Why Focusing on the Democrats Misses a Meaningful Lesson From Mamdani’s Win

This video was posted shortly after #MamdaniForMayorNYC's primary win...so the fact that I'm linking to it now that #ZohranMamdani is preparing to take office as Democratic #MayorMamdani can be taken to be something of a provocation -- especially in light of recent news about his meetings and appointments.
But I think it is more important than ever that we understand what Stoermer is saying here as we try to #UnderstandMamdani and his wider political significance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOBkSs_BpXE

This City Belongs to You.

On January 1st I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City...and that is because of you!

You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension we can usher in a new era of leadership.

New York, this power: it's yours. This city belongs to you.
Thank you!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4aPjPu6pk

Trump voters for Mamdani and a new left coalition: the biggest surprises from New York’s election

An interview with Michael Lange

He built the coalition that the left always wanted to build: it’s multiracial, it’s young, it’s renters and it’s people squeezed by affordability. He improved considerably with Black and Hispanic voters, working- and middle-class voters, compared to the primary. Plus he further maximized his base of liberal progressives, young leftists, and Muslims and south Asians. He couldn’t have won without making those significant inroads.
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Turnout was significantly higher than I had expected. I thought we might go over 2 million, but it’s closer to 2.3 million – that is a lot of darn voters. There was a decent anti-Mamdani block, who were motivated, but the Mamdani base was also motivated, and that was enough to win.
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every city in America can have their own commie corridor. Urban places are the epicenters of leftwing power in America – because they’re young, people rent and they are places where people are crushed by the inequalities we face.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/new-york-election-trends-michael-lange-zohran-mamdani

Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive”

Jacobin magazine has published the full text of #MamdaniForMayorNYC's acceptance speech:

...while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.

This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.

Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.

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https://jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-election-victory-speech

Photo of #MayorMamdani, taken by my wife, who attended his election night #MamdaniForMayorNYC party in Brooklyn.

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AP has called the race for #ZohranMamdani , as have others.

The question now seems to be how much of a margin he will win by, a question to which we may not have an answer for awhile.

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A landslide begins to seem less likely. Trump's urging people not to vote for Sliwa appears to have had an impact.

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We may be heading for a new era in New York City!

Buckle up, New Yorkers!

Look out, World!

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I'm guessing these figures don't reflect a sudden upsurge in Cuomo's (or Sliwa's) popularity...
but we'll know soon enough!

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