The shockwaves from Tuesday’s monumental election results are still reverberating, both regarding Zohran Mamdani’s epic win in the New York mayor’s race and the massive gains Democrats made in virtually every election across the country — a clear rebuke of President Donald Trump . The takes are flourishing too. Below are some of the most interesting ones.

. Will Mamdani survive the machine?

At The New Yorker , Eric Lach frames his look at the road ahead for Mamdani and New York around a 1903 take by Lincoln Steffens in McClure’s magazine about the often doomed efforts of reformers to take on the Tammany Hall machine:

Certainly [Mamdani’s] a different stripe of outsider than the genteel reformers who emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, or the Progressives who came a

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