New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at his Election Night celebration, Brooklyn, New York (Angelina Katsanis/AFP/Getty)

Tuesday’s Elections: The Light Shines Again in the US

EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: A Positive Politics Beyond “Left” and “Right”

UPDATE 1018 GMT:

I joined a panel on Ireland’s Tonight Show to delve further into the possibility of Tuesday’s elections as a turning point towards a better America.

It wasn’t just Mamdani’s lines to whip up the crowd. It was the concrete policies to deal with everyday issues. You are going to hear “affordability” a lot.

And if you go to Virginia and New Jersey, you heard the message from Governor-elect Spanberger: “We are not looking for polarization. We are looking for pragmatism. We are not looking for chaos. We are looking for competence.”

Listen from 26:30:

Two extracts from the discussion:

UPDATE, NOV 6:

With the confirmation of Democratic victories from New York City to Virginia to New Jersey, I joined Al Arabiya English on Wednesday afternoon to analyze the significance.

Day-to-day pragmatic politics is different from the Trump politics of division with “us v. them” and “enemies within”.

The juxtaposition is between Zohran Mamdani’s New York as a point of light coming out of the darkness and Trump’s threats promising the politics of confrontation.

Watch from 2:49:

ORIGINAL ENTRY, NOV 5: I joined Germany’s DW News on Wednesday morning to analyze the triumph of Zohran Mamdani in the election for New York City Mayor.

I explain the significance of Mamdani’s victory, first and foremost, for those in New York. But I go farther to evaluate how his approach and his policies could be part of a broader resurgence of “positive politics” in the US.