Excellent overall analysis. One can only hope and pray that they (Democrats) go over the cliff in 2028. They certainly deserve it for the reasons you've articulated. Aside from their embrace of socialism, woke intolerance, censorship (when convenient), and DEI style racism, the antisemitism that has infected the party is off the charts lunacy--a moral compass gone haywire. To watch Jewish legislators trashing Trump and encouraging street violence while tap dancing around the in-your-face antisemitism all around them is especially disgraceful.
Good analysis. It also didn't help that turnout among democrat voters for their own primary was under 30%. It seems like many NYC voters have just given up on elections, or weren't motivated to vote for a crook or a weak mayor.
That leaves the field to communist activists like Mamdani to ply a leftist populism.
Now there is a copycat Mamdani running for Mayor of Minneapolis (another lost city). Whether or not Mamdani wins in the fall, there will be others as the democrat center decays.
There is no question that the radical element of the left has now taken over the Democratic party wholesale. The proof is not just that they are being nominated (and elected) in cities all over the country but that allegedly mainstream politiicans have been racing each other to meet the radicals where they are. There is also no question that this has dramatically diminished the size of the party as well as it's scope. Because Trump is who he is and is so widely detested by center left people, the deadly impact of the growing radicalism of the Democrats has been muted so far. I do believe if the epublicans ever found someone like a Reagan who has broad appeal but isn't so terribly off putting to so many, we would see old style landslides again. This could put a halt to the leftist juggernaut in the Democratic party. The danger for the rest of us is not just that the Democrats will inevitably regain power even if they remain beholden to the radical left but that all our institutions from unions to the academy to the news media are just as radical. This is the difference from the last time this happened in the sixties.
Excellent overall analysis. One can only hope and pray that they (Democrats) go over the cliff in 2028. They certainly deserve it for the reasons you've articulated. Aside from their embrace of socialism, woke intolerance, censorship (when convenient), and DEI style racism, the antisemitism that has infected the party is off the charts lunacy--a moral compass gone haywire. To watch Jewish legislators trashing Trump and encouraging street violence while tap dancing around the in-your-face antisemitism all around them is especially disgraceful.
Bill at his best!
Good analysis. It also didn't help that turnout among democrat voters for their own primary was under 30%. It seems like many NYC voters have just given up on elections, or weren't motivated to vote for a crook or a weak mayor.
That leaves the field to communist activists like Mamdani to ply a leftist populism.
Now there is a copycat Mamdani running for Mayor of Minneapolis (another lost city). Whether or not Mamdani wins in the fall, there will be others as the democrat center decays.
There is no question that the radical element of the left has now taken over the Democratic party wholesale. The proof is not just that they are being nominated (and elected) in cities all over the country but that allegedly mainstream politiicans have been racing each other to meet the radicals where they are. There is also no question that this has dramatically diminished the size of the party as well as it's scope. Because Trump is who he is and is so widely detested by center left people, the deadly impact of the growing radicalism of the Democrats has been muted so far. I do believe if the epublicans ever found someone like a Reagan who has broad appeal but isn't so terribly off putting to so many, we would see old style landslides again. This could put a halt to the leftist juggernaut in the Democratic party. The danger for the rest of us is not just that the Democrats will inevitably regain power even if they remain beholden to the radical left but that all our institutions from unions to the academy to the news media are just as radical. This is the difference from the last time this happened in the sixties.