Mamdani’s base wants campus chaos, the left needs a new playbook and other commentary

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaking at the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Bronx on Nov. 23, 2025. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post

Liberal: The Left Needs a New Playbook

“Despite ample opportunity to advance their cause, the left’s 21st century project has failed and failed badly,” argues The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira .

Yes, “left parties, including the Democratic Party, have succeeded in building strong bases among the educated and professional classes,” thereby capturing “cultural production.”

But this prompted these parties, once “suspicious of uncontrolled immigration,” to welcome it. And that “has been a massive failure,” alienating the old working-class base.

Rather than centering “economic growth,” the 21st century left promotes “fighting climate change, reduc