Washington DC is ready to try the Mamdani model
The U.S. capital is about to enter a new era. Janeese Lewis George, a 38-year-old member of the city council, won the Democratic mayoral primary. The newsworthy element of this is that the former prosecutor belongs to the party’s most progressive wing and is all but certain to succeed Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who declined to seek re-election after three terms. Her political rise pushes to the left a city that is not the nation’s largest but one of its most influential.
