Socialists Are Winning Using Old-Fashioned Democratic Means

It feels good to be a socialist right now. Last year, Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election shook the political world at home and abroad. This June, New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) won a in nine out of the ten New York City congressional and state legislative primaries that we ran in, along with an upset win in and the unseating of a twenty-eight-year incumbent in . Outside of New York State, we have seen victories in , , and most…