Ken Fisher is quoted in The Wall Street Journal’s article discussing Brooklyn’s significance in the New York City mayoral race. Brooklyn’s rapidly evolving political landscape has led borough natives, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, to struggle with the rise of Democratic Socialist and mayoral frontrunner, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. “I don’t envy them the task,” said Ken of Schumer and Jefferies’ strains between their party and their neighborhood. “Now I know how my parents felt when they woke up and George McGovern was the Democratic candidate for president and not Hubert Humphrey.”

Ken argued that if Mamdani was a new face, his success reflected a long-established New York dynamic that repeatedly remakes the city. Brooklyn has vastly changed over the years, between the effects of 9/11, the murder rate, and the shifts in immigration and diversity. “What that does is it creates openings for the exercise of political power,” he continued, “which has been the pattern in New York since the British kicked the Dutch out.”

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