About this episode

This episode explores how the Democratic Socialists of America reshaped New York City politics through strategic organizing and recent electoral successes.

Back in October, we traced the founding of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in our episode “Beautiful Losers: Mamdani & the End of Socialism’s Losing Streak.” Now, with Zohran Mamdani’s allies sweeping three congressional primaries in New York, we’re back for a follow-up. In this episode, journalist Harry Siegel outlines how the DSA spent the better part of a decade building the machine that just reshuffled New York City politics—from post-Trump organizing drives and close-but-no-cigar primary runs to a movement that now has the Democratic Party establishment looking over its shoulder. How did it happen and what comes next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Harry Siegel

Topics covered

• Democratic Socialists
• New York City politics
• political movements
• congressional primaries
• socialism

Keywords

• Democratic Socialists
• New York City
• Harry Siegel
• political machine
• congressional primaries
• socialism
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democratic Socialists of America

Places: New York City

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