"The new year opened with a pair of scenes that illustrated the great divide within the US and the stakes of the ongoing contest over its future. On 1 January, in a star-studded inauguration ceremony of uncommon pomp and optimism, Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, was sworn in as the new mayor of New York and delivered a speech that declared the era of small government and centrist inhibition to be over, and a new dawn of ambitious social welfare programs to begin."
"And less than two days later, from his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump, who was once thought to represent a decisive shift for his own Republican party, announced that his administration had carried out an action that seemed characteristic of the old, Bush-era past. An abrupt overseas bombing campaign and the kidnapping of a foreign head of state, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, were facilitated without UN or congressional approval, in plain violation of international law and the US constitution."
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, was sworn in as New York mayor in a grand inauguration that signaled the end of small-government centrism and the start of ambitious social-welfare programs. The victory grew from a decade-long rise of the Democratic Party's insurgent left and relied on mass mobilization of downwardly mobile and economically disenfranchised millennial and Gen Z voters, marking a generational shift toward a new, 21st-century vision for the party. Days later, an administration announced an abrupt overseas bombing campaign and the kidnapping of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro without UN or congressional approval, violating international law and the US Constitution and aiming to impose regime change and seize the country's oil and mineral resources. One project emerged from grassroots organizing and promises greater dignity for Americans; the other proceeded without public persuasion and offered domination and exploitation abroad.
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