The Democratic Socialist Party (“DSA”) in America is anti-West, anti-American, anti- and antisemitic. It is also on the march across deep blue America.
Tuesday nights sweep by far-left candidates for Congress in New York City, all backed by New York City Mayor , underscored just how rapidly the DSA is ascending within the shell of the fractured and frazzled Democratic Party.
Traditional Democrats who pay attention to their national brand are astonished by what has happened to their party as it goes full “Thelma and Louise” off the far left cliff of American politics.
This is the third act in a three-act tragedy.
First, former President s achievement-free eight years atop the country and the Democratic Party saw a generation of federal, state and local Democratic youngsters get wiped out in the political earthquakes of 2010, 2014 and 2016. Obama always took care of himself, but left the party to the ossified care of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer to collectively run, and they ran it aground.
Thats the second act: Every part of the Democrats suffered from at least a touch of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” but none more than the former Speaker from . Her and her colleagues ongoing obsession with President Trump â even after Obama had hollowed out the Democrats across the country â left the party without a platform or a leader of any ability or charisma who wasnt also eligible for Social Security.
Part three was the passing of the radical baton from Vermont Senator to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who are executing a swift takeover of the lifeless, void-of-energy-and-ideas Democrats.
The didnt happen overnight.
“When Obama took office, there were 60 ; now there are 46,” NPR recorded in March 2016. “The number of House seats held by Democrats has shrunk from 257 to 188.”
“There are now nine fewer than in 2009. Democrats currently hold fewer elected offices nationwide than at any time since the 1920s,” NPR added a decade ago.
Democrats have clawed back a bit to 47 Senators, 212 House members and 24 governors. But of the 7,386 state legislators, only 3,237 are Democrats (as opposed to 4,044 Republicans). Republicans “control” 23 states âmeaning the governorship and majorities in both legislative houses â while Democrats have just 16. Those 16 states are the breeding grounds of the hard left â especially New York and California â and the money that fuels the lurch left is from the well and like-minded dark money vaults as well as sketchy Act Blue contributions.
The face of the Democrats nationwide is now a combo of AOC and Comrade Mamdani, with a dash of other “Squad” members, as well as Senate candidates in Maine, James Talarico in Texas and soon, potentially, Abdul el-Sayed in Michigan. This is a carnival on wheels, and center-left Democrats are burdened by the brand. (There arent any “moderate” Democrats left, and before long every Democrat will be voting against anything that smacks of alliance with Israel.)
AOCs and Mamdanis triumph Tuesday night should be a win for the reasonable, rational Republicans across the country.
Take soon-to-be Governor of Alan Wilson. Wilson, 52, has been the Attorney General of South Carolina since 2011 while spending 30 years in the National Guard.
Wilson is a model of center-right “new South” governance and almost certainly a major player in national GOP politics for the next decade or longer. Hes one of the new generation of talented GOP leaders in their 40s and 50s who will be brawling with the hard-left DSAers for the next many years, leaders like Senators Tom Cotton and , Governors Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas and Ron DeSantis in Florida and a score of House members on the rise with national visibility. More younger stars from the center-right are on the way to national recognition as well, like Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, the 43-y
