MARK PENN: Democrats win the moment, but left-wing tilt threatens their future

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : New York City will embark on its socialist experiment, and the question is how that will turn out.
47% : Both have military experience, and neither is anywhere close to being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
47% : " THE TRUE COST OF THE 2025 ELECTIONS The big issue now for the Democratic Party is how far left it will drift under the influence of Democratic Socialists gaining ground within the party and being accepted by much of its leadership.
45% : Still, socialists often begin with promises of free goods and services, only to see those ideas collapse later.
43% : His smile and charm seemed to paper over his inexperience and his extreme anti-Israel views.
40% : Yet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a high-tax, big-spending candidate, claims he will solve the problem with more of the same policies, taken to the extreme.
25% : THE HIDDEN REASON NEW YORKERS VOTED FOR A SOCIALIST -- AND IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK Trump's shout-out and endorsement clearly helped cut the Curtis Sliwa vote to just 7%, but Cuomo needed more Democrats.

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