When Gen Z turned politics into the feed – The Mail & Guardian

When Gen Z turned politics into the feed – The Mail & Guardian

“And so it begins.” Those four words — President Trump’s terse reaction — have become the viral caption for a moment that feels larger than one city’s vote count.  New York has elected a 34-year-old democratic socialist, Zoran Mamdani, on a platform packaged for the age of the infinite scroll.  The world’s first generation of internet natives — Gen Z — just demonstrated that the political feed is no longer a sideshow; it is the show. Seen in iso…