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Hi, I'm Zagilani.

I am a freelance journalist who is a frequent contributor to persuasion.

This past week I had a piece in persuasion called the moderate minority.

You may have been following the New York City mayoral race as one of America's marquee cities.

I think the cultural and social and political ramifications and what happens in its

politics matter elsewhere. New York is in many ways a sort of cultural leader of the United States and I think the

mayoral race there is actually fairly emblematic of what's happening in the

Democratic Coalition. You have two candidates. One is Andrew Yang, who's an entrepreneur who ran

unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential

nomination in 2020, and you have Eric Adams,

who is a local borough president who has been a fixture of New York City politics for decades.

And Yang and Adams have consistently been in the top two or three candidates

in the mayoral primary there, which will take place on June 22nd.

I use this piece basically to analyze this sort of political orientation that they've adopted

and the political coalitions that they're putting together because I think that these coalitions

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