[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.
Mamdani's socialists are not embarrassed when his election is celebrated with swastikas on synagogues, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's socialists in France lean on Muslim antisemitism.
Mamdani’s recent ... victory provides South Africa’s progressives with a stark, universal lesson: sometimes, facing a flawed political party head-on ... is the only way to change it.