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Candidates endorsed by New York City\u2019s democratic-socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, swept the city\u2019s primary elections yesterday, provoking alarm in both conservative and centrist circles over the future of the Democratic Party. The right-wing New York Post<\/em> dubbed the winners, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, the \u201chateful slate.\u201d The Free Press<\/em> quoted a supporter of one of the defeated candidates warning that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t feel safe to be Jewish anymore,\u201d notwithstanding the fact that one of those winners, Lander, is Jewish and a self-described liberal Zionist. New York Attorney General Letitia James told CNN, \u201cAll of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don\u2019t blow it up. That\u2019s what MAGA has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more New York\u2019s Warning for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer<\/a><\/p>\n

The leftist trend goes beyond New York. In Seattle, the democratic socialist Katie Wilson is five months into her first term as mayor. Another democratic socialist, Janeese Lewis George, won the Democratic primary last week in Washington, D.C., and will likely be the city\u2019s next mayor. In Los Angeles, the democratic socialist Nithya Raman has a good chance of unseating incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.<\/p>\n

Overinterpreting election results the day after a contest is easy. Less than a year ago, the victories of Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in Virginia\u2019s and New Jersey\u2019s gubernatorial races were being framed as a rebuke to the Democrats\u2019 left wing. But the boring reality may be that different places have different politics; all of these candidates are suited to their particular contests. Virginia and New Jersey demanded more moderate challengers, whereas New York, especially New York City, has enough left-of-liberal voters\u2014and organizers and volunteers\u2014to sustain more left-wing candidates. What\u2019s happening in Brooklyn doesn\u2019t necessarily tell us what will happen in Texas. This isn\u2019t blowing up the Democratic Party so much as realigning its leaders with the views of their current constituencies.<\/p>\n

Rather than announcing that the Democratic Party is facing a binary choice, we should think of the democratic socialists, Harold Meyerson writes, as the \u201curban wing\u201d of the Democratic Party. These candidates won in liberal areas where people are looking for alternatives to the Democrats because the costs of necessities such as housing, food, and child care have risen dramatically\u2014places where the most trumpeted Republican solution is to demonize immigrants and those they associate with immigrants.<\/p>\n

The right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson declared the New York results the \u201cconsequences of importing third worlders who hate us and our heritage.\u201d In case you\u2019re wondering who the \u201cus\u201d is here, another right-wing podcaster, Matt Walsh, complained that \u201cthird world communists are the enemy. They\u2019ve taken over our greatest American city\u201d and \u201chate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions.\u201d What\u2019s notable is that Johnson and Walsh aren\u2019t talking about undocumented immigrants or about immigrants. They\u2019re complaining about nonwhite people being able to vote.<\/p>\n

Read more New York\u2019s Warning for Democratic Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n

Democratic voters have been more than willing to support Republican moderates in the past, even in deep-blue states such as Maryland and Massachusetts, but bridging that distance has become harder since the party became Donald Trump\u2019s cult of personality, and since right-wing media figures have been more hostile to the idea of multiracial democracy. It\u2019s hard to win over people in \u201cour greatest American city\u201d\u2014or in other cities, for that matter\u2014if your fiercest advocates post and podcast constantly about hating the people who live there.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s class war against the college-educated, and its deployment of federal agents to harass and racially profile people of color, including American citizens, have also created a demand for more strident opposition among these two traditionally Democratic constituencies. Not just opposition to Republicans, but opposition to their power base\u2014the oligarchs who have embraced the administration in exchange for tax cuts and favorable regulations. Democratic socialists seem eager to take on Trump, but many of them can also articulate a clear political narrative of state capture by the ultra-wealthy. Americans who watched their health-care premiums skyrocket while the richest man in the world dictated White House policy and left poor children in Africa to starve before becoming history\u2019s first trillionaire may be looking for something different.<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 moderate wing is not going extinct any time soon, however. The modern Democratic Party, by virtue of its class and ethnic diversity, has always been ideologically heterodox. An approach that works for a Zohran Mamdani or a Janeese Lewis George will not necessarily work for a James Talarico in Texas or a Mary Peltola in Alaska. Many people outside of the democratic socialists\u2019 cities and districts will focus on whether the candidates\u2019 stances on Israel and Palestinian rights reflect a shift within the party (and they do) and the fact that they differ from more centrist Democrats (also correct). But whether they succeed as leaders and politicians will depend on much more local concerns\u2014matters such as jobs, public safety, and affordability. Their fates will turn on their ability to deliver for their constituents. This is as true of the democratic socialists as it is of the centrists.<\/p>\n

Read more Vanilla Ice\u2019s American Dream<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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