New York City’s Rising Left Is Losing The Mayor’s Race
Posted on AllSides May 27th, 2021
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ANALYSIS
For several years now, New York City has been the beating heart of the American left ― a place that showed what was possible when progressive reformers, democratic socialists and Black Lives Matter activists actually gained power.
Voters in the nation’s largest city sent Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman to Congress, won some temporary cuts to the police department budget, and elected a new crop of state lawmakers who strengthened rules protecting renters and raised taxes on the rich.
It comes as something of a surprise then that candidates backed...