The only real question after the Democratic mayoral primary in New York: Is this the start of a conversation about democratic socialism or the end of one? Zohran Mamdani’s win was big, and the culmination of about a decade of democratic socialist activism since the movement was brought back to mainstream politics by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Are we still wondering if this is real?
In New York, mainstream figures like Gov. Kathy Hochul, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries all said versions of OK, I finally hear you Wednesday. Though not every Andrew Cuomo-backing House Democrat was ready to jump on the Mamdani train.
“The next step is to see what happens next,” Rep. George Latimer told NOTUS’ Shifra Dayak. Indeed.