The country is pretty polarized now, and amusingly everyone seems to think that the polarization is one sided. Definitely not the side they support.

All this media attention comes off as astroturfing and manufacturing a reality.

I'm pleased to see the Atlantic recognize that Mamdani's politics are, in fact, pretty centrist. A social democrat in practice (though he ran as a democratic socialist, which is different).

He's left of modern American Democrats (who as a party are center right typically).

People who have only experienced politics as the American team sport with Republicans on the right and Democrats on the left really don't have much understanding of what left, center, and right are. I'm frankly glad to see more candidates entering the field to broaden perspectives and challenge the notion of "what could win".

Frankly, Democrats could learn a lot from him. And Republicans probably could too, to be honest.