What made a Mamdani win possible? Demography and normalizing antisemitismMamdani wins NYC mayoral race, as Jewish leaders say historic civic engagement; Election night a ‘massive landslide’ for Dems, GOP ‘bloodbath’
The media and a Democratic Party that moved the Overton Window to treat the call for Jewish genocide as an idea worthy of debate helped elect a Marxist mayor of New York.
The political consultant Jared Sclar told JNS that the campaign in favor of the measure capitalized on U.S. President Donald Trump’s “deep unpopularity.”