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So, here we go. Four of the largest American cities have, or are about to have, open, avowed, loud & proud socialist mayors. Not long ago, those on the Left who harbored socialist predilections, like those who harbor indelicate sexual predilections, went to some trouble to hide them. (You\u2019ll recall that the Grand Poobahs of the Democratic Party pushed Bernie Sanders off their presidential ticket in 2008 because he dared say the “S” word out loud.)<\/p>\n
No longer.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s ever-more-radical Democratic Party, being a socialist is a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n
Today, the leading lights of the Democratic Party are unapologetically socialist and the one-time \u201cmoderate\u201d leaders of the party \u2013 think Pelosi and Schumer (and please<\/em> note the air quotes around \u201cmoderate\u201d) \u2013 increasingly find themselves on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n New York led the Dems\u2019 leftward lurch in 2018 by electing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2013 a.k.a. AOC \u2013 to represent New York\u2019s 14th<\/sup>Congressional District. But she now looks positively Churchillian compared to New York City\u2019s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Just this week, Democratic primary voters in New York nominated four more avowed socialists to represent the state in the U.S. Congress. There is little doubt that all four will win in the general election in November.<\/p>\n Moving across the country, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson is an avowed socialist. Los Angeles recently nominated avowed socialist Nithya Raman for mayor. She, too, is expected to win in the general.<\/p>\n The same for Washington, D.C.\u2019s Janeese Lewis George, now the Democratic nominee for mayor, and also expected to easily win in November.<\/p>\n Those of us old enough to remember the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union are shaking our heads in dismay as we realize that we\u2019ve learned nothing from the failures of prior attempts at socialism. The lessons that followed from the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse in 1991 apparently didn\u2019t stick. Ditto the more recent story of Venezuela.<\/p>\n Socialism succeeds at little other than creating shared unhappiness. To the extent that China\u2019s economy works, it\u2019s because the 1978 reforms of Deng Xiaoping created a socialist\/capitalist hybrid that made it possible \u2013 on a limited basis — for private citizens to own property (sort of) and accumulate personal wealth (sort of).<\/p>\n Socialists are misguided at best \u2013 believing that a small cabal of government \u201cexperts\u201d can better direct the economy than millions of free individuals acting independently while risking their own capital.<\/p>\n They\u2019re evil at worst because for socialism to work, it must steal the fruits of labor from the productive to give to the non-productive. That theft ultimately takes place at gunpoint.<\/p>\n But socialism\u2019s dismal and bloody record notwithstanding, according to recent polls, as many as two thirds of Democrats now think it\u2019s a good idea. They conveniently ignore socialism\u2019s indisputable record of mass murder, mass misery and ultimate bankruptcy.<\/p>\n The lesson of 2026 is that the center of gravity in the Democratic Party is now socialist. We\u2019re in uncharted waters. And I\u2019d be a fool if I started predicting how it will all turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Socialism\u2019s dismal and bloody record notwithstanding, according to recent polls, as many as two thirds of Democrats now think it\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1518424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.youtellmetexas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ytmt6-25-26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ytmt-homepage"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 16:50:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.youtellmetexas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ytmt6-25-26.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518425,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518419\/revisions\/1518425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}