The Commie Call Is Coming From Inside the Democrats' House
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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Swansbeagrum preferred not to discuss the year he spent playing xylophone for Finland's very belated answer to the Village People.
Gosh, we talk about socialism a lot lately, don't we? OK, I talk about communism but, as I wrote the other day, I use the words interchangeably.
What I find odd is that so many in the political chattering class — both on the right and left — are acting as if the young idiot Zohran Mamdani wing of the Democratic Party is dragging the party in a new direction. Seriously, I see more of that than you might think. As I have been saying and writing for months, the Dems long ago wandered into Commie Land, they were just heavily invested in pretending that they hadn't. Until President Donald Trump upended the political tradition apple cart in 2016, the Democrats used to be better at playing a more subtle long game in politics. Since then, they've been singularly focused on being consumed by hatred for the man who denied their alcoholic Ice Queen the presidency that they felt she was entitled to.
Any nuance in strategy or tactics is lost to the Democrats now. Their coyness about being too far left is gone. The older Dems may not be shouting their love of socialism from the hilltops, but they also haven't once told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to shut her perpetually gaping maw. The old Dems are just like the new Dems. Mamdani and his ilk are the lizard faces that are revealed when the American masks are pulled off.
All that is really happening with the Democrats right now is a good, old-fashioned power struggle between the young and old. There is no ideological struggle here, because there isn't anything that Zohran Mamdani believes in that Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries disagree with. Still, some of the Democratic old guard (read: Clinton people) would like to put on a show for the public and say that isn't so.
My Townhall colleague Amy Curtis wrote yesterday about former Hillary Clinton advisor Al Mottur and his harsh words for the youthful commie types in the party:
"These people, they're not crazy, they're ideologues. They don't love America, let me say that," said Mottur. "A lot of these people do not love America and I'm not team Democrat, I'm team America. And if we have people in our party who are so far Left, that they are saying we don't want to protect people from crime, well, that's just absurd. And, by the way, we're not going to win a national election, let alone an election in Michigan, if that's our position."
Cool story, Al. Here's the thing, though — it is mainstream Democrats who have firmly established the soft-on-crime ethos in your party, not the young'uns. You all believe the same things, the younger Dems are just louder and more honest about what they're up to. It's working for them right now because they've seen how feckless the Dem establishment has become since it's been riddled with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Voters in general want something positive to get behind, but it's more true for younger voters who are filled with unbridled idealism. "We hate that guy!" doesn't move them.
Zohran Mamdani is vehemently opposed to ICE, but if you look at his public proclamations and interviews, you'll notice that he doesn't spend a lot of time specifically whining about President Trump. He's got too many fake free things to offer the kids.
Democrats have been repeatedly swan diving into the 20% deep end on every 80/20 issue there is, so it shouldn't surprise them that the rowdy youth want to make it all louder. No older elected Democrat is in any position to tell the young commies that they're going too far. My latest column is about an Opinion piece in The New York Times that outlines exactly where and how the Democrats should dial back the far-left insanity if they want to win elections again. You read that right — The New York Times is saying that the party is too out there.
The Democratic Socialists of America aren't a political party, they're a political organization. DSA "luminaries" Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are registered Democrats. They don't need to start a new party, they already belong to one that's sympathetic to everything that they believe.
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