I strongly feel that the outcome Mayoral election in NYC has a much larger importance to the Nation as a whole than just the civil administration of New York.
If elected, Mandani will have political legitimacy and influence beyond the North mEast. The same is true to a lessor extent for the mayoral election in Minneapolis, and for the same reasons.
What is at stake is not the trappings of socialism brought by FDE's New Deal I(social security} or bu LBJ's War on Poverty programs (Medicare, Medicaid etc). Both of them had a vision of a better America however much one might disagree with them.
I am convinced that these two local candidates have no such vision for a better America, but quite the opposite. It is my belief that each oil them want to destroy American society as we kn ow it today. What happens in Minneapolis and New York this year could diversely affect American Society for decades and beyond.
We should alll care who wins.