{"id":44929,"date":"2025-11-05T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44929"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:07:53","slug":"hope-is-alive-mamdani-victory-in-nyc-seen-as-historic-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/hope-is-alive-mamdani-victory-in-nyc-seen-as-historic-turning-point\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hope Is Alive!\u2019 Mamdani Victory in NYC Seen as Historic Turning Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor with over 50 percent of the vote in the three-way contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Angelina Katsanis \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jon Queally<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 05, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zohran Mamdani<\/a> was elected the next mayor of New York<\/a> City on Tuesday in a victory he and his supporters say reflects the hope of a city\u2014and a nation\u2014ready for a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Withstanding a barrage of negative ads and fearmongering by the city\u2019s elite, the democratic socialist candidate secured 50.4 percent of the vote in a three-way race that saw disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, who ran as an Independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mandani, nab 41.6 percent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa just over 7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHope is alive,\u201d declared Mamdani in his victory speech from the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn after most major networks called the victory his shortly after 9:30 pm local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,\u201d said Mamdani. \u201cHope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.\u201d \u2014Zohran Mamdani<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly who ran a campaign focused on making life more affordable for the workers<\/a> who make the nation\u2019s largest city run and thrive, said that while the campaign\u2019s unifying and inspiring spirit meant his supporters could express a collective sigh of relief after the election day win, the hard work will now be making that shared vision for the city become a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt,\u201d he said. \u201cCentral to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care across our city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYears from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come,\u201d he added. \u201cThis new age will be one of relentless improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As progressives<\/a> and Democrats nationwide took the victory in New York City<\/a> as a sign of what a populist campaign focused on the needs of working people can accomplish, Mamdani also spoke to the underlying theme of Tuesday\u2019s elections across the country, where Democrats claimed major wins in various competitive races and ballot initiatives\u2014outcomes seen as a resounding rebuke to President Donald Trump\u2019s scorched-earth second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we embrace this brave new course rather than fleeing from it,\u201d said Mamdani, \u201cWe can respond to\u00a0oligarchy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0authoritarianism<\/a>\u00a0with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him." pic.twitter.com\/mvGcsN01Xt<\/a><\/p>— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>