"It also highlighted the HUGE campaign against him"
right but i want to make sure you fully get the point
people didn't sit home and not vote because the establishment opposed mamdani
they didn't whine that centrist assholes didn't support mamdani, therefore they couldn't vote, because they had to teach dem hq a "lesson" about listening to the left
they just ignored them
they just fucking voted
and the left won
*the whole fucking point*