May 6, 2025
Democrats’ Dilemma: Unify or Divorce?
By Gene Schwimmer
Denial, delusion, whistling past the graveyard — call it what you will, but the Democrats have a problem. With each new statement by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Jasmine Crockett, Ro Khanna, James Carville, Chuck Schumer — pretty much any Democrat who speaks to or before the media — the question becomes, “Can this marriage be saved?” Can the Democrat party stay united under one banner, or is it careening headlong to an irrevocable split?
Two factions vie for supremacy in today’s Democrat party. Ironically, both sides are Marxists.
On the one side, Karl Marx: “Workers of the world unite!”
On the other side, Groucho Marx: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them...well, I have others.”
To put it another way, Karl Marx Democrats have principles — ideas in which they fervently believe and for which they are willing to fight and, if necessary, (figuratively) die. For “Karls,” the question is how, ideally, à la Margaret Thatcher, to “win the argument and then win the election,” and if that’s not possible, to impose their views on the rest of us “by any means necessary.”
“Grouchos,” on the other hand, have no hard and fast message for which they are willing to fight, win or lose. For Grouchos, the question is not “How can we get our message across?,” but “What should our message be?” What do a critical mass of voters, the minimum needed to give us the majority, want to hear so that they will vote for us? It doesn’t take much search engine sleuthing to adduce multiple examples of Democrats debating what “to stand for.” Move left, move right, or stay put?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/democrats_dilemma_unify_or_divorce.html
