Gordon Campbell: On Mamdani, And How The Luxon Government Is Expanding The Powers Of The State

First, some good news. Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoral race in New York and as the prophet Leonard Cohen once said, taking Manhattan is just the start. More than anything, Mamdani is providing leadership to New Yorkers, and especially to his generation. To people who are racially, socially and religiously diverse, Mamdani is also a shining light at a time when ICE and the National Guard are running amok across the nation. (Yet even on the eve of Mamdani’s victory, Democratic Party boss Chuck Schumer was still declining to endorse him!)