Zohran Mamdani offers Democrats a path out of the wilderness, but some are not happy

The party was on its knees. It had failed to beat Donald Trump, a twice-impeached convicted felon, and lost both chambers of Congress.

- David Smith

Since November, Democrats have been searching for a path out of the wilderness. On Tuesday, they found one.

But instead of celebrating Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York mayoral primary election, many in the party establishment went into panic mode.

Mamdani, 33, a self-described democratic socialist who would be the first Muslim mayor of America's biggest city, represents a unique threat to the entitled elites who have helped take Democrats' approval rating to a record low of 29%. His defeat of Andrew Cuomo, a 67-year-old from a political dynasty vying to come back from a sexual harassment scandal, could hardly have been better scripted as a pivot point for Democrats who ruined their brand by closing ranks to cover up concerns over Joe Biden's decline.