Bernie won 2016 Dem primary
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National Implications: Andrew on Mamdani as Test Case
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Andrew contextualizes Mamdani in a national arc stretching back through Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders's 2016 near-miss: the Democratic Party has been moving toward open socialism for over a decade, and Mamdani would be the proof of concept that it can win at the ballot box. The concern isn't just New York — it's that a Mamdani victory opens the floodgates for nationally ambitious Democrats to drop their coded language and go full socialist. Charlie notes that growing inequality gives these candidates a structural opening, and that a whole new generation of Americans either wants to see things burned down or believes the lie that socialism has never been properly tried.
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