It’s pretty remarkable that someone with this absurd level of political talent could have just continued to indefinitely waste away as a backbencher in the New York Assembly if he hadn’t decided to launch what was then a long shot bid for mayor under a near-perfect set of macro circumstances.
Makes me optimistic about how many other sources of untapped talent there are out there in local and state governments around the country that just lack the opportunity (or currently, the willpower) to attempt to make a similar leap.
Mamdani is a generational talent, but the bench is almost certainly deeper than we think it is.