Democrats board the crazy train in New York

 American Thinker published a consensus on this fearful tide sweeping American politics. TD

Monica Showalter  

. . . "Two is that President Obama, with his masked far-left, third-world background, swung the party leftward with his divisive executive orders and fashion-friendly exterior."  

 

"Democrats found themselves surprised by the election result in New York's primaries, where Democrat  voters chose extremists of the most repulsive sort over establishment-endorsed candidates, to win three New York primaries, driving their party to the farthest left it's ever been.

"According to the New York Post:

Democrats were shocked when a trio of anti-Israel, socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept Tuesday’s New York House primary races, warning that their ascendance represents a changing of the guard for the party as voters embrace the far left.

“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” progressive political activist and CNN commentator Van Jones told Kaitlan Collins as election results rolled in.

“And you can’t write off New York City because this … is a power center for the establishment and the insurgency. And they’re going head to head tonight,” he said

"And right now, this is no longer a movement. This is a movement and a machine at the same time. And there’s just no way to sugarcoat this: If Mamdani pulls off a hat trick, this is a new era in Democratic Party politics.”

"It's so bad the winners are from the kind of left that makes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez look like a moderate.

"They're calling for the death of Western Civilization:" . . .  More...

Democrat party dead? Marxists and RINOs ascendant? America doomed?

"Though I am a conservative, I must say that this is not good news for the United States of America."

. . . " Wokeness, suicidal empathy, and rapid demographic change have combined with the collapse of objective educational institutions and media outlets to sentence us to a sort of nation-wide version of MAID, Marxist Assistance In Dying." . . .

The other problem with socialism  

. . . "It would be tragic if the United States, which fought on the side of freedom throughout the Cold War, succumbed to socialism in the end. I worry the rising tide of suicidal empathy, coupled with a lack of knowledge about socialism’s history and sheer immorality, could bring a socialist revolution to the United States. I hope I am wrong." . . . 

 

Chris Talgo (ctalgo@heartland.org) is editorial director at The Heartland Institute.