It could happen
Posted on 11/04/2025 5:01:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.
On the cusp of electoral victory, New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani marched over the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday and arrived at City Hall, where he greeted cheering supporters with a promise.
“We stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” he said. Their conviction would “be the light that our city and our nation so desperately need.”
Put differently: His importance won’t stop at the shores of the Hudson.
If public polls are accurate, Mamdani will be elected mayor of America’s largest city in Tuesday's election, his national prominence guaranteed. To do that, he will have to beat Andrew Cuomo, the former governor turned mayoral candidate who has tried to paint Mamdani as inexperienced and ineffective. He must also defeat Republican Curtis Sliwa, who has turned heads with his acerbic quips and omnipresent red beret.
For the progressive left, it will be a signal achievement — the highest executive office ever held by a self-identified democratic socialist in the United States. After a decade that began with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) insurgent presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton — continuing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s improbable 2018 congressional win, the formation of the “Squad” of lefty lawmakers and the pulling of the entire party to the left — Mamdani’s victory would be the capstone of a 10-year ideological project, and give democratic socialists an enormously powerful bully pulpit for the next four years.
Shortly before midnight on the eve of the election, Mamdani offered a glimpse of what could come next. "There are many who say that a democratic socialist vision of governance for New York..."
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When I visit NY I’ll wait no more than an hour for the connecting flight(JFK).
They got NY and Calif. They’re in good shape and Mandamy will expose their shortcomings? I think they won’t stop there.
These cities will be collection points for ICE.
Trump will do this.
Muzzie Santa Clause
True. There is a bright side though—as more useless leeches, parasites and muslims will move to NY,,,thereby, helping other states!
Have never been there, have had zero desire to go and now I know I’ll never go.
There won’t be a problem for the DEMs. The GOP politicians and voters have a complacency problem.
Time for people to start carrying tazers, flame throwers, etc.
Put those comments on the VA election post. Don't be a killjoy - allow us to have at least one post for a little fun.
Which is why it was a good thing we lost today.
We can't celebrate '24 forever.
We can always count on you to be negative about everything. Haha.
Milwaukee had three socialist mayors:
Emil Seidel, 1910-1912
Daniel Hoan, 1916-1940
Frank Zeidler, 1940-1960
Milwaukee is a major city.
From your lips to God’s ears.
Elswhere is where Mandammit belongs. Any elsewhere.
Maybe, but not blatantly, proud and open about it like this radical, extremist nutcase.
Never forgive or forget that idiot Sliwa
VA is deep Blue.
It’s a suburb of DC.
Way too many government employees!
I’m kinda looking forward to the dumpster fire that NYC inevitably becomes. Might be the lesson that Americans need to really understand what communism is all about.
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