It's Tuesday, January 6, 20206. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It's now his honor, Mayor Mom Dani. As of January the 1st, 2006, Zoramamam Dani is now the elected mayor of New York City.

He becomes the youngest mayor in about a century.

He becomes the first Muslim mayor.

He becomes the first Democratic socialist mayor of America's largest city.

All of this comes as a seismic political movement as reshaping.

You can't say at this point of the American

political landscape, it is certainly recasting the political left. It is reshaping that part of the

landscape, and eventually, of course, they hope to dominate in the larger political landscape as

well. Now, there's some really interesting things going on here. First of all, let's just remind

ourselves that Zora Mandani was born outside the United States. Let's also remember the fact that

his parents are pretty radical in terms of their own politics. His father is a professor,

an academic, very much in the mold of Edward Said, very much committed to critical theory

and to anti-colonialist

understandings, the ideologies of the insurgent left, much of the third world, the developing

world. And you also have the fact that his mother very much involved in the media and film

production. Zaram Mandani is a child of privilege, yet he ran as the champion of the underdog.

A fascinating figure, I think just if you look at Zeram Mandani, former member of the assembly,

and then he had the audacious idea to run for the office of mayor of New York City,

no one gave him much of a chance.

He wasn't even really on the

political landscape, although he had a pretty big social media impact. He decided to run for mayor,

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