The Future Is Here As Mamdani Crushes Trump In Popularity
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is proving not to be a fluke, but his popularity represents the direction that the country is moving in just as Trump's unpopularity shows Republicans being left behind.
Mamdani and Trump are more than a contrast between left and right or between young and old. The two men are also representing the past versus the future.
This is a story about more than the poll numbers of the popularity and unpopularity of politicians. Political figures also often serve as barometers of a nation's political climate.
America tends to be a centerist country. The nation has always had a sort of inherent political equilibrium.
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When the country moves too far to the right, it corrects course by moving more to the left, settling somewhere in the middle.
Historically speaking, the United States has had periods of extreme conservatism, like the decades of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The course correction in response to the Great Depression was the election of FDR, who wasn’t a progressive, but a pragmatic, do whatever it takes problem solver.
The New Deal politics influenced the country for decades, until the Reagan conservatism of the 1980s, which has been taken to its extreme rightward endpoint by Trump.
Often in American politics, there are smoke signals indicating that a shift in direction is coming.
The election of a leftward mayor in one of the nation’s most liberal cities itself doesn’t indicate a broad national shift, but the contrast between the upswing of Mamdani and the downward slide of Trump tells a story and drops a big hint about the future.
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