How progressives engineered voting rules to help Zohran Mamdani win

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Mamdani’s allies in the Democratic Socialists of America, Working Families Party and left-wing foundations worked for years to change city election laws that gave his candidacy a powerful boost.
47% : “Our horizons have opened exponentially,” says Daniel Goulden, a strategy co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists, who calls Mamdani’s victory a “100% replicable model.”Voters who want to prevent the rise of local Mamdanis in their cities or states would be advised to pay much more attention to the rules of the game and who writes them.John Fund is a National Review columnist and a senior fellow at Unleash Prosperity.

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