Three days before last week’s elections , the once-trenchant Saturday Night Live devoted its “Cold Opening” skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani , now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so much my face hurts.” The joke was that Mamdani’s permanent grin is false, an artifice he uses to appear relatable.

Well, SNL is no longer the must-watch entertainment it was in its earlier years, but it remains a good political prognosticator. Mamdani’s face hurts no more; the metamorphosis from candidate to mayor-elect means the toothy grin is gone, and Mamdani can now bear his totalitarian fangs.

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