Mamdani to move from campaign poetry to the prose of governing

As a former New Yorker, I found Zohran Mamdani’s great political upset on Tuesday remarkable. But the 34-year-old recent Muslim immigrant from Uganda with Indian roots did not do it the usual way. He did not just repeat the mainstream ideas of one of the two major parties, as candidates from marginalized communities usually do, nor did he hide or apologize for his religious or ethnic identity.

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