Zohran Mamdani will never be alone
New York’s mayor-elect will have to contend with the city’s billionaire class and a hostile president
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Ross Barkan is a writer from New York City and a columnist for the New Statesman. His book Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics and his novel Glass Century were both published this year.
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