The Other Side of Midnight with Lionel offers an entertaining and informative post-mortem on the shocking New York City mayoral election, dissecting Zohran Mamdani’s narrow 50.3% victory. Lionel demands an adult discussion, cutting past the histrionics and caterwauling to expose the real story: the collapse of the old Democratic order. We analyze how national progressive networks ‘engineered’ this win and why competence (Cuomo's 41.6%) "landed flat" against ideology and promises of "economic justice". The crucial debate rages: did the 8% candidate Curtis truly affect the result? Finally, Lionel predicts that Mamdani’s universal rent control and free bus promises are headed for a "head-on collision with fiscal gravity", providing the opposition with an urgent strategy to frame the ensuing chaos as a necessary "return to order". Find out "what do we do next?"

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