If Zohran Mamdani, rather than Abigail Spanberger, had won the governorship of Virginia, what would be different?  

After Democrats lost Congress in 2022, an irritated Spanberger warned her then-colleagues that throwing around words such as “socialist” or “socialism” had been disastrous. “Because while people think it doesn’t matter,” she explained, many “good” Democrats running in competitive districts had lost seats.