New York City Takes Left Turn
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Election of Bill de Blasio as Mayor Could Be Test of Revival of Liberalism in American Political Life.
For the past 12 years, the nation’s largest city has been run by one of the country’s wealthiest corporate titans, a self-declared iconoclast untethered to either party.
On Tuesday, New York overwhelmingly elected an unabashed liberal activist and political strategist who is sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement and once spent time in Nicaragua supporting the Sandinistas.
Political analysts say the election of Democrat Bill de Blasio —who ran on a platform of raising taxes on the wealthy to fund education programs, cracking down on aggressive police tactics known as stop-and-frisk and creating a more inclusive, collaborative government—could become the biggest test yet of a recent revival of liberalism in American political life that is occurring in urban areas.
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