Can progressive mayors recover the Democratic Party?

Once again during the first round of Michelle Wu to the mayor of Boston, in 2021, she joined the enlargement invitation to help increase support for its strong climatic policies. During the years of the epidemic, he calls for magnification He was Politics, but I still find myself often on it, in this process, to meet candidates for local offices throughout the country. It is a good analgesic for the exhausting mockery that is the distinctive feature of a moment, because these people are often ideal, enthusiastic and smart. However, once in a while, you face real political talent – something rare but clear like, for example, great sporting ingenuity or a deep musical gift. It was Wu. Even with the embarrassment of zooming-“not kept!”-It seemed able to show all of the intelligence, and for the lack of a better word, and kindness: not Bill Bill Clinton in response to you, but a feeling that she was interested in the problems presented and has the following to take it.

I know that people who insisted that when they first heard Barack Obama’s main speech at the 2004 National Democratic Conference, in Boston, they knew that he would be a president, and I admitted that I felt the same feeling when I heard Wu for the first time. Boston chose her from a crowded field in this first round, and two weeks ago she mainly won eight weeks before the elections, defeating Democrat Josh Kraft, the second place in the preliminary elections in the non -party city, and seventy to twenty -three. Given that the Boston regime was the best two, Kraft, the son of the billionaire owner of the patriots, could have remained in the race to November, but he decided a graceful exit. If there are elections at all, Wu will be the only name in voting.

Many have been recently presented to the Denial Party’s ordeal in Congress, as it is struggling to find a response to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on our government-which leads to low standard approval classifications. It was made a lot of rapid rise in Zahran Mamdani at the media center in the world, where he came out of the public region for no place for Aweiber Andrew Como in the preliminary elections for the Democratic town in New York City. Both are important stories, but I think they may be busy in a greater story: Democrats can collect a new way of government, not at the federal level but in the municipality. Three election candidates in the main cities. This fall represents this possibility: Wu, in Boston; Mamdani, lucky to choose the opponents, and now applicant in the polls; Katie Wilson, in Seattle, which came through nearly ten points against the current Democrat, Bruce Harrell, who will face him again in November. (Little Seattle Boston.) They are all relatively young and “progressive”, and they appear to be decisively, they avoid many outdated grooves from American political battles by knowing ways to talk about things that are in fact concerned by a variety of voters who will inevitably constitute more and more elections. That is, they not only make the ability to afford cost, crime, or living “subject” in their campaigns and collide with millionaires to issue ads about them; They consider it to be Muslim that these are the daily struggles of many of their voters and make these issues their focus, which indicates new ways to seize them. In this process, it seems that each of them is limited to the cycle of ridicule that I described before: it seems that the voters have won not because they are necessarily convinced that these politicians can solve all the problems of their city, but because these candidates seem to be at least at least at least at least they are Try.

Wilson, for example, entered politics by establishing Union in Seattle True Reders, who won free buses for young people throughout the city. As an activist, she helped write the Jumpstart tax bill, which raises taxes on employees but on companies that pay the most stable salaries. In February, Mayor Harril, at the request of local heavens such as Amazon and Microsoft, led the opposition to a referendum on another tax on those companies that would help pay the costs of mixed income housing in a city that it needs strongly. The law was passed in a landslide, which seemed to confirm the idea that it was in old schools, and opened the door to the challenge of Wilson.

Wu – the first colored woman has gained the position of a city mayor who has seen a reputation in racism – a national interest this year for their standing to Trump on immigration. (She wears a sample on Wednesday, staining her forehead, and she faced a decline with a committee of Congress investigating her “city of his haven”; this followed a few weeks after the Tsar Al -Border, Tom Human, that he would “bring hell” to Boston. Last year, the city witnessed twenty -four murders.

As for Mamadani, the Komo, Trump and Robert Murdoch forces have tried to all draw it as a dangerous radical that will nourish anti -Semitism through the five municipalities, so that by passing higher taxes on the wealthy, he will lead billionaires in the city to Florida. In response, Mamdani focused on things like a thirty -fourth street bus. Of course, the way he took it, of course, along with his previous primary opponent.

Mamdani clearly knows how to connect the flag, and it is a more effective talent for its scarcity in the current political life. (Where Republicans are now specializing in anger, Democrats tend towards Anodyne-thinking about Chuck Schumer and his “very strong” messages to Trump.) It also shows deep knowledge of the city’s history-and he gets the last video, about the exciting issue of correspondents in the nineteenth century, Nelly Bla, who used it to submit his calls to address the vital cause of the street. Unlike many politicians who play problems in urban areas, it is better to throw themselves as a Savior, Mamdani really loves the city in which he lives. He usually wears a white shirt and a thin tie, somehow reminds us of JFK, who carried a campaign with a flash in his eye. Fiorelo La Guardia, the three progressive New York mayor, had this gift, as well as AOC, who won the seat of her home over the strength of her waiter and “Dance-Dance-Too!” The soul is as much as the positions of politics. In the Insta era, this type of Joie de Vivre is significantly effective.