By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Zoran Mamdani built his dream on radical chic—but now that he's winning, he's scrambling to bury the blueprint... After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool... So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”... I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.