Matthew Cooke on the Real “Mamdani Effect”

Filmmaker and social commentator Matthew Cooke’s recent video takes a look at the “real 'Mamdani Effect’.” It’s well worth checking out.





Related Off-site Links:
Survivors Guide to Earth – Matthew Cooke’s Official Website.
How Mamdani Won – Democracy Now! (November 14, 2025).
Mamdani’s Win Proves That Hope Is Power – Frances Moore Lappé and Corinna Rhum (Common Dreams, November 8, 2025.)
Mamdani’s Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money – Tim Hjersted (Common Dreams, November 6, 2025).
Bernie Sanders Says a Mamdani Win Can Transform American Politics – John Nichols (The Nation, November 4, 2025).
“New York City Is Not for Sale” – Zohran Mamdani (Jacobin, September 8, 2025).
From Mamdani to Prop 50, John Nichols on Election Day Races and the Future of Democratic Party – Democracy Now! (November 4, 2025).


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

ZOHRAN MAMDANI
• “The Answer, Actually, Is Hope”
• Progressive Perspectives on Zohran Mamdani’s Win in New York City
• Zohran Mamdani and the Future of the Democratic Party
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
• The Rational National’s Take on Zohran Mamdani
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Dorothy Lennon: Quote of the Day – June 26, 2025
• A Timely and Important Conversation


THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Kshama Sawant on the Democrats’ Shutdown Cave
• David Norton: “The Democratic Party Serves Capital, Not You”
• Robert Reich on the “Big Ugly Cave” by Senate Democrats
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy


DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism
• Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2019
• Heather Cox Richardson on the Origin of the American Obsession with “Socialism”
• The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”
• Something to Think About – December 14, 2011
• Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011
• A Socialist Perspective on the “Democratic Debacle” in Massachusetts
• Obama a Socialist? Hardly
• Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America”
• A Socialist Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis
• Capitalism on Trial
• No, Hitler and the Nazis Weren’t Socialists
• What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025
• Ted Rall: “Democrats Are Not the Left”