How Zohran Humiliated the Democrats with David Roth

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Zohran Mamdani shattered the notion that a New York City mayor has to be some craggy-faced, man-shaped stack of disappointments who’d sooner die than be seen on the subway. The young, energetic Democratic Socialist ran on a platform of making New York City a more livable place for average residents, which—surprise!—went over well with average residents. Listening to constituents and trying to improve their lives doesn’t seem like a controversial stance, so why is it that the Democratic establishment seems almost as afraid of Mamdani as the Republicans? This week, Adam sits with Defector journalist and longtime NYC resident David Roth to talk about what it might mean for NYC to have a mayor who actually understands what NYC is, and what that might mean for the future of the left.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:27.6	Hey there, welcome to factually.
0:29.2	I'm Adam Conover.
0:30.1	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:32.1	You know, American politics and media have been especially fucked up over the last couple weeks.
0:38.0	I feel like I start a lot of shows by saying that, but let's just do a quick list to break down exactly how bad things have been.
0:45.5	The Democratic establishment in New York City chose a sex-abusing corrupt former governor named Andrew Cuomo to be their choice to run as mayor of New York City.
0:54.8	Trump recently bombed Iran, barely setting back their nuclear program while risking a catastrophic
1:00.7	wider war, all while his administration continues to illegally kidnap immigrants and demolish
1:06.2	the federal government.
1:07.6	And of course, Democrats aren't doing shit to stop him.
1:10.1	In fact, they can't even
1:11.3	decide if they should one day say that they are interested in stopping him. And of course,
1:16.3	the media that used to report on all the bad shit happening around the world in towns and
1:20.9	cities across America has been obliterated. Instead, we now get our information about these
	...

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