Jon Stewart (“The Daily Show) interviews Zohran Mamdani. His victory seems almost certain. The top capitalists are throwing millions at Cuomo in a desperate attempt to stop Mamdani, but at a certain point money has diminishing returns. The main reason: Mamdani claims 90,000 volunteers. That is the beginnings of a mass movement. What is most important is that it has the potential to transform the mood of the working class. Trump will throw everything he has at a Mayor Mamdani, meaning at the New York City working class. That will further enflame the mood. This, in turn, has the potential of shaking up the unions. There will also be a heightened struggle within the Democratic Party. The suggestions that the Mamdani Movement can “do to the Democrats what Trump and Maga have done to the Republicans” are false because at the end of the day Trump and company have been good for profits and have also weakened the working class, whereas the Mamdani movement will do the opposite. Top Democrats like New York governor Kathy Hochul and minority leader Hakeem Jeffries have finally endorsed Mamdani, in the hopes of being able to influence him. To whatever extent that they succeed (if they do at all), to that same extent they will provoke a reaction from the tens of thousands who compose the Mamdani Movement. The question is whether those tens of thousands will be organized. In other words, would this lead to the beginnings of a movement towards a working class party?
