Legal Insurrection by Elizabeth Stauffer 6/26/2026
Looking like a deer in the headlights, she joked, “Is that another question, or is that for the next interview?” The scenario Ronald Reagan warned about in the 1980s has come to pass.
What was once dismissed as the pipe dream of the Democratic Party’s far-left fringe has slowly evolved into a defining force within the party. Socialism has gained remarkable traction among younger Democrats, a generation educated in universities where Marxist ideology is presented less as a subject for debate than as accepted orthodoxy.
The victories of three socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the state’s Democratic congressional primaries this week left no doubt that the party has undergone a fundamental transformation. Just as a pickle can never become a cucumber again, the Democratic Party will never return to being the party of John F. Kennedy. Tuesday night’s socialist sweep may well have been the coup de grâce for the party’s moderate wing.
On Wednesday morning, Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) appeared as a guest on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to discuss the primary results with the show’s host, Joe Kernen.
Blunt Rochester was delighted by “the fact that people are engaged at a level they’ve never been engaged before.” Regarding the outcome of the New York primaries, she emphasized that “all politics are local.”
She explained that Democratic candidates tailor their campaigns to the states and districts they seek to represent, noting that Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola has adopted the slogan “fish, family, and freedom.”
“Fish might not work in New York, or it might not work in North Carolina, but that [socialism] works there. And so for us, the most important thing is that we hear the people. We want to be known that we’re listening to them and that we’re fighting for them. And again, it might look different in different places across the country, but we do believe that people are concerned about this economy and the cost of things. And so we’re going to continue to fight for them. So to me, it’s a win-win,” Blunt Rochester said.
Right.
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