I’m not from the states, and never understand how mamdani is special. This is probably just another America exceptionalism. American is generally a collection of suburbs. Most of world are more modernized/urbanized, and politicians like mamdani is much more common there.
Report is tend to based on verifiable facts, returned victims are inconvenient to verify.
Americans are simply new to this phenomenon and don’t know how to interpret/imagine. In a few generations, when trump dynasty is over, we will see documentaries about how this works systematically and what news have reported are just tip of the iceberg.
China has been providing false numbers, so here is a move to leveling the playing field by making USA numbers untrustworthy as well. One step closer to beat China.
She’s nothing without trump.