"Defunding the police was a mainstream Democratic position in the wake of the George Floyd riots – which Democrats also supported. Party officials reluctantly stepped away from this only after crime rates skyrocketed in “defund” cities."
"It has been amusing to watch Democrats struggle to cope with the success of 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani’s decisive win in the New York mayoral primaries. Why all the handwringing? Mamdani is now the mainstream of the once great Democratic Party.
"The only difference is that Mamdani isn’t afraid to say what other Democratic politicians try to hide.
"Think about what Mamdani has proposed or supported:A yearlong freeze on rent
A $30 minimum wage
Free bus service
City-owned grocery stores
Defunding the police
Calling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide.
“Mainstream Democrats” support every one of these positions in one way or another.
"Consider, first, the label “socialist.” While Democratic politicians try to pretend that they aren’t that, 57% of self-identified Democrats have a positive view of socialism, according to a 2022 survey by the Pew Research Center. Just 46% had a positive view of capitalism.
"A 2021 Fox News poll found that 59% of registered Democrats had a positive view of socialism, compared to just 49% who felt that way about capitalism.
Democrats voted for a Castro-loving leftist, Karen Bass, to run the nation’s second-largest city, Illinois Democrats elected far-left leftist Brandon Johnson to run Chicago, and a “trust fund billionaire extremist” to run the state. Minnesota Democrats did the same when they tapped Tim Walz as governor.
"In other words, socialism is the beating heart of today’s Democratic Party.
"Mamdani’s proposal of a rent freeze is also right in line with the Democratic Party’s endless push for rent control. It was Biden, after all, who ran for reelection promising to impose a nationwide 5% cap on rent increases for the next two years, an idea Kamala Harris later endorsed.
"On the minimum wage, Mamdani is in synch with many other Democrats. In Los Angeles, for example, Democrats approved a plan to raise the minimum wage for workers in hotels with more than 60 rooms to $30 by 2028. California already has a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has proposed a $50 minimum wage." . . .
"Fellow socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now considered a legitimate presidential candidate, called Israel’s war against Hamas “genocide,” a view that the last Democratic presidential candidate, Harris, essentially endorsed when she responded to a heckler screaming “genocide” by saying “Listen, what he’s talking about, it’s real. It’s real.' ”
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