Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, capping a stunning ascent from little-known state lawmaker just a year ago to one of the most talked-about politicians in the country.

Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.

In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises.

With the victory, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    352·
    5 hours ago

    Now that the Dems won EVERYTHING, by WIDE margins, it is clear that the Dems have the upper hand. Here’s what they should do now with the power they just took back:

    • Double down on the shutdown, and demand even more concessions. Nothing less than full compliance will be sufficient. Otherwise, we’ll see where we are a year from now.

    • Adopt a true progressive agenda. What happened to these MAGA Traitors is going to happen to MAGA-appeasing Democrats, too.

    • Primary every weak Democrat - Schmuck Schumer, Jeffries, etc. They are almost as much the enemy as MAGA. If they lose, we get stronger, and if they win, they’ll know they dodged a bullet, and they better get with the new PROGRESSIVE program.

    • Force their hand on everything. Make them reject even reasonable Democratic and Progressive demands. Don’t let them off the hook for anything, then use it against them viciously in the Midterms.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Meanwhile pundits on CNN is calling this a ‘warning lesson’. Anderson Cooper and crowd fear mongering even through victory.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        11 minutes ago

        For the next year, Progressives are dealing from a position of strength, and the Democrats, and especially the MAGAs, are in the defensive position.

        The Establishment Dems will pretend they are all for it, but we know the real truth, and they will be doing everything they can to foil any Progressive gains.

        MAGA has a choice - either ease up and get in step with where the CITIZENS of this country are going, or crack down hard on this budding Resistance.

        They are as fucking stupid as stupid gets, so they will definitely choose #2. For the next year, expect them to be more oppressive than ever, and try to engineer some excuse to declare Martial Law, and suspend the Midterm elections.

        No election has ever been cancelled in American history, not even during the Civil War. If he tries that, his administration becomes officially illegitimate, and every person who occupies a leadership position in the MAGA government should be declared a national security threat, and sent to the new 30,000 bed facility they are building there.

        Oh, you don’t know about that? Oh, yeah, construction is underway at Guantanamo Bay on the biggest detention facility in America, about 20 times larger than the average maximum security prison, and far from the prying eyes of the courts or the media. They clearly intend to lock up a lot of people, and since it isn’t scheduled to be finished around 2029, I suspect they intend to use it to house all the citizens who will protest his third term, which he will win with 98% of the vote.

        And the Establishment Dems will declare the election “Fair & Square,” even as their own voters are all locked up on a hostile foreign island.