Does it feel real yet? I was watching his victory speech way after the fact last night and feeling both the kind of horror you sometimes feel in nightmares when you know something dreamy and unusual and good is an illusion that’s going to be snatched away from you by a demon (granted I was pretty close to stage 1 sleep while I was listening), but I was also involuntarily beaming at everything he said. It got me to thinking. I think Zohran Mamdani’s victory could well be the very best thing that’s ever happened on the political stage in my lifetime. I shouldn’t hedge or hesitate at all. I can’t think of anything comparable. The only victory for any office in any election anywhere for which my gratitude is not qualified that I can think of in my lifetime (excluding some Bernie primaries). He’s incredibly talented, but he also had phenomenal help from his volunteers. Thank you for your service.
I am also
thinking that as personable and genuine and likeable as he is, he is something
very special. Not to idolize—it’s admiration that I feel for the
qualities that brought him to victory but also I feel like I am witnessing a
rare piece of seminal history in the making. This is what I wish history
was more like and what I hope for history for the future.
Judging from the clobbered over the head look that dem leadership and some of our most prominent dem leaning media personalities exhibited in the post mortem to the victory, it doesn't seem that everybody in our soulless clueless age is ready for it, but I hope the fascists are quaking. I hope their days are fading.
