In June, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani , a New York State Assembly member, achieved a stunning victory in New York City's ranked-choice Democratic primary for mayor. Following Mamdani's win—what some see as a transcendent moment in national politics —pundits have gone to great lengths trying to decode what democratic socialism, a relative anomaly in America, actually is . Along the way, commentators have scuttled important details, understating or overstating the movement's potential spoils and perils. And here lies Democrats ' biggest challenge to selling democratic socialism to voters—especially the party's scorned and thinning racial minority base. Racial minority voters are more risk-averse in their voting behavior than white voters, and Democrats, including Mamdani,

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