This is where I will be baptized into the “Zohran for New York City” campaign, participating in my first “Canvas for Zohran,” the term used here to refer to door-to-door canvassing during election campaigns. It’s not yet noon, but there are already many of us, and from every corner I see young people joining us. With a quick glance, I try to count how many of us there are; I’d say at least a hundred. Zohran Mamdani speaks a new language, one that young New Yorkers recognize as sincere and have decided to trust. The great wonder of this New York autumn is that a whole generation of young people has thrown itself into politics.