September 3, 2025
9/11 to Mamdani: The Pipeline From Campus to City Hall
By Kim Ezra Shienbaum
America has entered the era of the post-millennial voter—a generation born after 9/11, now approaching one-quarter of the electorate. For many, that day isn’t a defining national memory but a vague historical footnote. As Rep. Ilhan Omar once controversially described it, it was simply the day “when some people did something.”
This is a generation raised in a dramatically different cultural and educational environment—one shaped more by ideology than history. From grade school to university, progressive activism isn’t just accepted, it’s institutionalized. Students have been taught to protest before they are taught to understand what they’re protesting.
So when Zohran Mamdani, a self-described anti-capitalist and vocal supporter of the “Globalize the Intifada” movement, won the Democrat primary for mayor of New York City, young voters were unfazed. With 63 percent of his supporters holding college degrees, it wasn’t a fringe message—it was the appeal.
What we’re witnessing is the political coming-of-age of a generation untethered from the national narratives that once shaped American identity. Two quiet revolutions—one demographic, the other intellectual—have transformed the university and, in turn, the electorate.
And their impact is only just beginning.
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