Dumocrats versus the invasion of the DSA
Trump often calls the democrats “dumocrats.” And indeed, in this case it fits. They let Bernie Sanders – not a democrat – run in its presidential primaries. They have allowed his fellow Democratic Socialists of America to run in its primaries defeating establishment democrats. They have supported radical members of the DSA in a senate campaign in Maine in hopes of defeating an incumbent republican. They will undoubtedly back DSA candidates in Michigan and Wisconsin for the senate and governor as well if they are in the general election. They may justify that support in hopes of adding more seats in the democrat column. But how do they justify letting the DSA run in democrat primaries against other democrats?
James Carville says that they should get their own party. But as of yet, it seems that he hasn’t convinced the party leaders. Perhaps that is because both the minority leaders in the House and the Senate are from New York where the DSA has had its most notable victories. But there are rumblings from the ranks to do something about the DSA invasion of the democrat party. Texas’ Henry Cuellar – no friend of the progressives – has warned that the DSA is using the democrat party to launch the radical agenda issued in its “workers” manifesto that I have discussed before. Cuellar says “They are trying to use the safe Democratic seats to run in. And they also know that the Democratic party is inadequate, but they’re using us or trying to use the Democratic Party as a vehicle so later they can set up their own platform.” Cuellar goes on to say “As a Democrat I reject what the DSA is doing. I read their platform and it is radical. They want to … get rid of the Senate. So constitutional changes there. They want to get rid of ICE. I reject that. They want to defund police. I reject that, reject also the constitutional items. They want to have open borders also. I reject that. They want to get rid of prisons. I reject them completely.”
Not surprisingly, the DSA and the Justice Democrats primaried Cuellar, spending over $20 million in two past primaries. They lost. So he knows of what he speaks. Now he should work to get the Texas democrat party to deny the DSA candidates from running in the democrat Texas primaries.
New Jersey democrat representative Josh Gottheimer has said he does not consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a Democrat, arguing the democratic socialist –and others like him – are attempting to “hijack” the party and pull it away from its traditional values. “He’s not a Democrat, he’s socialist, and we know that the whole socialist movement is attempting to hijack the Democratic Party and many of their values are not our values. We know that he’s against police and came out strong against law enforcement and has come out strongly against prisons in the United States and they want to eliminate the US Senate. They are very anti-American, anti-Democratic, anti-capitalist.” Okay, Mr. Gottheimer, now get your leadership to stop them from replacing your fellow democrats, please.
New York Rep. Tom Suozzi also rejects the DSA and says “We urgently need to redefine mainstream Democratic principles: we are capitalist, not socialist; mainstream, not extreme; for safety, not lawlessness; for reform, not the status quo; proud, not ashamed of our country.” “Support secure borders, safe neighborhoods and the rule of law, guided by economic interests and moral principles, not masked agents creating chaos.”
In New York City, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, reflecting on recent primary victories that displaced traditional democrats with radical socialists accused Mamdani and his democrat socialists of white supremacy. Letitia James also commented on the radicals being voted in by white college educated new residents of gentrified city communities. She said Mamdani and
the radicals he supported were ignorant of the racial and social history of the neighborhoods they would be representing. Successful congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier opposes interracial marriage and calls white women as “ugly colonizers.” Yet these “ugly colonizers” with college degrees voted for her.
Richards has also long advocated for expanded black and Latino ownership of private homes as a means of creating intergenerational wealth. Mamdani and his far left housing aide Cea Weaver consider home ownership as a vehicle of white supremacy and want public ownership of all housing. Weaver She celebrated the government’s “sacred right to seize private property,” called homeownership “racist” and said it is “a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.” Richards notes that the DSA is mostly white and is part of a growing resentment among black and Latinos about the DSA’s current success.
When Mamdani threatened to raise all city property taxes by nearly 10% the outcry was especially sharp from the minority communities. One person said: “You screamed affordability. You ran on it. You said affordability, affordability, affordability . . . And the first thing, not even three months into your administration, into your term. You want to hit us with a 9.5% property tax increase? Not happening.”
Then there is the reaction of Van Jones who posted on X:
If we can’t tell right from wrong, good from bad, smart from loony tunes — Team Blue will go down the same road that turned the Republican Party into a shell of itself.
We can’t let that happen to the Democratic Party.
Here is a tweet from another lifelong democrat:
So why do the democrats keep supporting this madness? Consider that Mamdani, himself, has blasted the democrat party has become “run by well-paid consultants and big money interests.” He was retorting a statement made by former chair of the democrat national committee, Jamie Harrison (who ran and lost to Lindsey Graham) “I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign. Focus on building the party you actually support.”
Mamdani said “And it’s representative of the fact that, in this country, there is just one majority and that’s of the working class. And that’s not just true in this city. It’s not just true in another city. It’s true across the entirety of our nation. And people want to see a party that understands that and fights for that.” Mamdani had earlier “lost its focus on working people” and pushed for more efforts to be done to combat high prices.
Of course, this is BS because the DSA has very little support among the working class and is using that label as a shield to hide its own agenda – which is now out in the open.
So if the democrat party is finally waking up to the rot within and the leader of the rot says that the party is the handmaiden of “well-paid consultants and big money interests” isn’t it time to purge them from democrat primaries and from the party itself? If the democrats do not do this they are indeed dumocrats.
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