Wall Street Journal columnist Gerald Baker zeros in on one of the key factors behind the victory of socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary: the indoctrination of today’s youth in public and especially elite private schools – such as the ones Mamdani attended.

In the past we could rely on the relentless economic logic of capitalism to fix things. Especially for these overeducated naïfs, the pursuit of a job, a career and the steady accumulation of income, wealth and a stake in the country would dim the lure of socialism. How many kids who had Che Guevara T-shirts and busts of Karl Marx are now thriving in law and financial firms?

But what if that is no longer the future that awaits these capitalists in chrysalis? All that expensive education, and no prospects at the end of it!

Polling indicates a lot of these people are voting for Mamdani in November.

It seems likely to cement the great political inversion of the past 50 years—in which the educated elites have moved left and the people without a college degree have embraced the Republican Party.”