Now Adams could be replaced by radical socialist Zohran Mamdani, 33, the upstart Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, who is playing Bogie, to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Bacall. Like Bacall, who supplied mystery and magic to help make Bogart a movie star, AOC supplied the energy and magic to make Mamdani a political star.

Zohran Mamdani’s dramatic, strong showing in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, in which he forced a concession from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amounts to a massive shot in the arm for progressives and other Democrats who have been imploring their party’s elder statesmen to step aside for a new generation of leaders.