particular city or state.

Always.

Would have won here. Mondami is talented and organized well.

Exactly.

cheaper groceries, I expect to see candidates all over the country following Mamdani's lead.

There will be people who think that all that Mamdani clones around the country have to do is snap their fingers and it will be so. The “everything-is-free-in Europe” crowd does not take contradiction lightly.

New Mexico also has free childcare & free college. Thanks to our great Gov. If SNAP didn’t go through, she was going to pick up the tab.

NM has more money now because of the Permian Basin.

People would LIKE those things. America will conspire to prevent NYC voters from realizing any of them.

I agree that is was not a "progressive landslide". I think had Mamdani performed better, and had Sliwa pulled more from Cuomo rather than bleeding support to him, it would've been a landslide election that would translate to what you mean by a more generalized progressive landslide.

Where I disagree, and I'm even sure if we do disagree, is that Mamdani's victory elucidated a manner of campaigning that is fresh and might be conducive to winning elsewhere. He showed that social justice populism is a strong foundation.

Additionally - and I think this is a point that hasn't really been discussed, Mamdani ran very much a New York City focused campaign. Significantly more than any mayor in my lifetime except Giuliani (from a darker perspective, i.e. New York is full of these bad things and I'm going to fix them!). In effect, he ran a "NYC First" campaign, and you are right that politics is local. In this sort of NY-pride sort of way, I think Mamdani shared some tactics with Trump's MAGA.

Mamdani won an election that he, conceivably, could have lost. His win is data we should analyze and use moving forward.

Also, he has forced Gov. Hochul to rethink her frustrating centrism, which will probably bode well for her as well.

Then I realized I was really laughing at NY city politics in general. Even though I don’t know much about it.

Tough choice, I know

Katie Wilson in Seattle is also evidence. I say this as someone who has been critical of the modern progressive moment. Trump's policies are so egregious (and the early Democratic response so underwhelming) that progressive have a real opportunity to gain some traction and they seem to be seizing it.

We need highly disciplined candidates who keep a laser focus on economic and practical improvements. Happy warriors who offer concrete action-oriented plans to help everyday people. A good issue to focus on almost everywhere is housing. Mamdani's idea on public grocery stores could sell in many cities and suburbs, but the main thing is to offer ideas that solve real problems in peoples lives.

Mamdani, Sherrill and Spanberger all interacted with voters and addressed their concerns. It's not good enough just to run against Trump. That is only so effective.

In the case of Mamdani, there is a lesson for the extreme left who either stayed home last year or voted third party. He never ran against the Democratic Party. He never made a purity test over endorsements. Too many of them pushed that kind of crap. Some even went so far as to make the BS claim that "establishment Dems" had endorsed Cuomo. Or attacking people who don't live in NYC and had never endorsed a candidate for Mayor before, like Pete Buttigieg and others, for not endorsing Mamdani. Mamdani himself never did this stuff but many of his supporters did and are still doing so.

Mamdani showed that real progressives can succeed in the Democratic Party by working within it, not by trying to tear it down.

Adams was a Democrat in name, but generally forwarded a cop-talk right wing program. He had a few progressive policies, I suppose, but was generally a corrupt flack for the business class. Bloomberg would have probably been a centrist Dem anywhere else, but he was ultimately a GOPer; his policies favored the rich and played a large part in transforming NYC into an unaffordable playground for the wealthy and tourists. He has largely been let off the hook for this, but the "Rent is too Damn High" guy actually did have Bloomberg's number and was speaking truth, even though he was roundly mocked by both the media and (unfortunately) conventional centrist Democrats.

I understand what you're saying, and I mostly agree, but the idea that NYC is some obvious place for a guy like Mamdani to be elected mayor is really to demonstrate a bit of ignorance of New York politics. This is a big deal. Maybe not nationally - who knows. But maybe it is an indicator nationally as well.

Within a few months of becoming Mayor, every problem that Koch had ignored for over a decade, suddenly became all Dinkins fault.

Yes, there are can be trends that may apply beyond that city, but the coverage really pissed me off as it's just not applicable mostly.

Cuomo despite his issues came from a political dynasty. So, yeah I consider it a landslide of sorts. It was an amazing victory...call it what you will. MM, we had our go and some was good and some bad. Clearly, it is bad now and we need to try something different. Time for next generation to fix' things. The times they are a changing.

Other than the ruling class hating it and pushing the “it can never work” propaganda.

People are sick of the same old, same old “moderate” bullshit. People want real change, they want healthcare, they want education, they want food security and living wages. People are sick of the capitalists taking more and more and leaving them with nothing. No services, the inability to afford anything, working their asses off and still falling behind.

We need people like Memdani. We need even more than that. We have to break the status quo. We have to end this bullshit system that rewards greed and selfishness above community and the common good.

We have to try, otherwise it’ll never get better.

This movement will ripple. I think city and town voters across the nation have little local interest in higher taxes, rising inflation, police thuggery, and a national security state that oppresses them. So these elections could ripple, but at the national level progressivism at least in 1900-1920, was a bit weak.