What Happened to the Left in New York on Tuesday?

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images/Working Families party Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her socialist allies dramatically upended politics as we once knew it, three incumbent state legislators losing in one night would have been a big deal.

Yet the narrative coming out of Tuesday is one of progressive failure. Both the DSA and the Working Families Party ran large slates in the Assembly primaries, and almost all of them lost. At the top of the ticket, the WFP-endorsed Jumaane Williams and Ana María Archila, lost badly in the races for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively. Kathy Hochul and Antonio Delgado were triumphant, far outrunning their opposition on both the left and the right.

“I don’t think the progressive movement is dead,” says one high-ranking Democratic operative unaffiliated with the insurgents. “It was a boring election. I voted just to be a voter. I wasn’t running to the polls. I think progressives do well when people are excited and interested.” One reality of Tuesday was that incumbency trumped ideology. If conservative Democrats like Michael Benedetto in the Bronx could easily repel left-wing rivals, so could two socialist assemblywomen, Emily Gallagher and Phara Souffrant Forrest, who breezed past their primary opponents. If a candidate held office already, the law of political gravity applied: The candidate was very likely to win.

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