Moderate Democrats claim a third way against the rise of socialism in the U.S.
When the young socialist Zohran Mamdani won the mayoralty of New York last year, a revolutionary hope swept through the left wing of the Democratic Party. With a close and charismatic style, a message that put the pocket at the center, and a viral campaign on social media, the assemblyman went from being a complete unknown to the beacon of progressivism in the United States in just a few months. His victory against the candidate supported by the party establishment, former governor Andrew Cuomo, who received eleven times more money in donations, was then interpreted as a national singularity, one that could not be replicated beyond the progressive stronghold in a country where, a year earlier, the far-right Donald Trump had won the presidential election by winning the popular vote and in all the competitive battleground states.
