Breakthrough?

New York state assemblyman and DSA member Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for NYC mayor, defeating Andrew Cuomo. The disgraced former governor was supported by Wall Street and assholes like Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Disgraced current mayor Eric Adams is running for re-election as an independent. 

Robert Reich:

You have the Democratic establishment really making a kind of last ditch effort to do everything they possibly could for [Cuomo] and they failed miserably. If there's not a lesson here about people rising up, demanding what they want and what they need, and a new generation of Democrats ... talking to people authentically about what they need, I don't know what the lesson is.

Update (June 30):  From a YouTube comment:

Policy WAS a big part of [Mamdani's] appeal. More and more people are waking up to the ugly oligarchic nature of US politics, as well as the nefarious role ... lobbying groups like AIPAC hold on so many politicians -- both [Republicans and Democrats]. When politicians come along like him and reject corporate money, call out corporate influence on politicians, don't take lobbying money and offer genuinely new ideas ... people listen.