Mamdani's victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "We need to look only to our past for proof of how socialism can shape our future," he said.
49% : Billionaires, perturbed by Mamdani's avowed socialist politics, his proposals for expanded social services like universal childcare, and his declarations that billionaires should not exist, had backed Cuomo with a fervor that at times bordered on mania.
47% : Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader whose Bed-Stuy district overwhelmingly went for Mamdani, did not endorse the young socialist after he won the Democratic primary, giving only tepid, reluctant support in the days immediately before the election.
41% : The makeup moguls of the Lauder family backed pro-Cuomo and anti-Mamdani organizations to the tune of $2.6m, while the Tisch family gave $1.2m to stop the young socialist.
29% : When Republicans and other Cuomo backers tried pushing a red-baiting line promoting fear of Mamdani's socialism, he evoked Vito Marcantonio, a socialist who represented Harlem in Congress for seven terms.
28% : Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government.

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