The Age of Mamdani: He’s young, charismatic, Muslim, a Democratic Socialist—and the future of the Democratic Party

The ever-beaming Zohran Mamdani, now His Honor and Mayor of New York City, now takes his place as the newest anointed rescuer of the Democratic Party and America’s political left. The nation’s political parties often define themselves by generational transformations, and each comes with the name. For the Democratic Party, the defining ages of the modern era have been named for Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. On the Republican side, the most transformative fig