Zohran Mamdani won’t be able to eat the Democratic Party alive. The man who would probably be, on the basis of raw political talent, the most thrilling of the 2028 presidential contenders can never be president. That’s the only silver lining for the centrists and conservatives who revile the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City. He was born in Uganda and is thus constitutionally ineligible. What this means is that, for the American Left, the trick Donald Trump pulled off on the Republican side of the ledger will not be immediately repeated. (Disclosure: In 2018, when I ran for office, Mamdani was my campaign manager.) But the Democratic establishment should only take so much heart in this. A quirk of history has kept the mayor of New York from seeking the presidency. How