I'm Rather Enjoying the Democrats' '50 Shades of Commie' Fight
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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The tumbleweed soup is best chased with a steaming flagon of regret.
There is certainly a lot going on with the kids on the other side of the political aisle these days, isn't there? Upstarts from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been rocking the boat and winning primaries, most recently in Colorado, which Rick wrote about here.
This is prompting many to wonder whether the Democratic Party Hive Mind Band might finally be breaking up. Our own A.J. Christopher recently wondered if the “schism was finally here.” Here's his intro to that:
Liberals have a problem, and it’s the same problem they’ve had for decades. There is a steadfast refusal to call out their own side’s radicals and nutjobs. In living memory, they’ve tolerated the Occupy Wall Street movement, the rotunda takeovers, the BLM rioters, the Antifa terrorists, Islamic extremists, the Squad clown car, and every blue-haired, errant, non-binary androgyne who identifies as a gelfling one minute and Atreyu’s luck dragon the next.
The reason that establishment Dems don't call out the freaky fringe is that they don't disagree with them. Any of them, no matter how whacked-out they are. The wilder commie youth have been the Democrats' useful idiots in the streets since the 1960s. What's happening now is that the useful idiots want an elected seat at the table. And they are not fans of the elected officials who have been using them.
This has been creating some drama that, if I'm being quite honest, is really high in entertainment value. Seeing all the loony lefties trying to "out-left" each other is more fun to watch than the chimp enclosure at a reputable zoo.
Pride Month brought us a couple of gems, most notably loudmouth California state Sen. Scott Wiener getting harassed by marchers at a trans event. Wiener pitched a public fit about it, but the organizers of the event doubled down on their treatment of him, which my friend and HotAir colleague John Sexton covered.
Wiener, by the way, is as far left as they come. For example, here is something that my Twitchy colleague Brett T. shared in a recent post:
There are no policy squabbles in this internecine warfare on the left. The elders of the Democratic village in Washington have zero disagreement with anything Zohran Mamdani and his DSA pals are advocating for. As I have written many a time, the Democrats have always been hanging out on the socialist fringe; they've just preferred to be somewhat coy about it. The new kids in town are simply being more honest about their intentions. This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's dream coming true.
This struggle between the commie generations will no doubt have some long-term consequences for the Democratic Party, but it may not be to the immediate advantage of the Republicans. Democrats come together for each other better during elections; they don't protest vote by not voting like disgruntled Republicans and conservatives often do. The Dem establishment types who are terrified of being replaced by the young DSA Marxists will still vote for them.
I could be wrong this time; maybe the hive mind is ready for a complete fracture. Whether it is or not, I'm going to have a lot of fun watching them eat their own while they try to figure it out.
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