The Bull and Bear Cases on Zohran Mamdani

The Bull and Bear Cases on Zohran Mamdani

Dear readers,I haven’t known exactly what to say about Zohran Mamdani’s thumping win in New York’s mayoral primary because I haven’t known exactly what to think about it. At a visceral level, I’ve been less bothered by it than I expected to be. Partly that’s because — like a lot of people who voted1 for Andrew Cuomo — I didn’t like Andrew Cuomo or think he would be a particularly good mayor. He represented stasis and sclerosis, was worse on poli…