Opinion: Radical decency is New York's answer to Trumpism

For America's shocked and clueless establishment, it has taken almost a decade to find an effective antidote to Trumpism.

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On Wednesday, that changed as voters flocked to embrace what I'm calling "radical decency"- an unapologetic manifesto of people before profits. Of services, not surrender and healing over homelessness.

But its birth was hardly painless. The stunning electoral energy behind Zohran Mamdani, New York's dashing new Mayor-elect, has blasted the centre-left Democratic Party from the funk in which it has wallowed since 2016.

Appropriately, in the very Democratic stronghold that spawned the cash-worshipping Trump juggernaut, Dem

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