Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani. They Should Have Been Taking Notes. [View all]

An interesting article about how Democrats need to pass the torch and how younger Democrats are winning. It is telling that the DNC forced David Hogg out because he refused yo go along with their old ineffective ways of doing things.

“. . . The race may not be called until next week, and the general election isn’t until November, but Mr. Mamdani indisputably managed to leap from obscurity to front-runner in mere months. He did so by staying relentlessly on message and grounding that message in affordability. Ask an Andrew Cuomo voter for some of his top policy ideas, and he or she will probably struggle to name one. Ask a Mamdani voter, and I bet he or she could name a few: “Freeze the rent,” “free buses,” “a city you can afford.”

Mr. Mamdani also got creative about how to communicate his message. He broke through on social media with viral videos that reached beyond the professionally online crowd. Mr. Cuomo and some of his other rivals derided him as a “social media messenger,” as if that were an insult. They mocked his videos at the debates.

Mr. Mamdani’s viral debate clip attacking Mr. Cuomo for his record of scandal and misconduct racked up over 10 million views on X and over a million more on TikTok. Sure, X is not real life, and virality alone doesn’t win elections, but actually motivating young people to go to the polls sure can.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8.fWBr.DLo5n90C2d-L&smid=url-share