What do you do if something doesn’t work?
Why, surely you should double down even harder on the things that make it not work.
Right?
That seems to be the attitude of voters who decided that Zohran Mamdani was the candidate for them in the New York City mayoral race.
There are plenty of excuses that can be made for how New York ever had this woeful candidate put before us.
A self-professed “democratic socialist.”
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You could point to the failure of the Democratic Party to put up viable and talented candidates.
You might wonder at how Andrew Cuomo honestly thought that there was a way back for him in city politics.
And you might blame the vanity of a man who even now seems unwilling to drop out of the race.
Or