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Can DSA Politics Survive Actual Voters? – The Fifth Column
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15:44Now PlayingThis is an excerpt from our Members Only episode (#338), which you can access here
Francesca Hong’s old tweets kick off a broader discussion about DSA politics, Mamdani, political performance vs. governance, and whether democratic socialist candidates can win outside deep-blue primaries.
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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