Those Marxist Democrats

  Issues & Insights  It goes unsaid that Mamdani's minions likely are those Keffiyeh-clad Hamas supporters rioting in the streets, oblivious of the fact that Hamas murdered, raped, and beheaded Israelis. The Jewish settlers who were enjoying life and hoping to be left alone with their families, un-raped and un-beheaded. TD

"In 2022, then-Senator Marco Rubio noted that a “bunch of Marxist misfits” were among those “who sadly today control the agenda of the modern Democratic Party.” Today, there are few real centrists left in the Democratic Party, as Mamdani shows."

"What will the Democratic Party’s 2028 platform look like? The way things are going, no one should be surprised if it looks like a manifesto written by a couple of bitter, revolutionary 19th century Germans.

"Marxism is no longer on the Democratic Party fringe. It is taking it over.

"We see this in the unpleasantness of Zohran Mamdani, the recent winner of the New York City mayoral primary.

"The callow Mamdani describes himself as a “Democratic Socialist.” Fact-checkers, who seem to never fact check the incessant claims by the media and Democratic politicians and operatives that President Donald Trump and other Republicans are fascists, say he’s no communist.

"While he might not be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, several of his known positions are inarguably in line with Marxism.

"Like Karl Marx, the privileged Mamdani, who calls himself a “BMW Bolshevik,” sees the world through the lens of class struggle. The platform of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a member, “fights” for “the abolition of capitalism” as well as the “social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure,” two Marxist principles that Mamdani supports.

"Mamdani is also promising “free stuff” for New Yorkers, from bus trips to child care; proposes to freeze rents (to stick it to those greedy capitalist landlords, no doubt); wishes to “shift the tax burden … to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods“; and says there should be no billionaires, though he hasn’t said what he’d do with the 123 who live New York City.

"There has been some light pushback from within the party. A few Jewish Democrats in Congress have been “raising concerns about” him, says The Hill. But many in the party are aligning themselves with Mamdani, even Bill Clinton, whose “third way” policies melded ideas from both the left and right, and by today’s standards was an ultra-conservative Democrat.

"With a couple of notable exceptions – the New York Times and Washington Post editorial boards – the media have largely leapt upon the Mamdani express. The hard-left British Guardian seems happy to report that “many Democrats from across the ideological spectrum believe” Mamdani “might offer a roadmap for winning back the voters they have lost touch with.” Salon says Mamdani is “good for the world.” The New Yorker tries to make “The Case for Zohranomics.” The Wall Street Journal insists Mamdani is “a charming and exuberant young man who raps about his beloved Indian grandmother” and “displays an Obama-like magnetism that attracts young people” and “some old ones, too.”

"Regrettably, Mamdani is not the sole Marxist Democrat who has traction." . . .More...