Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave?

That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles on the unnerving election of socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Make no mistake, his faction of the Democratic Party absolutely has momentum after the win. So right now, much of the national political discourse is focused on the “meaning of Mamdani.”

I grew up in California, the Bay Area, and got used to “fringy” leftists in local government. But to see an American city as massive and iconic as New York fall under the sway of a man fond of quoting Karl Marx is certainly a significant event. How did this happen? Will his playbook truly be replicated elsewhere? Is this style of politics truly the future of the Democratic Party?

To answer those questions we have to first diagnose how Mamdani pulled off this victory

Was it just Mamdani’s consistent message of “affordability” and his endless promises of free things that won the day? Was it all because of the arrival of hordes of young, college-educated “wokes” to the city? This graph certainly paints a dramatic picture. New York, the old New York, would almost certainly not have voted for him.

Mamdani won due to transplants and lost among people from New York City. pic.twitter.com/onC9StFuAf

Did Mamdani win because of the massive surge in Muslim voters in the city? There are now more Muslims than Jews in the Big Apple. Are the politics of the city simply becoming like London?

Or perhaps at the end of the day, Mamdani just got “lucky.”

The son of a Bollywood producer ran a slick campaign, focused on a few issues that were........

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