Up until a few months ago, I would have laughed if anyone had predicted that one of our two major parties would be facing actual extinction. Now I’m laughing because it seem very possible that this is where the Democratic Party is heading. After its performance the past eight years, such a fate couldn’t be more deserved, or better for the country.
I find it incredible that the Democratic Party, in the locale that is supposed to be the crown jewel among Democrat-run big cities, could find no one to run for mayor of New York City any better than a 33-year-old Muslim communist with nothing to recommend his leadership except extreme leftist pipe dreams and a charismatic persona, disgraced sexual harasser and the old age home killer Andrew Cuomo, and also the disgraced current mayor Eric Adams, a man without a party. I’d vote for Joe Biden over that crew.
New York City residents apparently haven’t been paying attention to the other big city with an incompetent radical mayor, Chicago. Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the afore mentioned Muslim communist, won yesterday’s primary of horribles and now looks like the favorite to get elected to live in Gracie Mansion. He wants to make public transportation free, defund the police, have city-operated grocery stores, legalize prostitution, and pay for all of it with higher taxes on the evil “1%” and corporations. (“See corporations and business run. Run run, businesses and corporations!” ) Mamdani is a Democratic Socialist, which means he’s anti-American, essentially. He wants to eliminate Capitalism, because, you know, that has worked out so well everywhere it’s been tried. He also seems to question Israel’s right to exist.
Oh yeah, this will work out well.
Representative Jerrold Nadler endorsed him in November’s general election, despite passing himself off as a Jewish leader. His justification? Trump hate, natch. Nadler said Mamdani’s apparent victory was a “seismic election for the Democratic Party that I can only compare to Barack Obama’s in 2008. Voters in New York City demanded change and, with Zohran’s triumph, we have a direct repudiation of Donald Trump’s politics of tax cuts and authoritarianism.” Gee, is that all President Trump’s Presidency is about? (What the Axis calls “authoritarianism” is any non-Democratic President wielding the legitimate power of the office.) Nadler continued to appeal to the Trump Deranged by calling Mamdani as “someone who will be a partner with me in Washington to take on Donald Trump.” How exactly does the mayor of New York do anything in Washington? But New Yorkers will get change all right. Good and hard.
Meanwhile, the looming election of an anti-Israel Muslim is, sayeth the New York Times, troubling to Jews around the country who were already struggling with their place in the progressive movement: “Mr. Mamdani’s stunning victory confirmed their worst fears about the direction of the American left.”
Gee, ya think? Bruce would like a word…
Since the Mad Left of the 21st century excels at “it isn’t what it is” historical ignorance, nearly seven in 10 Democrats now express an unfavorable view of Israel, compared with 37 % of Republicans, according to polling released by Pew Research Center this spring. The New Democrats should love Mamdani, who has called Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide”—signature significance for someone who either wants to see Israel destroyed, or who is dumb as a box of hummus. He supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which calls for governments, consumers and investors to cut financial ties with Israel in protest of its treatment of Palestinians, who elected a terrorist government to wipe out Israel.
Naturally Bernie Sanders and AOC enthusiastically endorsed this guy, who bids fair to become the new “face of the Democratic Party”: smarter than Ocasio-Cortez, younger than Bernie, and not a jive-talking stereotype out of a “Madea” movie like Jasmine Crockett. The far, far Left wing of the Democratic Party is finally in control, and New York City is destined to be the debacle its delusions guarantee.
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I don’t know about extinction.🦕🦖 Several times in the past 30 or 40 years the extinction of one or the other major parties has been predicted, and it has not come to pass.
In 1992 they said that George Bush the elder could be the last Republican president ever elected because with the end of the Cold War, the Republican party had lost its defining issue. 2 years later the Republican party took control of Congress and 6 years after that Bush the younger was elected. In 2004, after the near total victory of the Republican party in that election, some said the Democratic party was on its way out, only to see an equally historic Blue Wave in 2006. After the election of Barack Obama, many said that the Republican party was on its way to becoming a rump Southern party. 2014 and 2016 said otherwise.
There’s no question that each of these times the party that got defeated brought it on itself through incompetence or malfeasance. Each time, however the party that took a beating learned its lesson and eventually came back. The American people get tired of the same people in high office or the same party in high office, and that goes double if the party in office fails or stumbles.
In most of these cases, the party in office made some mistakes or missteps and ultimately paid for it at the ballot box. Most of the time they then changed their approach, like Bill Clinton tacking to the center after 1994 or the Republicans going populist in 2020.
The Democratic party seems to have lost the ability to learn their lesson and has instead fallen into a pattern of doing the same thing and hoping for different results. What happened last year was a direct result of everything they did. Biden was a complete failure as president and trying to defend him was defending the indefensible. Yet they did everything wrong. They let him run again when he was clearly not up to the task, then they pushed him out and installed the worst possible candidate.without allowing any kind of vote, then they ran the worst possible campaign based on abortion and hatred of Trump. They also insisted on pressing forward with political prosecutions long after it became clear that doing that was counterproductive and probably hurting them rather than helping them. It really isn’t a surprise that they lost and lost the popular vote. If anything, it’s a surprise that they didn’t lose by more.
Either the lesson didn’t take, or they learned the wrong lesson. It seems to me that they learned the wrong lesson and now they are running more extreme candidates rather than less extreme. It’s one thing to campaign on extreme rhetoric and then pull back from it as the realities of governing set in.
Bill de Blasio found that out, and, despite two terms of crypto socialism, he’s now on track to be forgotten. No big loss. If anything, Adams was an attempt to move to the center, being a former police captain with less extreme rhetoric, who found out the hard way that throwing open the door to illegal immigrants eventually gets you to the point where your economy and social services get over stressed.
You’d think after the exploding crime rate and the tremendous damage done by the overflow of illegal immigrants, the city would have learned its lesson and started to move back towards the center. As you pointed out, you’d think with the example of Chicago also they would do the same. Instead they have decided they need to go full on communist with a Muslim Israel hater who promises them free stuff by taxing the crap out of the rich people and the corporations.
There are quite a few problems with that. Covid made it so that corporations don’t need fancy office space on 5th avenue to get the job done. It also created a climate for those who could get out of New York seriously considered doing it and some of them did it. That leaves a smaller tax base to sock it to.
I don’t think anyone including this would be communist fire brand has sat down and seriously calculated what city owned grocery stores and free public transportation and daycare would really cost and how it would be possible to pay for it. The only place I can think of off the top of my head that has grocery stores that are owned by the government is Venezuela, and we all know how well they’re doing, especially since their God of the poor died of cancer 12 years ago.
Time and again starry eyed believers try the dream of Karl Marx. Ironically, it was the greatest foe of the left right now, president trump, who said that socialism and communism had not failed because they weren’t done right, they failed because they worked exactly the way they were supposed to.
I don’t think the Democratic Party is going away, either. I do think it is changing. The realignment of parties, which has happened before, is likely underway. The questions are how far are the Democrats willing to go to appeal to voters and will it work?
I suggest that he get the opportunity to make it a “model” Democratic city. If he is successful I will stand corrected but he cannot be allowed to subsidized by anything other than New Yorkers.
I would suspect that some enterprising people will wipe out the stocks in the city owned grocery stores and then offered to people at higher prices. I wonder you pays the driver of the free buses
Well, don’t you know that it will mean that only people who drive buses for the love of driving will do it? They won’t do it for the money anymore. It’ll be just like all those doctors when healthcare is free!
The prediction of the demise of the Democrat party is premature, for a number of reasons:
I am not going to make predictions here about the Democrats changing course to sanity. The issue is that the party is at all levels captured by the hard left, making it hard for moderates to change the course of the party. As example of how the Democrats are in thrall of a radical woke agenda, you only have to look at the DNC and the (mis)adventures of David Hogg.
I would not rule out the party’s implosion. They have no leadership and no agenda. The Schumer Pelosi Clinton generation is still not going anywhere, and they’ve steadfastly refused to bring along their successors. Which vacuum has facilitated the rise of AOC et al. They’ve even pissed off the labor unions. All they have left are the public workers unions and the teachers unions. But it will take the formation of a new party to deliver the coup de gras to the Dems. Which fact makes their demise unlikely.