So, I just watched Zohran Mamdani's victory speech as well as read the transcript. As is said about Trump, Mamdani means exactly what he says and says exactly what he means. First sentence:

The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

I believe it will be for "Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties;" for "every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point"; for "Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst hospital on Thursday night"; for "the woman I met on the Bx33 years ago who said to me: “I used to love New York, but now it’s just where I live”; for "Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall, who still has to drive his cab seven days a week". Because, "My brother, we are in City Hall now." "We will fight for you, because we are you." "...We will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than 1 million Muslims know that they belong"; for "immigrant[s]...member[s] of the trans community,...Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job,...single mom[s] still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall." "This victory is for all of them." (emphasis added)

As I watched and read I had the same feeling I had watching Kamala Harris' Democratic National Convention: What about us? What about white people, white men particularly? Did you meet any white people Zohran? White people are still the largest demographic segment in  New York City, 37.5%. Any good white people, maybe I should say? The only unmistakable references to pale faces were Andrew Cuomo and Trump, about the former Mamdani only said, "let tonight be the final time I utter his name". Trump got several mentions, the most memorable being, "So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

What he will do:

"So let us speak now, with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood, about what this new age will deliver, and for whom."

(and for whom)

"Our greatness will be anything but abstract. 

"Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal childcare across our city.

"...This new age will be one of relentless improvement. We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered.

"Together, New York, we’re going to freeze the rent together, New York, we’re going to make buses fast and free together, New York, we’re going to deliver universal childcare."

He does not mention city owned and operated grocery stores, one of his campaign planks that I thought (experts vehemently disagreed) would work well.

"We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks."

The only mention he makes of how he will pay for his agenda. He doesn't say that he will raise taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.

"Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on. Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception."

I bold that last because it is central to every electoral venture that Democratic Socialists of America make. Mamdani convinced me that he and his team will have the nous to do exactly what he says they will do:

"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about."

"We will leave mediocrity in our past. ...

He concludes:

"Let the words we’ve spoken together, the dreams we’ve dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together. New York, this power, it’s yours. This city belongs to you.

I think he will succeed; I hope he does. 62.5% of New Yorkers will be better off if he does.