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The Mamdani Effect: Another Democratic Socialist Is Running for Mayor in a Major Blue City
• Gateway PunditWell, if you can't beat them… join them, right?
As the Democratic Party continues to inch toward the far-left fringes of its base, so too has the rise in the party's embrace of socialist policies.
There's been perhaps no greater sign of this than what happened in New York City during its last mayoral race.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won that contest, and did so off the backs of a multitude of promises: rent freezes, free universal childcare, free buses and subways, and cheaper food via government-operated grocery stores.




