Winds in the East: The Fall of the Two-Party System

NYC Seattle LA DC Some of America's largest cities are embracing Democratic Socialists as their Mayors. Cities on both the East and West coast are electing leaders from the DSA. Mamdani is absolutely killing it in New York City, honoring his promises with an impressive first hundred days. Katie Wilson won the mayoral race in Seattle last year as well. Janees Lewis won the Democrat primary in the District of Columbia, despite Trump's threats to take over the city if she wins. DC has maintained its current council structure since the 70's and not once since then has a Republican won the office of Mayor. So it seems Lewis will almost certainly be the next mayor of our nation's capital. The Mayoral race in Los Angeles is non-partisan. The incumbent Karen Bass will face off against Nithya Raman in the general later this year since no candidate won 50% of the primary vote. These are high-visibility positions, and I can only imagine how many DSA members are serving in lower-visibility…