the parallels in Trump 2016 and Mamdani 2025 are striking obviously the levels/stakes are way different, but there it is nonetheless you can’t ignore it because if youth unemployment and un-affordability ticks up further due to automation and other factors, you will see more people nationwide align to such socialist-leaving ideologies Dem party periphery (AOC and Bernie) already aligning around him. Dem party core meanwhile becoming totally irrelevant and ceding influence quickly watch carefully what happens from here