This really is cultural torture. Imagine you were part of Mamdani’s win — knocked doors, phone banked, and even overcame a series of abductions and attacks from the state — and then on election night it’s reported you won in a landslide. Then the vote counting is stopped and in the sloppiest, most brazen way, it is simply declared the next day that actually Andrew Cuomo won.
That’s what happened last February in Pakistan, with the full support of the United States and the Biden administration.
Now their Cuomo is rewriting the Constitution to add a 27th Amendment effectively making him dictator for life. Trump called him “my favorite field marshal.”
I feel so sad for Pakistan, where dozens of Mamdanis faced death, kidnapping, threats against their families, yet they prevailed, went out and won their elections only for the military to flip the results overnight, for the courts to not give them justice.
So deeply unfair.