Sewer Socialism? Start Here, City Hall
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer ShowPublished On: Wed Nov 12 2025
Description: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has pointed to "sewer socialism"—the early Milwaukee model where socialist mayors treated basic public infrastructure as central to serving working people—as part of the vision that guides him. Listeners call in to tell us which small public-works improvement, in that spirit, would make life better on their block.
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