你这一年过得够疯狂了，但光想想纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）现在啥心情就知道了。
you had a wild year, just imagine how New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani must feel.
2025年10月，在他历史性当选前几周，《连线》（WIRED）在位于竞选办公室里采访了马姆达尼。我至今清晰记得他走进屋子时带来的那股气场。毕竟，这位仁兄刚完成一项惊人的政治壮举：在短短几个月内，从一个无名小卒跃升为市长竞选的领跑者。部分原因在于他的竞选信息精准聚焦于负担能力与工薪阶层。但马姆达尼竞选成功的很大一部分归功于信息传递的方式——他对社交媒体的驾驭堪称大师级，让美国其他政客看起来还在摸索怎么打开社交媒体账号似的。
In October 2025, weeks before his historic election win, WIRED sat down with Mamdani for an interview at his campaign office. I remember, vividly, the energy that he carried into the room. This was a man, after all, who’d just pulled off a stunning political feat, rising from being an unknown to becoming the mayoral front-runner in a matter of months. In part, that was because of his message, which focused squarely on affordability and the working class. But much of Mamdani’s campaign success can be attributed to how that message was delivered, namely through a mastery of social media that made every other politician in America look like they were still figuring out how to open Mamdani, then just about to turn 34, radiated in our first conversation with what I can best describe as a supernatural electricity.
当时年仅33岁、即将年满34岁的马姆达尼，在我们首次交谈中散发出一种只能用“超自然电流”来形容的能量。它点亮了整个房间，随后在繁忙的曼哈顿街头拍摄照片时，更像施了魔法般吸引路人驻足。纽约市民对着这位仿佛一夜之间让枯燥的地方政治焕发出文化革命气息的候选人欢呼雀跃。
It lit up the room, and in a subsequent photo shoot on a bustling Manhattan street, drew passersby as if by magic. New Yorkers hooted and hollered at the candidate who, seemingly overnight, had made the mundanity of local politics feel like a cultural revolution.
快进一年，马姆达尼身上的那股“电流”依然在——只是可能多了几分疲惫。毕竟，日复一日的治理琐事，激情程度远不如火箭般蹿升的竞选。更别提马姆达尼凭借巨大的网络影响力，现已成为两极化话题的避雷针——从以色列问题到美国民主社会主义者（Democratic Socialists of America），无不引发争论；同时，他也是全美乃至全球数百万人心中的政治希望灯塔。
Fast-forward one year, and the Mamdani electricity is still there—it just might be a little bit more tired. The daily grind of governing, after all, doesn’t offer quite the same excitement as a rocket-ship campaign. Not to mention that Mamdani, particularly given his massive reach online, has now become a lightning rod for polarizing conversations, from Israel to the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as a beacon of political hope for millions across the country and even around the world.
马姆达尼在“大苹果”选民中的支持率高达惊人的69%，已跻身美国左翼最具影响力的人物行列；但他最严厉的批评者却将他描述为危险的激进分子，其政治主张威胁着他当选领导的这座城市。压力不小啊。
Mamdani’s approval rating among Big Apple voters sits at a stunning 69 percent, and he’s become among the most influential figures on the American left; he’s also been described, by his harshest critics, as a dangerous radical whose politics threaten the very city he’s been elected to lead. No pressure.
在纽约市政厅的一次面对面采访中，这位市长与我谈论了他在任10个月来的心得、他如何将社交媒体作为治理工具，以及他在当今中期选举中美国人面临的最紧迫问题上的立场。马姆达尼或许很疲惫——他沙哑地透露这是“漫长的一天”——但这位“互联网市长”似乎也新获解脱，当然更有底气畅所欲言。毕竟，赢得权力与行使权力是两码事。而此刻，权力稳稳掌握在佐赫兰·马姆达尼手中。
During a sit-down interview at New York’s City Hall, the mayor and I spoke about what he’s learned during his 10 months on the job, how he uses social media as a tool for governance, and where he stands on some of the most pressing issues facing Americans in today’s midterm elections. Mamdani might be tired—he divulged, hoarsely, that it had been “a long day”—but the internet’s Mayor also seems newly liberated, and certainly empowered to speak his mind. Winning power and wielding it, after all, are two very different things. And right now, the power is squarely in Zohran Mamdani’s corner.