News Summary

• New York state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s victory Tuesday over former Gov.
• Andrew Cuomo capped an astonishing anti-establishment campaign by a 34-year-old who was polling at 1% in January.
• Julian Zelizer: M amdani”s win constitutes the 21st century high-water mark for democratic socialists.
• He says the Democratic Party voters are rightly disenchanted with their own party and millions of them have left the party in recent years.
• Zelizer says democratic socialism offers a compelling path forward.