Jacobin
US · 3 hrs ago
DC’s Next Mayor Is a Socialist Ready to Fight Trump
Janeese Lewis George just made history. On June 16, the Ward 4 councilmember and democratic socialist won the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, DC — decisively enough to end the race before all the votes were even counted and by the widest margin the city has seen in two decades. In the overwhelmingly Democratic city, that victory all but guarantees she’ll be the next mayor, and the first with an explicitly socialist politics to lead the nation’s capital.
She takes office, if elected,
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