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On Tuesday night, a world-weary Democrat—decidedly not a D.S.A. lefty or social justice warrior—shot me a text as the primary results in New York rolled in, signaling that Zohran Mamdani–backed leftists were on pace to rout their mainstream Democratic opponents in three deep blue congressional districts. “The nice thing about the Mamdanist purges is that they don’t believe in prison,” he said, joking.