Forget other issues and challenges, Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City proves the supremacy of the “will” of voters. He was opposed by every organised power imaginable in New York. But he was supported by “people’s power,” which is the only power democracy is supposed to recognise. If the official election machinery is uninfluenced, then voters can defeat all other powers in a democracy. President Trump was publicly opposed to him, so were the Republican Party and even Democratic Party high-ups (Clinton supported Mamdani’s opponent), and the elite class in general, who poured in billions to oppose Mamdani, yet the voters won. Democracy prevailed. Most importantly, it broke the sense of powerlessness of the poor, the inferiority complex of the middle class, and the psychological barrier of the disempowered—that the elite can never be defeated. Nothing could have boosted the US’s image as a democracy more than this.