The Democratic Socialists of America must reckon with the unfriendliest political environment since a membership surge rocketed the group to national prominence in 2016. But it’s racking up successes outside of New York thanks to a focus on housing reform
Photo: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images These are uneasy times for all movements and politicians on the American left. The midterm elections almost inevitably will punish the Democratic Party, as the party in power almost always suffers in the first midterm. High inflation and various upticks in crime are now being hung around the necks of Democrats.
One question looms over what will happen with Jamaal Bowman, a prominent member of “the Squad” in Congress. It remains unclear, after an earlier rift between a number of socialists and his office, whether Bowman will run with DSA’s endorsement this year. He may come to realize he doesn’t need a socialist organizing base at all, and DSA, for the time being at least, could lose one direct line to Congress.
Without Bowman, the D.C. socialist influence will decrease, but it’s not as if mainstream progressives have a much better hand to play if Republicans control the Senate and the House, as they may after the midterms. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib remain DSA members. In the minority, they won’t be any less powerful than the aggressively centrist Sean Patrick Maloney or Josh Gottheimer.
And democratic socialism is no longer a New York phenomenon. In St. Paul, the Twin Cities DSA chapter was instrumental in organizing for a successful ballot initiative to bring a system of rent control to the city for the first time. Starting in May, rent increases for apartments in St. Paul will be capped at 3 percent, and there is no exemption currently for newly constructed units.
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