The political season some have christened as “hot DSA summer” is lurching to an awfully eventful close.
Just a week after a momentous but surprisingly tight primary victory for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (who doesn’t actually identify as a democratic socialist but shares the movement’s sensibilities), democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost in the Wisconsin governor’s primary Tuesday in a bit of a shocker.
The latter result is being greeted with a sigh of relief from the Democratic establishment, which feared Hong torpedoing their chances in an important state.
But that doesn’t mean the party is out of the woods or that this dynamic is going anywhere.
The totality of the results this summer suggests democratic socialists remain ascendant and could still cause the party problems as it seeks to flip the House and Senate this year. But Democratic voters have shown an ability to recognize and respond to that potential danger.
