Is Zohran Mamdani the future of the Democratic Party? Political scientists say the real question is bigger than one man. DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries across New York. Establishment Democrats are losing seats they have held for decades. And the party is splitting wide open over what that actually means. "You can disagree with the policies all day long if you want to," said Chryl Laird of the University of Maryland. "But I know exactly what they stand for." She says Democrats should be studying Mamdani's success, not resisting it. But Emory University's Andra Gillespie offers a check on the narrative. New York is not the whole country. Colorado voters unseated a progressive House Democrat the same week they rejected a progressive Senate candidate. The results suggest voters may be responding to conviction and clarity, not a specific ideology. "I think there is a hunger for change," Gillespie said, "but the answer may determine not only how Democrats respond to Mamdani'...