New York City elected a mayor.

What it increasingly appears to have received is a candidate for higher office.

Watch enough of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s appearances and a pattern begins to emerge. The stages grow larger. The audiences grow broader. The causes become more national and international. The rhetoric becomes less municipal and more ideological.

The directional signs in this cartoon are not predictions. They are observations.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers continue to wrestle with decidedly local........

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