Mamdani Won’t Fix Democrats’ Working Class Problem: Frank Barry

After the 2024 elections, at least some Democratic leaders and influencers recognized that the party’s ideological coastal elites were damaging its brand with working-class voters. But a reckoning never came, and now a new ideological coastal elite is being heralded as the future of the party: Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist and Hollywood scion who won an upset victory in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor.

The often breathless and gushing national media coverage of Mamdani by liberal journalists and pundits underscores the denialism that has been plaguing the Democratic Party and threatening its future. Headlines in Newsweek and ...