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Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

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The shunning of Mamdani is an important illustration of the state of the Democratic Party in 2025. It shows some unfortunate truths about the party’s center-left establishment and points to some clear steps progressives must take.

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Not only is everything about DSA so unlike my experience working for Cuomo, it is so disparate from my experience of being abandoned by my own party, the Democratic Party of New York.

Young people carried Zohran Mamdani in his victory in the mayoral primary, stunning establishment Democrats and reshaping the electorate. Nowhere was this more clear than the so-called “Commie Corridor,” where young voters had extremely high turnout.

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This is our race. Who’s the we in “our”? Anyone who feels that we the people have to find a way wrest control of the economic future of this country from the likes of Trump, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, all of the billionaires.

If Mamdani becomes mayor, he’ll have the chance to prove something few American socialists have ever gotten close enough to power to demonstrate: that progressive values aren’t just compatible with effective governance—they’re strengthened by it.

It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.