Few pairings in contemporary politics seem, at first glance, less alike than President Donald Trump and New York City Zohran Mamdani, a septuagenarian billionaire who remade the Republican Party, and a 34-year-old self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” who became New York City’s youngest mayor in a century. Yet their political biographies rhyme in instructive ways, even as their ideologies point in opposite directions.

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