They Fueled A.O.C.'s Win. Can They Shape the N.Y.C. Mayor's Race?
ast summer, the rising influence of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing in New York seemed almost boundless.
Progressive activists helped knock off an incumbent congressman, fueled upsets in several state legislative races and pushed policies on taxation and policing that put an anxious business community further on edge.
Next year, the movement may face its sternest test in the New York City mayoral race, a wide-open contest that will be the city’s most momentous in decades.
New York officials and strategists across the ideological spectrum say that the Democratic electorate has plainly shifted to the left in recent years, and a unified liberal front helped make the difference in a number of high-profile congressional and legislative races in the city and around the country.
But at a time of extraordinary economic crisis, staggering public health challenges and rising gun violence, the mayor’s race may serve as a barometer of whether the electorate will be swayed more by bold, progressive ideas or evidence of managerial competence — or whether they believe a single candidate can deliver both.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/nyregion/nyc-mayors-race-progressives.html
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I believe in using government to advance the general welfare in ways private groups can't or won't.
But anyone who'd throw the nation to the anti-progressive Republicans has another, very different agenda. So I call them various things, but NEVER the word they dishonor. It's an insult to all of us and does grave injury to progressivism by confusing voters.
As for mayor of NY, how is it that everyone without proven experience in managing a big city isn't laughed off the list of prospects? Or run off by mobs with heavy sticks given what incompetent politicians have been doing to us?
