My hypothesis on this whole thing is that the post war political consensus that defined left and right and political success through ideology is coming to a clo

My hypothesis on this whole thing is that the post war political consensus that defined left and right and political success through ideology is coming to a close. It’s not dead yet, millions of boomers are still voting. But politics is about emotion, and the center left vs far left built around socialism as a boogeyman - that emotion was based specifically on a Cold War politics where communism is a specific external enemy. And socialism doesn’t have to become popular for the emotional salience of “communist” as an attack, that sunk many a candidate in the Reagan era to stop being impactful. And so I think one of the reasons that Mamdani’s approval is rising, is because competence, and outcomes will have greater salience than ideology. This, not David Frums centrism argument explains the move from sanders to trump and I think will continue to surprise old school political consultants.