Socialists were more likely to find success in municipalities throughout Ohio and West Virginia than in some of America's biggest cities.
In early 1920, the New York State Assembly effectively destroyed the socialist caucus in Albany when it expelled the party's five members from the legislature, declaring that the socialists belonged to a seditious organization, not a legitimate political group.
With support from, among others, the city's radicalized teachers' union, five members of the Democratic Socialists of America won positions on the city council, joining another socialist elected four years earlier.
Progressives want to raise the city's hourly minimum wage to $15, but the socialists aim higher-to a $22 minimum.
In Seattle former economics instructor Kshama Sawant, who worked as an organizer for the Occupy movement that sprang up after the 2008 recession, won a city council seat in 2013, marking the first victory by a socialist candidate in the city in 97 years.
With term limits putting some 70 percent of the seats in the city council up for grabs in the 2021 municipal elections, the Democratic Socialists voted at a Manhattan convention last year to make council races a priority.
Just what the socialists have in store for New York City is clear from a questionnaire that the party is sending out to candidates seeking their endorsement next year.
https://www.city-journal.org/socialist-surge-in-local-government
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