NYC’s next mayor is an anti-Israel socialist radical. What next?
For Zohran Mamdani, the race may be over, but the real competition is just beginning.
The newly crowned mayor-elect will oversee a staff of 300,000 people, a school system with 1 million children, a budget of $120 billion, and a GDP of $1.3 trillion. He now has to figure out how to govern a city that can be a zoo of competing interests, demographics, and power brokers; in which friends and enemies flip fast and can be hard to tell apart. The long list of progressive promises that got him in office will now turn into his largest liability, and he’ll hear heckling or hollering from both sides. Supporters want to see action, and enemies have been digging in for months.
Oh, and New York City’s Jewish community finds itself in unknown territory, with an Israel-bashing mayor who wants to arrest Bibi Netanyahu at the helm of the place they call home. In this mess, what will the jockeying positions look like? What is at risk, what are the signs, and is there reason to hope?
As the mayor gets to work managing the city, askanim are getting to work managing a fraught new relationship with a very different kind of mayor.
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