America’s insurgent far-left is not as naive as you think
The politics of left-leaning Democrats may be radical, but their campaigning rests on an old lesson establishment parties have forgotten – listen hard.
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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both millennials, have emerged as the movement’s most recognisable figureheads.
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Perhaps the biggest question in US politics, with November’s midterm elections looming, is how far the Democratic Socialists of America can go.
A decade ago, few serious US politics watchers, in Asia or America itself, would have imagined the DSA becoming a force to be reckoned with. Yet here it is, commanding attention well beyond the socialist left.
