Mamdani and Obama’s smashing victories? Not like Obama isn’t a war criminal, but he ran a campaign on change and progressivism (even if he didn’t enact said progressivism and in fact bombed children) and he smashed his two terms, and Mamdani literally defeated the Democrat party apparatus which attempted to sabotage him by throwing the Cuomo wrench in the elections.

Running a young “change” candidate on a (false but USA) premise of progressivism is incredibly popular.