Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
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The Empire will strike back folks. Brace yourselves and don’t self-congratulate too much, the real fight starts now. Good luck, American friends!
The moment anyone so much as an atom left of center is elected, all the forces and money of the nations ruling class bears down on them to prevent even a baby step of progress.
If anyone wants to see it in action, check out what happened with the Democratic Socialists in Nevada. They were kneecapped on the way in by liberal Democrats who stole party funds to put towards their reelection. And the news syndication there all together slandered the dem socialists till public opinion got them all out.
Yeah but they used sub rate contractors and left holes in sensitive areas.
“It’ll be fine!”
Yes, I’ve heard. Thanks for the news!
Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
Amen, brother/sister
I don’t actually think he will do that much due to how stacked the powers are against him, but I think he has shown to the powers that be how reviled they are, and how they need to start playing ball with progressives if they want to win votes again
My country’s (very politically aligned) public news station described Mamdani as “communist” and “anti-Semitic”.
I am always a bit disgusted by Italian public service news station, this one was particularly telling at how biased it can be.
TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just “extremely targeted attacks against terrorists”
It’s so extremely targeted that it kills kids before they can become terrorist… /s
Pre-targeted strikes
I think you dropped a letter
Pre-K-targeted strikes
🤣🤣
It’s funny until it’s not. They literally called our kids “children of the darkness”, “little snakes”, and “future terrorists” to justify dropping 100 killotons of explosives as of August 2025, the equivalent of 66.67 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
And the world is mostly silent, and Democrats telling us to shut up and vote blue no matter who.
described Mamdani as “communist”
If only it would be true
Is he not a Communist? :(
No, he’s a democratic socialist.
Damn :(
I wish!
No. Democratic socialism is a philosophy that believes in democracy first, socialism second.
They put Democratic in front of Socialist because in America anything leaning towards socialism is seen as authoritarian thanks to Cold War propaganda.
Well they do that because democratic socialism focuses on well-being of the populace rather than well being of the few but admittedly they are fairly toothless as their policies revolve around tax collection rather than the required restructuring of industry that would comprise a socialist system… a democratic socialist can only really affect policy through tax code.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Democratic socialists believe in social programs within capitalism, they do not work against capitalism in any meaningful way.
the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization Zohran is apart of, is a big tent left organization that Includes everyone from reformist socialists to Marxist Leninists, to Anarchists and Maoists.
Name one platform they promote that explicitly opposes capitalism, and then describe how they promote it by running not as independent but within the explicitly capitalist Democratic party.
Americans don’t even know what that is, they think halloween is communism.
Have you ever McCarthy? There are lots of American communists
Not even close.
“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
Trump seems pretty checked out lately, as expected for someone at the very end of the effective human lifespan who already has everything and anything he wants.
I would just love to be a fly on the wall to witness Stephen Miller’s implosion right now. He’s the sack of maggots and feces wrapped in human skin who has been effectively running the country for the last year or so because he has no qualms about taking Trump to the hilt and has earned the old man’s trust that way. He has no power on his own because he’s not liked and can’t capture even a shred of political capital like Trump has, on some level he knows when this whole thing folds he will be completely shut out of politics and may even face prosecution.
Seeing something like Mamdani happen, as well as the blue wave that just crashed over major cities and states yesterday, is a reminder that his clock is ticking and running out faster than he would have liked. Expect to see some wild missteps from the administration over the next several months as Miller goes on an absolute bender and tries to accelerate all his half-baked nazi plans.
Miller might even prefer the outcome where the regime falls around him. He’s a mediocre man with delusions of adequacy, and he’s not at the very top of the pyramid.
There’s something that tends to happen to men like that in regimes like this. What generally happens is that they are “given the courtesy” of being allowed to shoot themselves in the head after a major fuckup. Which will happen, because he isn’t actually good at anything except yelling at people and acting tough.
The worst the democratic socialists are likely to do to him is a trial and prison time. Even if he’s executed, he’ll at least get a trial.
Trump already threatened to withhold funding for the city. Something I have no doubt he’ll make good on.
Lol
facebook is going wild. they are circulating an image from (what they propose) is ISIS endorsing zohran for winning. the best comment was “this is like 9/11 again!”
Can you imagine the level of eternal fear that is required to be a conservative?
Just constant, relentless, crushing, completely ridiculously unwarranted fear. At all times. These people are little bitches.
And yet at the same time, so incredibly sure about everything.
If only we did the most ruthless thing possible in every situation we’d be in a position to be ruthless again tomorrow. Crush every offense no matter how small. They’ll never oppose you again. All for the sake of our perfect race, our peaceful god and the gold in our pockets
What a lovely world it would be
yeah its certainly not healthy for their mental health!
It kind of explains a lot, actually.
Free bus rides and access to food. The humanity!
oh my god! /s
We all remember the cheaper groceries and free bus service on that fateful day.
iSIS and taliban litteraly are much closer to any republican/ conservative idealogly lmao
yeah that’s the part that made me laugh
Hell yeah. Hopefully this will contribute momentum to a larger nationwide socialist movement.
Almost as soon as Mamdani won the primary, the DNC chair did a PBS interview talking about the important part was the platform Mamdani ran on…
And Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
The only way we lose, is if people pre-emptively give up on the party and don’t vote in the primary. So there’s going to be a lot of noise trying to convince people not to trust the new party
Going to be?
There’s already a shit load of that right here on Lemmy.
We got like 30 months till presidential primaries, and the billionaires are not going to talk about how they lost control of the DNC on the media networks they bought for propaganda…
Ignorance is the natural state, everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn it.
But it’s not gonna be a valid excuse for much longer.
But regardless of people’s opinion of the DNC, Martin is going to keep throwing money back at state parties, which is going to keep translating to wins downballot. And he’s not gonna stop a progressive from getting the presidential nomination.
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There’s no “new party”. Democrats won in Virginia by being centrist. Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
But they won. Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right. Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”, but it will be easier to field progressives in the future from Spanberger’s position, than from Winsome’s. And maybe next time, the magical lefty messiah Lisan al Gaib will be running and the choice will be between them vs the centrist democrat, instead of a centrist democrat vs a literal smoothbrained maga dummy.
But they won.
I certainly didn’t dispute that. Both won by running races that best appealed the majority of voters in their electoral areas. People here are somehow mad that we got the governorship of Virginia? The confirmation bias is ridiculous.
Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Yeah, welcome to much of America that isn’t NYC, a major urban metropolis. And Mamdani still had decent opposition from a sex offender. Gonna ignore that? If you try, you could downplay his victory as much as hers but why would you? They’re both wins. Winning shouldn’t divide us. Also, it’s bit easier for a Democrat to win the mayoralty of NYC than it is the governorship of purple Virginia.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right.
I’m happy in either case. All I care about is a pragmatic approach that moves society in the way I most agree with. Allowing Donald Trump to come to power doesn’t qualify.
Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Not to say there isn’t, because we’ve seen that doing so is how you get people like Trump and voter apathy.
Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
That supports my point, it doesn’t dispute it.
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
What the fuck does that mean? Non-biased, is that a joke? People, trying to divide the party to help Republicans win, are obviously biased. I on the other hand accept both wins in NYC and Virginia while you accept only NYC.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
I didn’t express confusion or uncertainty. This is a pathetic argument tactic that intentionally avoids the topic at hand.
Stop trying to divide the party. That’s how you uncompromising ideologues gave us a second Trump presidency.
I think the problem is you don’t understand what the DNC is…
If you chill out and try to have a civil conversation, I can help
You have such a hard-on for Ken, despite the fact that he’s a typical centrist lib who in his own words is happy to continue taking money from “good billionaires”.
I cant wait for the day you realise what he actually is and stop spreading the propaganda.
How about we implement a progressive income tax, no loopholes, instead of fixating on an arbitrary number like fucking dumbasses? How much money CAN one have from which you’d still take money?
Drop the fucking buzzwords. This isn’t a game.
Oh hey it’s this troll again. Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim - What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
Lol, what’s a greater sign of one’s insecurity in their own argument than instantly labeling “troll”. Pathetic.
Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim
Is that how language works? One’s own claim requires an answer? I thought answers followed questions. What do you even think is “bogus”. Fucking income tax?
What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
“Billionaire”. It’s fucking arbitrary and it removes the focus from where it should be. “Centrist lib”, you sound like a Trumper for fuck’s sake.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Oh and ONLY billionaires can put money in politics? Someone with a hundred million, you wouldn’t have a problem with that? What is your cutoff? A lot of rich people put money in politics precisely so they can get tax breaks. So no, they’re not unrelated. And every time you allow a Republican to come to power over the “centrist lib”, you do the super rich a massive favor.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
More pathetic posturing to obscure your weak argument. That’s all this is. It’s not my fault you’re too goddamn stupid to understand either why they put money in politics nor how you actually help them.
Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
To be correct. Ken Martin hates DSA and socialists. Most of his time in Minnesota was spent purging DSA members from the party. Minnesota went left in spite of him.
A single endorsement doesn’t change a decade of fighting progressive politics.
doesn’t change a decade of fighting progressive politics
It doesn’t make Aslam not a representation of Jesus Christ either, since at this point we’re talking make believe…
Where’s any kind of source about “a decade fighting progressive policies”?
It apparently happened for a fucking decade, so obviously you can quickly gather some big and obvious examples.
A-fuckin-men! I hope the dnc also gets their head out of their ass and starts embracing the left side.
The DNC is owned by billionaires, the sort the DNC chair Ken supports and defends their right to play economic kingmaker.
There is zero chance the DNC gets their head out unless a leftist somehow takes over ala Mandani.
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So we somehow made Trump win but also got a Democrat elected? Sound logic.
Yeah, it’s almost like there were separate elections or something.
What a stupid fucking point. Yeah, both are true. 10 million “progressives” handed Trump the presidency in 2024. Now, a much more concentrated group of voters elected a Democrat as mayor pf NYC. There’s no “somehow” mystery about it.
Deranged.
Absolutely pathetic response. You can’t do better than that?
NYC and Virginia are proof that different polities require different approaches.
“Proof”
You know how can I tell when I’m right? When this piss poor attempt at a response is all you can offer.
One or two examples of a thing is not “proof” of anything.
OK then, so Mamdani’s win was ALSO meaningless, right? It doesn’t mean anything about a progressive push in the party?
You see how your arguments works both ways? NYC and the state of Virginia are different places. Why are you so upset that Dems won in VA? They wouldn’t have won there running Mamdani’s campaign because the entirety Virginia is the not the municipality of NYC.
OK then, so Mamdani’s win was ALSO meaningless, right?
No.
It doesn’t mean anything about a progressive push in the party?
Didn’t say that either. It’s not proof that the party is getting more progressive. He didn’t exactly earn their full throated endorsement.
You see how your arguments works both ways?
No. My “arguments” was that that one or two examples dont constitute a “proof” about any grander strategy being used.
. Why are you so upset that Dems won in VA?
Oh I see we’re just doing full blown straw men now.
In that case, it’s the same reason you are so upset about some shit that you didn’t say anything about.
They wouldn’t have won there running Mamdani’s campaign
That’s true. Virginians don’t care about free buses in New York. They’d probably have to make the campaign address Virginia.
because the entirety Virginia is the not the municipality of NYC.
Hard truths here in this post.
Fact is, the more progressive candidate won by 15 points. Not sure how this proves anything about what would have happened had an even more progressive candidate run.
there kinda already is kicked off by bernie in 2015, The DSA (Democratic Socialists America) has made AOC and Mamdani big and also a number of less prominent figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America
So happy to see a clean sweep on EVERY major election across the country for dems and freedom. We cannot take the foot of the gas, the white house is currently working HARD to find ways to take away Mamdani’s win and hurt New Yorkers because they voted against the king.
We need to maintain the pressure.
It is crazy what giving people to vote for something, instead just voting against someone can produce some great results. Mamdani had to take on a class on billionaires and the old DNC leadership he who didn’t want to back him. It is funny af to see Chuck the leader of Dems show vote blue no matter who was fake. He most likely voted for Cuomo.
It is “crazy,” literally. Not being able to distinguish between a capitalist corporate shill like Harris and a literal madman is incredibly dangerous.
There have been so many dangerous reversals under this madman that would have never happened if Harris had won. The destruction of the CDC, environmental protections, radically defunding science and the humanities, ICE kidnapping and disappearing people, and literally tearing down the White House (a metaphor.)
If the prospect of that madman in the White House didn’t strike terror in your heart, there’s something wrong with you.
It’s certainly better to give people something to vote for, not against. But relinquishing self-preservation just because you don’t like what’s on the menu is indeed “crazy.“
“It’s crazy what giving people something to cote for versus just something to vote against can do.”
I agree with your sentiment it’s just the sentence broke me.
Someone uttered the words, “Bernie is unelectable”, and everyone jumped ship.
The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was “I hope you re ready for another 9-11” because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
Or just jail them even when quoting their supreme pedo leader.
(Probably not the best source link but a quick search will surely find more)
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
This was my comparable train of thought… Giuliana was elected so 9-11 could happen! He is fully responsible no? /s
Is that a threat?
Did you ask them why they think that would cause it?
That would be because of photos with the Imam Siraj Wahhaj… Who according to conservatives was organizer of the 1993 wtc bombing… but was not indicted or convicted of anything related to it.
Tbh the part about his views in his Wikipedia article doesn’t sound so good
To be fair, this is a personal 9/11 for every conservative piss baby who lives in an imaginary world where every paranoid delusion they have about Mamdani is real.
They don’t even think of New York City as “real America” in the first place. Connecting this to where 9/11 actually happened doesn’t occur to them.
Happy to see the Cuomo campaign fail and waste all that $$$ in the process. Fuck him
AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.
Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it’s time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.
Wow who would’ve thought that listening to voters’ concerns about the economy, acknowledging their fears, and promising real change to address the most important issues facing them would be a viable way to win elections!
So you’re saying Democrats need to move politically to the right and promote the status quo, to appeal more to centrist voters?
I’m not them but I think there can be a difference in how we appear and what battles we choose vs. what we actually do when in office.
If every time someone brought a Democrat on any show - anywhere - and they just ignored the host and said “who cares, look how bad the fucking economy is”
And that was the only message. Nothing about social issues.
We’d be drowning in votes.
Guess how Dems won in Virginia…
Stop being so fucking simplistic. It’s a huge country and individual approaches need to be geared to what will best work in specific areas.
Feel like your response to my, admittedly facetious, comment is overly aggressive. Obviously tactics need to be geared towards the voters in a given area/election, but the original joke I responded to is that this seems like an obvious tactic that is not utilised nearly enough, and I agree with and was building on that.
none of mamdanis campaign catered to right wing ideas.
No, the comment I replied to suggested acknowledging and addressing voters’ concerns, I sarcastically suggested the opposite.
Obviously tactics need to be geared towards the voters in a given area/election
Sadly, I don’t think that’s very obvious to many people around these parts. It’s full of uncompromising ideologues, the sort that put us in this mess in the first place.
I’m not downplaying Mamdani’s win. They will surely downplay the victory in Virginia.
I’m being heavily downvoted for making an objectively sensible statement based on the available evidence. We need to STOP dividing the party.
I’m being heavily downvoted for making an objectively sensible statement based on the available evidence. We need to STOP dividing the party.
No, you’re being rude and antagonistic to your supposed allies.
And you’re the one here dividing them. People are happy someone won the election, and saying this helps future elections, and you seem offended people are happy about this.
No, people are happy we won THIS election, and so am I. I’m also happy we won in VA. Are you? Or do you deny that the centrist approach can ever work?
All the “establishment Dems” bullshit is how we have Trump again.
I’m also happy we won in VA. Are you?
Probably. I didn’t pay attention to VA, just my state ballot and NYC.
All the “establishment Dems” bullshit is how we have Trump again.
Correct, they lost to the biggest moron twice.
I might hazard to guess that some of the down votes are because of the aggressive tone you took, it doesn’t exactly invite a friendly discussion. I appreciate that politics are a charged subject at the best of times, but I think the anger needs to be channelled more effectively, maybe now more than ever. Which is to say that I fully agree with your statement about needing to avoid division.
No, it the content. People in here will downplay VA when both are important wins. I don’t take this cutthroat view, I’m happy to get wins where we can. I’m tire of people here refusing to acknowledge that more than their tactic can work.
Hard disagree, I’ve not seen a single person disagreeing with your points, only with the way you’ve raised them. Nor have I seen anyone express displeasure about the VA results, despite you talking about how ‘they’ are downplaying it.
In the interest of not stoking more argument, I would urge you to take a moment to read and parse the responses you’ve got here, and see if they natch up with what you think people are saying to you.
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I expect people to vote based on agreement or disagreement. And I’m not going coddle anybody, it IS fucking simplistic and it hurts the causes they supposedly dearly support.
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no it’s probably just because he’s young and posts good videos on social media right? /s
Welp time to see Trump flail his arms and cry like the man child he is
His diapers are gonna be ground zero all day today
Trump: Ha, that’s my secret Mr Stark… My diapers are always full!
Hoping to see.his meltdown on truth social screenshotted today
aaaand it started
Congratulations to Americans and new yorkers in particular! Hoping real change for quality of life succeeds
If they would let him get to work it would be great, unfortunately a lot of his energy in the first year will be fighting off Trump and other billionaires trying to remove him or throw roadblocks in his way.
At least he’s not alone. Seems newsom has been battening down the hatches quite fine already on how to fight back
