Zoran Mamdani won over New York. And let's see what happens now. Now the real test begins,

because New York woke up different this morning,

the morning after the election, not just because the city has a new mayor, but because for one

brief moment, it believed again. Zoran Kwame Mahmadani stood on that stage last night, the son of Uganda and India, a 34-year-old

Democratic socialist who now holds the keys to America's largest city, a city that has broken

men twice his age and richer than him by miles, a city that rarely forgives idealists.

But sometimes, just sometimes, it lets them win.

And I, for one, think that that is a good thing.

We believe in standing up for those we love.

Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community,

one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job.

A single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down.

Or anyone else with their back against the wall.

Your struggle is ours too.

And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not

waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.

Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.

New York City breathe this moment in.

That's what Zoran Mamdani told the crowd at his victory speech. We are breathing in the air of a city that has been

reborn. Now, it was a beautiful line. It was almost biblical. And for a second, you could feel

something shift. But history reminds us, and James Baldwin would have said it plain, that

moments like this are dangerous if we mistake symbolism for salvation, because New York has a long memory.

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