Campaigning is the art of hearing people, and Mamdani heard New Yorkers better than anyone., writes columnist Isaac Schorr. AP

On Tuesday, New Yorkers — by a slight majority, but a majority nonetheless — endorsed Zohran Mamdani and the proud, unrepentant form of socialism he champions as the answer to, as least as he presents it, all of their woes.

“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about,” Mamdani declared during his victory speech, an inversion of Ronald Reagan’s famous truism.

At least some of the Big Apple’s lurch to the far left is attributable to the 34-year-old’s undeniable political talent.

But there are greater, or — to be blunt — more sinister forces at work.

Most insidious of all are two inte

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