President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the coming days.

“We want to see everything work out well for New York,” the president told reporters on Nov. 16.

It’s more likely that Trump, who has repeatedly referred to the 34-year-old state legislator as a communist, is just looking for ways to rage-bait the far right and fearmonger about the “left-wing radicals” allegedly taking over the Democratic Party.

But Mamdani ‒ a democratic socialist, not a communist ‒ is just one of the people reforming the Democratic Party. That’s a good thing: As more young people begin to unlearn their biases about socialism and become skeptical of capitalism, the Democratic Party will have to adjust its tent to fit all these opinions.

Mamdani isn’t the only democratic socialist who won their election. On Nov. 13, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded to Katie Wilson, a democratic socialist who ran on........

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