Less than two months before election day, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani joined his political hero Senator Bernie Sanders at an energetic town hall at Brooklyn College on Saturday, as the senator chided what he sees as the rising threat of oligarchy in the United States.
Sanders, who was raised in Midwood and attended Brooklyn College for a year, has been hosting his Fighting Oligarchy tours across the nation where he has been supporting and recruiting progressive candidates to run for office.
“Zohran’s campaign is about an understanding that today we are living in an unprecedented moment in the modern history of our country and we have got to fight back in an unprecedented way,” Sanders told the crowd, spurring a round of cheers and thunderous applause.
Mamdani, who has re