It’s the summer of socialism in the US, with some progressives calling for revolution and Republicans pushing a modern-day Red Scare.
Democrats are contending with the ascendance of democratic socialists in their left flank and Republicans are busy demonizing Democrats, inaccurately, as communists.
New York City’s mayor, the Democrat and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, is opening a few city-run grocery stores and taxing the second homes of the wealthy with a beaming smile on his face. He’s had more trouble delivering on a promise to make public buses free.
Democratic socialist Francesca Hong, who has previously expressed support for the concept of abolishing police, is a leading contender to be the Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin. The August 11 primary will be a key test of whether democratic socialism can be sold in the heartland.
Unlike Hong, the progressive Democrat (but not democratic socialist) Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in the August 4 Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, has tried to delete and move on from his previous involvement with unpopular ideas such as defunding the police, as CNN’s KFile reported.
