Candidates endorsed by New York City's democratic-socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, swept the city's primary elections yesterday, provoking alarm in both conservative and centrist circles over the future of the Democratic Party. The right-wing New York Post dubbed the winners, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, the 'hateful slate.' The Free Press quoted a supporter of one of the defeated candidates warning that it 'doesn't feel safe to be Jewish anymore,' notwithstanding the fact that one of those winners, Lander, is Jewish and a self-described liberal Zionist. New York Attorney General Letitia James told CNN, 'All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don't blow it up. That's what MAGA has done.' The leftist trend goes beyond New York. In Seattle, the democratic socialist Katie Wilson is five months into her first term as mayor. Another democratic socialist, Janeese Lewis George, won the Democratic primary last week in Washington,...
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