“After this campaign, I definitely will be a lot more involved in politics going forward and volunteering for other campaigns.”

These words, from a 27-year-old supporter of Zohran Mamdani, perfectly distills why the fresh-faced candidate for New York City‘s mayor has a lot to teach Democrats nationwide. As Salon’s Russell Payne reported last week, one reason Mamdani has pulled ahead in the polls, despite a coordinated effort between Republicans and old guard Democrats to stop him, is that “Mamdani’s campaign has stood up an army of more than 90,000 volunteers in the general election.” His lead — and likely win — is a rebuke to the calcified wisdom in the Democratic Party that puts fundraising ahead of all other concerns, a practice that has led to a tendency to run elderly centrists who i

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