More than two million New Yorkers turned out to cast their ballot Tuesday, shattering decades of mounting apathy to support Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim candidate who won more than 50 percent of the vote and became the city’s youngest mayor since 1892. Critics—from the right and within the Democratic establishment—spent months attacking Mamdani’s progressive platform and his ear-to-the-ground approach to city politics. Attack ads fixated on his religion, his ethnic identity, and his