Ask Thomas Dewey. Politics is unpredictable. The polls are often wrong, and even the smartest of the commentariat don’t always get it right. Nobody thought Tom Dewey would lose to Harry Truman in 1948; Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump in 2016; or Kamala Harris, to Trump in 2024.
And few commentators, including me, thought Zohran Mamdani would win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
So, at the risk of being proven wrong yet again, I want to boldly ...