Zohran Mamdani celebrates Nov. 4 at an election night event in Brooklyn after winning the New York City mayoral election.

Well, hallelujah. For Democrats, our 40 days in the wilderness are over.

After Tuesday’s most gratifying general election, finally we can clearly see the way forward. The hand wringing can stop now. Let the real work begin in a thousand ways and in a thousand places to bring back to the fold a deservedly skeptical America.

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It was in plain sight. There is no single face to the Democratic party, and stick to basics. Give the public what they tell you they need. It’s what got Donald Trump reelected, but it’s a strategy he’s foolishly abandoned.

It was pleasing to watch Trump, the great defiler of democracy and a cruel man, receive a well-deserved comeuppance. Every one of his favored candidates, his proxies, lost and lost big. Is this the beginning of the end of King Trump’s reign? It was a question we didn’t even contemplate before this election, but we do now.

And oh yes, we witnessed the humiliating political demise of Andrew Cuomo, of all things, linked to his nemesis Trump. It would seem Cuomo was defeated by a 34-year-old immigrant political neophyte who galvanized and excited New York City voters like........

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