Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A 43-year-old community organizer with little management experience challenges the incumbent establishment Democratic mayor of a deep blue city. If you think this story is about socialist Katie Wilson defeating Mayor Bruce Harrell in Seattle last week, you are wrong.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has a well below 50% approval rating, is now being challenged by Rae Huang, another Democratic Socialists of America party member with no professional experience outside of working for far-left nonprofit groups that push socialist policies in Democratic Party-controlled states and cities.
Like Wilson, Huang is running on a platform of free public transit, rent control, replacing police with social workers, and, of course, higher taxes on high-income individuals and businesses. She is relatively unknown and underfunded at the moment, but the same was true of not just Wilson before her most recent campaign, but also New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who garnered just 1% in February 2025 polling before he defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic primary…