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@nybooks.com mayoral election writeup includes part of @thedigradio.bsky.social episode with the @socialists.nyc co-chairs assessing what the primary win meant
Driving over from MSNBC Land to Commie Corridor yesterday, through the crazy-straw tangle of on-ramps and off-ramps that lead across the East River and into Astoria, I tuned into Daniel Denvir’s podcast “The Dig” for an interview with two of the main Commies from the Corridor, the young cochairs of New York City’s chapter of the DSA, a group I had joined to get some skin in the game from my distant aerie in New England. Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo described the organization’s nimble, decentralized structure, its all-hands-on-deck ethic of empowering volunteers to rise through its ranks, and, notably, its claim upon the career of Zohran Mamdani. The DSA made Mamdani, who has now made the DSA. In the two dozen or so campaigns it has run since 2018, the DSA developed a “leadership layer…right out of the gate,” according to Mausser. Zohran’s first three hires were “cadre DSA members,” its core personnel, she explained. Everything flowed out of those hires: field coordination, volunteer coordination, strategic comms, coalition building, policy writing, endorsements, social media. “The structure was iterative as it grew, and it grew in ways that were beyond expectations”: door knockers became field leads became field coordinators, and on it went. The New York City DSA and the Zohran campaign “were two different entities, and remain so,” Gordillo clarified, but “our members were embedded in every aspect of the campaign.” Mausser neatly summed up the astonishing opportunities and risks of this moment: “You can’t disentangle Zohran from DSA. Even if he wanted to step away from us, which to be clear he does not, but even if he did I think it would be impossible at this point.” It wasn’t meant to be ominous; it was a simple statement of fact. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/06/have-you-met-z-zohran-mamdani/
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM