“I understand that by posting all this on her TikTok that she has upped her ratings and gained followers,” Kathy McDonald-Choate, a congregant at East Somerset Baptist in Kentucky, told The Washington Post. “I would not want to be her on Judgment Day.”

"It's a log in MAGA's fire," political scientist Richard Flanagan told me. For Mamdani's opponents, his continued success is grist for the content mill.

In the hours following Mamdani's victory, major conservative figures and elected officials fired off pithy posts about the downfall of America. Many referenced mandatory hijabs or terrorism. The NRSC sent a flurry of tweets and emails accusing candidates across the country of being "mini-Mamdanis."

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