Is Zohran Mamdani a Democrat Socialists of America loyalist or not?

As best we can tell, it depends who he’s talking to — a fellow believer or the voting public.

He’s bragged that all his ideas “emanate” from the DSA, but is desperately rushing to distance himself from most of the loony DSA program of social and economic revolution.

“My platform is not the same as national DSA or any DSA organization,” he now insists, but told the opposite story less than a year ago: “I have spent the last four years being a DSA elected official,” he proudly announced at an event recruiting new members in November.

“DSA is a political home for me and thousands of New Yorkers.”

Only now is he expressing any sense of distance from the local DSA agenda , and he still won’t say that any part of it

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