Two elections, one ocean apart, told the same story within nine months of each other.
In February 2025, Germany’s Die Linke—the direct legal successor of the East German communist party—became the strongest party among voters under 25, taking 27.3 percent of their votes. In November 2025, Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, won the mayoralty of New York City with three-quarters of voters under 30, carrying renters by wide margins and winning six in ten voters who named the cost of living as the city’s biggest problem.
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