Zohran Mamdani was the right amount of online
Yesterday's off-year election dominated certain parts of the news cycle, no more so than Zohran Mamdani's decisive win in the New York mayor's race. The Mamdani campaign has been the rare ray of light in a year that's been dominated by a much broader continued slide into authoritarianism in the U.S. and Mamdani, at 34 years old, has shown what a truly online campaign that doesn't descend into the cynicism preferred by algorithmic mediated platforms.