America’s fixed rise

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We all know the rise of the authoritarian right in America, and the risks it provides to both the economy and society. But what about the difficult left? These political risks are now seriously taken by many in the business community who worried that the left left is disappearing, just as traditional conservatives gave the road to Maga.

The rise of the Democratic City mayor Zahran Mamdani (who is still leading in the polls after the current mayor Eric Adams comes out of the race); The emergence of a number of other left -wing populists such as Graham Blatner (one of the Oisterman Maine who is likely to face the five Republican Senator Suzan Collins in the middle of next year); Even the hints that the Alexandria Congress, Okasio Cortez, will run for the presidency or the US Senate in 2028-

In fact, the issue is at the heart of the current US government closing, which is led by a democratic unwillingness to sign a budget that reduces the advantages of health care of millions of the poorest Americans in exchange for the tax exemptions of the wealthy.

In the past, many Democrats were unwilling to go to a mat and blaming the closure, but at this point, there is not much to lose politically or practically. Trump’s federal government employment discounts will continue regardless of whether the Democrats are on the budget, and given that the party’s support is at the lowest level in the record, there is no reason to take an audio position against Republicans, a position called by the popular Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Whatever the result, it is clear that future elections will be gained or lost to those who can persuade workers that they will fight for them. For example, the issue of the ability to withstand healthcare costs – the poll installments likely to rise by 10 percent or more next year – at the launch of “Trumprx”, a federal web site through which Americans can buy reduced drugs (from the paradoxes of taking a page from Obacare). The ability to bear the costs behind the freezing of the rent and a municipality -owned gossip suggested by Mamdani.

It is clear that populism is what drives this step between the occupants of democratic jobs and potential candidates to adopt a more clear colleague, the tone of business control, and focus on things such as the destruction of AI’s associated jobs, which instead affect younger youth. No wonder that 62 percent of this regiment holds a positive view of socialism, according to a poll of the Kato Yogov Institute. Some new campaign from the solid left is managed by veteran employees who worked with populists such as Senator Fairmont Bernie Sanders, or Sinator Pennsylvania John Vitirman.

Business is unexpected, especially Mamdani, given that the New York mayor’s elections are just a few weeks away. Wall Street, who found early donations began enough to stop his momentum in financing the attack ads. Real estate homes pay a narration of the capital of New York, the height of the crime and the “return to the seventies” in the event of Mamdani’s victory. Bill Ackman was particularly aggressive texture, claiming that hundreds of millions of dollars in the campaign are available to anyone who could defeat him, although the anti -Mamdans’ donations had recently slowed down given the inevitability of his victory.

Will the left’s popularity be worse than right -wing tyranny? This type is not. In fact, I would like to claim that most Americans do not have any idea of ​​what socialism is, given that much of what it goes through in the United States will be considered the middle of the road in most of Europe. But it is true that taxes on wealth and organizational burdens – already high in some areas – can increase if the hard left has gained. This is something that criticized the so -called “Al -Wafra” camp in the Democratic Party.

The populists have focused on the ability to bear the costs, but so far the policies offered by both the right and the left and apparent and dedicated. Simply the pieces will not fit American housing crisisAnd the large economic contraction may make unemployment, instead of inflation, is the most urgent economic anxiety. What is required is something that connects these ideas A solid theory of power and how it works.

Here, the populist left will have to wrestle with what is good, and what will succeed. Mamdani is right that New York City cannot bear it completely for most ordinary people. But assuming that he wins, I would like to see more accurate in organization, for example, Adult real estate owners instead of young people. Universal Childcare, another idea that he suggested, should pay, in exchange for it in one way or another. But as the Biden Administration has proven, there are ways to make it work for work as well – see how the former trading secretary Gina Raymondo linked the provisions of children’s care to federal benefits To invest semiconductors.

Whether Democrats win or lose points because of their popular position in closing the current government, a lot will tell us about the depth of support for the difficult left. But what is really clear is that the center does not carry.

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