>>211990905 (OP)This should have been the hole in one moment for mamdani but our country is literally obsessed with kowtowing to Israel, and NYC especially has a hugely important bloc of local Jews who literally don't care if everywhere outside their creepy Brooklyn enclave burned to the ground as long as they continue getting special privileges and Israel is protected - NYC politicians have to really pander hard for those Jewish Brooklynites in a way that Mamdani never had to in Queens among Indian, Chinese, black,and Hispanics people (all of whom distrust Israel for its oppression of nonwhites)