Our Democratic Socialism Rant | ATB #43
WEEK 43 The Socialists Are Winning. What Do They Actually Want?
We're in a fine Utah hotel for this one, and there's no guest — just the two of us and a stack of DSA's own documents.
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York. National DSA called it the biggest socialist electoral win in this country in a century, and 2026 kept the streak going: Chris Rabb in Philadelphia, a citywide breakthrough in LA, Janeese Lewis George in DC, more seats in Albany, and Melat Kiros unseating a fifteen-term incumbent in Denver. So we stopped arguing about the label and went to the platform.
We start with…
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