It’s been a rough couple of weeks in world news. A lot has been going on that I’ve felt moved to comment on but haven’t had the heart to actually write it down. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC primary is a ray of sunshine in otherwise very dark times. It’s a powerful reminder that progressives can win even against massive entrenched interests. In the final weeks of the race billionaires and powerful centrist democrats such as Bill Clinton were pouring millions of dollars and coveted endorsements, respectively, into Cuomo’s campaign in what amounted to an attack on Mamdani. The attack failed. The voice of the people could not be silenced. Big as New York is, on the scale of everything else going on in the world this is kind of small potatoes, but a win for progressives anywhere is a victory for progressives everywhere. I’ll take it.
