Perhaps my final Mamdani post?

Teen Vogue does a great job looking at his campaign in the final days before today’s election (a shame Vogue has killed Teen Vogue‘s political reporting — despite quality work and a lot of clicks, Vogue has decided the magazine will focus on “career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people”).

“He won the primary, I support him” is all any Democrat needs to say at this point. It’s appalling that lots of them are saying more, even Dems from Virginia. This is not the hour for infighting, it’s time for a united front. Unfortunately lots of Dems would sooner back Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace over his (alleged?) sexual harassments. After all, groping women doesn’t challenge the status quo even slightly. That is not an excuse for them. There’s even less excuse when Cuomo has endorsements from the Felon, Musk and Stephen Miller.

The Dems in NYC voted for Mamdani. That and “Republicans threatening shit like this is unacceptable” — i.e., withholding federal funds from New York, deporting Mamdani — should be all that needs saying. Even a Dem criticizing Mamdani should be able to say that second one.

But centrists got to centrist. As Paul Krugman says, the Necrotic Toddler’s recent Great Gatsby party “took place at a time when a number of centrist pundits were engaging in their favorite sport, berating Democrats for being out of touch with ordinary Americans. As usual, their critique seems to be aimed at a right-wing caricature of the party rather than actually existing Democrats. But in any case, has any important Democrat ever done anything as remotely out of touch as Trump’s Halloween bash?”

As I’ve said before, I’ve no idea how well Mamdani will do if he wins. NYC is notoriously a tough city to govern. It may exceed his skills. The party infrastructure may cut him off at the knees. But every Democrat should be wishing him well, even if it’s just lip service.