Children held without *charge is uncommon. Children held in jail awaiting trial for longer than nine months – happens at least many 1000s of times per year. Probably 20,000+ times a year.

It is utterly commonplace for children in America to be jailed for years prior to trial. (And then, after trial, to face a sentence of decades in prison life and sometimes life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

It says a lot about how far to the right the Democratic Party has moved that AOC and Mamdani feel the need to use a new label to distinguish themselves.

I wouldn’t even call it socialism. Mamdani and AOC are what we used to call New Deal Democrats.