| It’s 2026 and we have a democratic socialist mayor of New York City. A few minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day, Zohran Mamdani took his oath of office in a defunct subway station underneath City Hall, and the moment we’ve been waiting for finally arrived.
“Mamdani must do more than deliver good policies on behalf of the city’s most marginalized,” Daniel Wortel-London wrote earlier this week. “He must also build durable power among New York’s working class through his political organizations, coalitions, and approach toward the city’s political economy.”
We’re confident he will. It’s a new year; and we’re staying positive: The first year of Trump’s second term is over, and America is celebrating 250 years of democracy. Let’s start fresh.
-Alana Pockros
Associate Editor, The Nation |
