It's Thursday, November 6, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. And so it begins. Those were the words offered by President Donald J. Trump in response to the election of Zoran Mamdani as the new mayor of New York

City. It will now be just a matter of weeks before Mom Doni, an openly identified Democratic

Socialist who won the Democratic nomination and is an immigrant Muslim. You add all that together,

and a lot of history has been made, and you can count on this.

A lot of history is going to be made. But taking stock of the election of Zulran Mammdani as mayor,

let's just consider the fact that New York City is the nation's largest city. Its economy is actually

greater than that of many nations. Zoran Mamm Dane has never run any any major organization even for a day, even for a minute.

He's had only a handful of employees, and now he's going to be handed one of the biggest

municipal employment bases in all of world history. Furthermore, he's going to be handed a set of

challenges that will be vexing even for the most experienced politician, and he's one of the

least experienced politicians. A 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Muslim has just been elected

the mayor of the nation's largest city, one of the world's largest city economies, and,

of course, one of the most influential cities in the world, certainly starting with

the influence of New York on the United States of America.

It is ground zero for so many of the cultural elites, for so many of the academics, those

who are the producers of culture, those who are the major engines of ideology in the United

States.

New York City is a magneto of sorts for this

kind of cultural energy, and it is the central address for the cultural elite in the United States.

It has some academic addresses. It has some West Coast addresses. You could throw in cities like

Chicago, but there's only one New York City, one and only one.

And now it has elected a 34-year-old who is in multiple ways, unlike any mayor who's ever served in that city or, frankly, almost any American city before.

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