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But lo! The people, ignorant though they are, but still weary of the sterile repetition of political theatre, have turned their gaze elsewhere.
No, New York has not turned socialist. It has turned weary. The toilers and the tired professionals, the men who wake at dawn to find their rent multiplied while their wages stand still, the women who labor with grace only to be taxed for their virtue if they have any left, all these have looked upon the city’s grandees and found them hollow. I don't blame them. America is a dying empire and rotting from within.
Cuomo, prince of the managerial caste, spent his years embalming a corpse and calling it “the system.” Sliwa, a vaudevillian knight errant in a red beret, mistook nostalgia for principle and confusion for courage. Between them, one perceived the boredom of privilege and the other, the comedy of ambition without substance. Both reigned over an empire of mirrors, each image reflecting comfort, but none truth.
And then appeared this Muslim Mamdani. One does not need to share his doctrine to recognize his moment. His victory is not the triumph of theory but of fatigue. The city, exhausted by its gilded absurdities, has lifted its eyes toward anyone who seems to feel. In an age when the powerful have perfected the art of empty slogans fit for social media without listening, the people have rewarded a man who, at least, pretends to hear them, much like Trump.