The blackest pill isn't that Mamdani is going to be mayor — the damage can be mitigated, the damage can be repaired — it's that he was elected. Millions of NYCers saw a man espousing a communist ideology, wanting to "globalize the intifada", looked into their conscience and still cast their ballot. How can you have a society like this? I lived over a decade of my life in NYC and still often think of it as home, this causes me intense grief.