Jason Self

Meet the brainchild behind Mamdani’s success: Morris Katz. Morris Katz has built his entire career around electing DSA-aligned candidates and reshaping the Democratic Party in the DSA’s image. His client list reads like a who’s who of the far left: Zohran Mamdani, a card-carrying DSA member who just became mayor of New York City and openly calls himself a democratic socialist; Graham Platner in Maine, whom Katz personally recruited from his oyster farm with zero political experience and is now the frontrunner to unseat Susan Collins; Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, a progressive running for Senate with a long history of far-left advocacy; Claire Valdez in Queens who is a DSA member and Mamdani acolyte; and Brad Lander in Brooklyn, who is challenging one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress. The through line across every single one of these candidates is the same: anti-establishment, anti-Israel, and deeply embedded in the DSA’s ideological universe. What makes Katz particularly effective, and particularly alarming to anyone paying attention, is that he cracked the code the DSA never could on its own. For decades the socialist left struggled to get traction outside of college campuses and urban enclaves because their message felt foreign and threatening to working-class voters. Katz figured out how to strip the ideology down to its emotional core: anger at billionaires, anger at rigged systems, anger at politicians who sold out, and package it in the language of regular people. He finds candidates who look and sound like outsiders, puts a working-class frame around a radical agenda, and uses viral pop culture media to make it feel organic rather than orchestrated. The result is genuinely alarming. Mamdani was polling in single digits and is now the mayor of the largest city in America. Platner had a Nazi tattoo, a decade of offensive Reddit posts, and no political experience whatsoever, and he just cleared the Democratic primary field in Maine. Katz’s genius is that he understands voters are so fed up with the political establishment that they will overlook almost anything if a candidate talks a good game. He is essentially giving radical politics a working-class disguise, and it is working. At 26 years old, with multiple races still live in 2026, he is quietly becoming one of the most consequential political operatives in the country.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And the most dangerous.

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

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