Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayor's race a year ago. Now three candidates he backed just won their House primaries. Two of them knocked out sitting incumbents. The Democratic Socialists of America are having the kind of streak retail traders dream about before their portfolio hits zero.
The DSA apparently figured out that backing candidates in primaries works better than screaming into the void on Twitter. Revolutionary stuff. Next they'll discover that showing up to vote matters more than posting infographics about billionaires.
Two incumbents lost their seats. They woke up Tuesday morning as members of Congress and went to bed as guys who need to update their LinkedIn profiles. The political equivalent of getting margin called except nobody feels bad for them because they had health insurance.
Mamdani's endorsement now carries actual weight in New York primaries. He went from state assembly member to mayor to kingmaker in the span of a year. Meanwhile your average day trader goes from confident to broke to blaming Jerome Powell in about the same timeframe.
The three winners will coast to victory in November because these are New York districts where the Democratic primary is the actual election. The general is just a formality, like reading the terms and conditions before clicking accept on your brokerage account. You're going through the motions but the outcome was decided before you started.
Five candidates total were in this primary slate. Three won. That's a sixty percent success rate, which would make Mamdani the greatest political strategist alive if political endorsements meant anything beyond confirming what was already going to happen. But they don't, so he's just a guy who picked winners in races where being a Democrat with a pulse was sufficient.
The DSA is one step closer to achieving their goal of making New York even more ungovernable than it already is.
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