Tag: Zohran Mamdani

It's the same quality that once defined Barack Obama's presidential election campaigns: controlled tone, steady message, and moral clarity.

The one certainty is that Mamdani has revived hope, thought to be already lost at the hands of the atrocities of the last few months.

While Trump is a powerful force within the Republican Party, his polarising presence is creating substantial challenges for the party in appealing to a broad enough coalition to secure consistent, nationwide victories beyond his core base.

[Mamdani] exploits the oldest leadership characteristic since the Greek polis: charisma.

Mamdani's victory ... marks the starting point of a promising and rising American voice.

[P]resenting the New York mayoral election result as a crushing defeat for Israel, capitalism, the West, and "white identity"...does nothing more but add to an already saturated lexicon of idiocy.

[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.

Mamdani's socialists are not embarrassed when his election is celebrated with swastikas on synagogues, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's socialists in France lean on Muslim antisemitism.

In question is whether the Democratic Party can resuscitate itself in order to gain the broad will of the people.

[T]heirs is not a clash between East and West, nor between democracy and authoritarianism, but between two versions of American destiny.