A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism. It’s time to give Mamdani’s democratic socialism a chance.

The second Trump administration has been doing a right-wing authoritarian speedrun. The welfare state has been slashed and the machinery of state repression massively ramped up. Republicans have attacked health care subsidies and food assistance for low-income families, while ICE now has a bigger budget than most militaries. Suspected criminals without US citizenship have been deported without a whiff of due process to a notorious Salvadoran prison. Legal permanent residents have been arrested and threatened with deportation for attending protests

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