Mamdani is a pretty good example of the left doing things right

He ran at the right time, the stars aligned and gave him some truly wretched losers for opposition, and national media tripped over a dozen billionaire's dicks trying to insert itself into municipal politics.

But I don't think Mamdani would have been successful against a Guliani, a Bloomberg, or a DeBlasio. And if a Republican had won over a fractured Liberal/Left field, I suspect we'd be getting an earful about how Radical Islamists cost the Democratic Party the election.

There's thousands of Mamdani's in modern American politics. You can find them in every DSA chapter in America. He's not simply the product of The Left Doing Things Right. He's a product of the liberals and conservatives finally running out of gas, then tangling themselves in a knot trying to block an alternative.