First, I want to remind everyone that this is an electoral off year: typically a boring, restorative period for political junkies as everyone politely ignores the odd gubernatorial race in New Jersey. Alas, this year’s race for mayor of New York City has rather spectacularly devolved into a brawl over several contentious issues: Gaza, socialism, and the superior strategy to countering Trumpism. Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, is the seemingly invincible front-runner in a race that has inflamed tensions within the Democratic Party—liberals vs. leftists, social justice vs. economic populism, Zionists vs. anti-Zionists, woke vs. anti-woke....