The race for mayor in New York City is down to a progressive, a moderate and a conservative. But if you read the papers, you will hear that the race is down to a radical socialist, a moderate Democrat and a conservative Republican. Even more, you will hear that the race is down to a radical socialist, a moderate capitalist and a conservative capitalist.

None of these labels work, because Zohran Mamdani is not a socialist, and neither Andrew Cuomo nor Curtis Sliwa are capitalists.

Only a few Democrats, not even Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, will admit that they are not capitalists. Warren, in 2020, supported the same policies that Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont did in the race for president. He insisted he was a democratic socialist, but she insisted she was a capitali

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