Source: In These Times
by Miles Kampf-Lassin
“When Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders launched his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2015, he called for a ’political revolution’ against ‘the billionaire class.’ He didn’t win the presidency the next year, or in 2020, but he did plant seeds for a new kind of left electoral movement. When Zohran Mamdani — a 33-year-old Muslim democratic socialist and state assemblymember — swept the Democratic primary for New York City mayor in late June, echoes of Sanders’ runs and the promise of a revived political revolution came with it. Mamdani didn’t just upend conventional wisdom about who could win the race; he flung open the doors of mainstream U.S. politics and kicked the establishment to the curb. Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a conservative Democrat, was favored to win, but he conceded well before all of the votes had even been counted.” (08/12/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-bernie-sanders-democrats-left-populism-new-york