Zohran Mamdani, Nicholas Fuentes, and others of their ilk feast on resentment.
That America’s political soil is fertile for this effort isn’t surprising — globalism and fiscal profligacy put the American Dream out of reach for millions, while the decline of faith turned the deadly sin of envy into a virtue.
Faith had largely immunized America to ruinous class envy, as had the abounding visible examples of those who worked hard and made a better mouse trap.
The aim of political systems, insofar as they contend with wealth creation and property, is to do one of three things: to foster a system where all can optimize their individual capacity for making money; to protect those with property from those who want it; or to forcibly redistribute property along politically advantageous lines. The latter two systems — notably feudalism and Marxism — are not concerned with wealth creation, so much as they are with the question of who owns what.