Is Mamdani's idealism already fading?

Is Mamdani's idealism already fading?

No one who has noticed the obsequiousness crouching behind Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s ideological fixity should have been surprised by the way he was played by Donald Trump when they met recently in the Oval Office. Mamdani, who seems to have sprung straight from his academic father’s post-colonialist writings, bows to any powerful paternal figure — especially when that figure knows how to ring Mamdani’s Pavlovian bells. “I think you feel very…