Election Day: Sure Zohran's Never Worked a Day, But He's Got That Aura

New York City decides it's time to localize the intifada

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In New York City, it seems a forgone conclusion that the Marxist Socialist Zohran Mamdani will cruise to an easy election to take over the city with his extreme ideas. Tablet has more:

On October 26, Zohran Mamdani held a rally at Forest Hills Stadium—a venue that sits right across the street from my apartment. It was hard not to despair as tens of thousands of New York’s most caffeinated and clinically unstable activists flooded my quiet, tree-lined Queens neighborhood like a swarm of earnest locusts. I decided to treat the ordeal as fieldwork. Stepping outside with what I told myself was a neutral disposition, iPhone Notes app at hand, I talked to his devotees, observed their rituals, and tried, against all odds, to understand what gospel this man was preaching that could make the lunatic faithful sing.

The rally was a fever dream straight out of a left-wing Reddit thread. The air buzzed with the kind of hysteria you get only when politics becomes therapy. Graying baby boomers in anti-Trump T-shirts held up signs warning of encroaching fascism, while a cluster of Orthodox Muslim men sat stoically behind gender-indeterminate DSA members, each sporting the standard-issue nose ring like a badge of moral clarity. I even clocked a man in his 50s wearing a “MAGA for Mamdani” hat. It felt like the entire American political spectrum had collapsed into one anti-Israel, quasi-antisemitic ouroboros of incoherence.