Zohran Mamdani 2025: Reviving Nehru’s Democratic Socialism

Why so many New Yorkers were swayed by the lies of socialism and Zohran Mamdani

On Tuesday, New Yorkers — by a slight majority, but a majority nonetheless — endorsed Zohran Mamdani and the proud, unrepentant form of socialism he champions as the answer to, as least as he presents it, all of their woes.

Zohran Mamdani Is Bringing Bernie’s “Nevada Moment” Home

In 2020, Bernie Sanders decisively won the Nevada primary, in part because many younger immigrant voters persuaded parents and grandparents to vote for him. Zohran Mamdani’s victory, powered by similar dynamics, marks the second phase of this moment.

Zohran Mamdani 2025: Reviving Nehru’s Democratic Socialism

Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral win channels Nehru’s democratic socialism—linking immigrant struggles, equality, and the fight against far-right politics.

Mayor-Elect Mamdani Listens to the Poetry of Nehru and Ignores the Prose of Stagnation That Followed

Zohran Mamdani stood on the victory stage in Brooklyn Tuesday night and reached back to 1947. He quoted Jawaharlal Nehru’s midnight speech about a nation stepping “from the old to the new.” The crowd loved it. The line still sounds grand. Yet anyone who knows what happened to India after Nehru took the reins should feel a chill. That “new” India became a place of empty factories, endless queues for bread, and bribes at every counter. If Mamdani …

Zohran Mamdani: Reaching beyond identity politics

Reading Time: 3 minutes  It’s no surprise that Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old winner of the NYC mayoral election, quoted India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his victory speech:  “A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance,” he recited.   The first Indian and Muslim to win the post has made no secret of his identity, p…