Zohran Mamdani

 In Tuesday’s off-year election cycle, Spanberger, a Democrat so moderate that she is a former CIA operative and was a leading member of the House of Representative’s bipartisan “Problem Solvers Caucus”, took her own advice and handily defeated Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s incumbent Republican lieutenant governor, to win the race for the governor’s mansion.

In New York, however, Zohran Mamdani doubled down against her anti-socialist admonition and loudly announced himself as a socialist. He has declared that capitalism is “theft”, that billionaires should not exist, that “whiter” neighbourhoods in New York should be taxed more, that a range of public services should be “free”, and that government-mandated price controls should govern food and housing. He took more than half of New York City’s mayoral vote and utterly humiliated his disgraced chief rival, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York.