisis of attention and, beneath that, a crisis of credibility. Voters may still tell pollsters they prefer Democrats, yet few believe the party can change the cost of anything they will pay next week. That is a failure of poetry and of prose: campaigns that no longer inspire and governments that no longer deliver.

The party often defines itself by what it opposes — Trumpism, “wokeism” — rather than what it stands for. It hesitates over which communities to defend and which concrete struggles, from childcare

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