Just a week after self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history as New York City’s first Muslim to be elected mayor, fellow Democrat Jack Schlossberg—President John F. Kennedy’s grandson—announced he is also running for office in New York City, in the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District. If elected, he would represent New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Both men are among a wave of young, progressive, charismatic candidates calling for change amid a backlash not only against Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, but also a historically unpopular Democratic Party that many feel is doing too little, too late. That list of progressives also includes Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva; Robert Peters, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ 2nd district; and Graham Platner, a Democrat running for Senate in Maine in a bid to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

But there are a number of parallels between Mamdani and Schlossberg in particular. Both are in their early 30s and grew up attending high school in New York City. They also come from politically minded families with........

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