"My Advice to Parents Is Learn from Your Kids": Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC's Next Mayor

The acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani speaks with Democracy Now! about the rise of his son, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The professor cites Zohran's refusal to budge, to soften his critique of the state of Israel" as a critical aspect of his rise to power. His refusal to change his stance told the electorate that this was a man of principle, that affordability was not just merely rhetoric, that he could be taken seriously at his word," Mahmood says.