Why New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani cannot become the president of United States of America

In the wake of his landslide victory in New York’s mayoral race, liberals are once again indulging their favourite fantasy — the search for the next Barack Obama. But this time, it’s got a TikTok filter. The man at the centre of that delusion is Zohran Mamdani: socialist assemblyman, son of intellectual royalty, and the first Muslim mayor of New York City. To brunch-table liberals, he is the Barack Obama of the algorithm age. To constitutional lawyers, he’s an impossible case study.

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