Discontent with the status quo and the political establishment culminated in a perfect storm in New York City, when Zohran Mamdani beat billionaire-backed Andrew Cuomo to become mayor. The win shows how Democrats might beat Trumpism.

Zohran Mamdani facing 9/11-themed attacks from Andrew Cuomo’s political machine and criticism from a billionaire at a Saudi conference, and then being elected mayor of New York on the same day Dick Cheney passes — it’s like the final scene of a drama about this entire era. And yet it wasn’t a Hollywood script; it’s what just happened.

Mamdani long ago cast his campaign as something more than a race to run one city. He told the Lever that “this is the heart of the battle for the future of the Democratic Party.” It’s a theme he’s continued to amplify throughou

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