Scaremongering about democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who is now the mayor of New York City, closely resembles elite efforts over a century ago to stop socialists from winning another big-city mayoral race. On the eve of Milwaukee’s April 1910 election, one Democratic newspaper advertisement warned that under a socialist city hall “capital will be idle. […]
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