In the aftermath of Tuesday’s New York Democratic primaries, three self-identified Democratic socialist candidates claimed victory, backed by radical New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. Campaigning on anti-Zionism, police abolition, and socialist policies, the victory of these candidates signals a major shift in the politics of the Democratic party. But Tuesday on CNN’s The Source, their liberal panelists were all for it.
Senior political commentator Van Jones proclaimed:
The revolution is being televised. That’s what I make of it. The Mamdani phenomenon is not a one guy thing. The democratic socialists are an insurgency in this party. We’ll see what happens in New York-13, but I think people who thought this was going to be a, you know, kind of a cute guy off to the side. There’s a huge infrastructure here, there’s a movement here, there’s passion here, and people who don’t like it are going to have to wake up and smell the coffee. This is a- this is a serious movement inside the democratic party. The left is on the march.
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