But that was what New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani did in his latest video about Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The video’s basic message was: "Netanyahu is bad, all good people despise him but there’s nothing I can do about it." By that criteria, Mamdani’s video was effective. His supporters won’t care about accusations of moral grandstanding, since moral grandstanding is an indispensable part of their political culture. He may not be able to arrest Netanyahu, but by his criteria, he has still gained by his loss.