By Adam Michel | New York Post
It started in New York, but now democratic socialism is on a winning streak around the country.
Months after Zohran Mamdani became mayor, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America nearly swept the city’s June Democratic primaries.
In Florida, DSA member Angie Nixon won the Democratic Senate nomination over the establishment favorite.
And it’s not just the DSA’s own candidates: Socialist ideas are being laundered into the mainstream Democratic Party.
In the upper Midwest, Abdul El-Sayed and Peggy Flanagan rode Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement to win Democratic Senate primaries, campaigning on Medicare for All and expansive Green New Deal-like policies.
So I took the DSA platform — dubbed “A Day Without Capitalism,” it’s long on rhetoric and thin on details — and tallied up the costs.
The bottom line: The DSA wants somewhere between $71 trillion and $212 trillion in new spending over the next decade.
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