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How his public intellectual parents shaped the new New York mayor’s politics has been a persistent line of inquiry on the campaign trail

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New Yorkers went to the mayoral election Tuesday with an unlikely frontrunner on the ballot: a Democratic Socialist whose rise from community organiser to likely next mayor has upended many assumptions about politics in America.