{"id":20404,"date":"2025-11-12T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20404"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:43:04","slug":"mamdanis-win-suggests-a-socialist-future-for-democrats-and-a-rocky-one-for-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20404","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s Win Suggests a Socialist Future for Democrats and a Rocky One for American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“”Mamdani won about 62% of the vote among New Yorkers under 30, and more than half among those aged 30 to 44,” Spain’s El Pais<\/em> noted<\/a> in an analysis of the election, which was followed around the world. “By contrast, among voters over 65, he drew just 29%.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, Gallup found<\/a> that “since 2010, young adults’ overall opinion of capitalism has deteriorated to the point that capitalism and socialism are tied in popularity among this age group.” Among millennials and Gen Z, support for both stood at about 50 percent. But among the youngest in that cohort, socialism is winning out over its freedom-friendly rival.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/mamdanis-win-suggests-a-socialist-future-for-democrats-and-a-rocky-one-for-american-politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“”Mamdani won about 62% of the vote among New Yorkers under 30, and more than half among those aged 30 to 44,” Spain’s El Pais noted in an analysis of the election, which was followed around the world. “By contrast, among voters over 65, he drew just 29%.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

In March, Gallup found that “since 2010, young adults’ overall opinion of capitalism has deteriorated to the point that capitalism and socialism are tied in popularity among this age group.” Among millennials and Gen Z, support for both stood at about 50 percent. But among the youngest in that cohort, socialism is winning out over its freedom-friendly rival.” <\/p>\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/mamdanis-win-suggests-a-socialist-future-for-democrats-and-a-rocky-one-for-american-politics\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[988,1262,1595,600,509,751,560,948],"class_list":["post-20404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-mayor","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-socialism","tag-socialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20406,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}