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DSA's More-Ridiculous Ideas Tap Frustrations

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/25/20

In normal times, a group planning a major push in next year's City Council elections built around cutting the police force in half, putting a moratorium on arrests, canceling rent and canceling debts would be written off as the spit-for-brains wing of the Democratic Party.

But a time in which the coronavirus and Donald Trump in the White House are both realities, as well as the gains the Democratic Socialists of America has made in both the State Legislature and the Chicago City Council over the past two years, makes even the more far-fetched goals of the NYC DSA impossible to dismiss.

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