The off-year elections are over.

After winning two key governorships and many other races, Democrats are happier than Republicans. And pundits are ascribing a lot of economic meaning to the outcome.

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” will be the new mayor. This led President Donald Trump to say that New Yorkers must “choose between communism and common sense.”

That is more nonsense than common sense. Mamdani is no communist, despite what Trump thinks that means.

But what then exactly is a “democratic socialist” — a mantle also claimed by this year’s Minneapolis mayoral also-ran Omar Fateh, several members of that city’s city council, along with several U.S. senators and members of Congress?

More broadly, what distinguishes a communist from a so

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