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I have been in public service for more than 30 years, serving as mayor, county executive and now in my fifth term in Congress. Unsurprisingly, I’ve been attacked many times. My instinct is to punch back. That impulse isn’t just political—it’s human. When anyone gets hit, their natural inclination is to respond, and in Washington these days, that instinct dominates the culture. That is why Jesus’ instruction to “love your enemies” is one of his most difficult commands. But if we continue down the path of an “eye for an eye,” we will, as Gandhi said, “all end up blind.”
He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.
Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who just won New York's Democratic mayoral primary, is a charismatic, smart and effective campaigner with whom I disagree. His campaign tapped into the same economic discontent that powered Donald Trump's rise, and his victory should serve as a loud wake-up call for the Democratic Party.
The New York Democrat says that the parties should work together on immigration policy.
Rep. Tom Suozzi is a longtime Democrat. But that doesn’t mean he’s solely focused on President Donald Trump. He thinks his party needs to lean in on messaging for the future, not just on opposing the current president.
The New York Democrat is doing things the ‘Suozzi way’ in a district Donald Trump carried
Tom Suozzi is worried about his party.
“The Democratic brand is broken on a national level,” the New Yorker said recently. “What do Democrats stand for? People don’t really know.”
The answer, in Suozzi’s mind, is to focus on economic issues and to relentlessly pitch themselves to voters. “We have to get back to the basic message of rebuilding the middle class in America,” he said.
The Trump administration has gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program, a move advocates say will wreak havoc on the program’s operations and bring critical operations to a standstill.