Dems Wonder: Is It Bad That Our New Star Is a Intifada-Globalizing Socialist?

[rangerrebew]

Dems Wonder: Is It Bad That Our New Star Is a Intifada-Globalizing Socialist?
Ed Morrissey  9:20 AM | June 26, 2025
   
 
It's not bad at all ... if you're a Republican, or if you don't live in New York City. Or Chicago. Or Los Angeles. Or ... well, practically everywhere the Democrat Party competes.
 

After running their strategy of being the I Hate Trump Party and losing the election despite two solid years of lawfare to kneecap Donald Trump, one might have expected some change in direction among Democrats. Nope -- they're still obsessed with Orange Man Bad, and Zohran Mamdani played the one note Democrats know to perfection in the mayoral primary. Now that Mamdani has run the Biden/Harris playbook and won, suddenly the Dem 'establishment' is 'panicking,' according to Axios, and for good reason:

Many Democratic leaders and donors are panicking about Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist who won the party's nomination to be the next mayor of New York City.

Why it matters: Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024's losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party's brand nationally — while young progressives believe his formula could spread beyond New York.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/26/dems-wonder-is-it-bad-that-our-new-star-is-a-intifada-globalizing-socialist-n3804196#google_vignette

[Free Vulcan]

I have a feeling he'll be the gift that keeps on giving.

[jmyrlefuller]

I have a feeling he'll be the gift that keeps on giving.

Which is why I'm not losing sleep over him winning a primary.

I might lose some sleep over the right-wing intelligentsia (which, inasmuch as it still exists in the era of Trump, is a misnomer) demanding we all throw our weight behind Adams or worse, Cuomo, when there's still a Republican candidate.

The Democrats chose their man. Why should we automatically presume, even in New York City, that the Democrats get the final say on who's elected? Instead, we have the right wing so panicked that they're talking about invoking the Communist Control Act. You do realize how horrible of a look it is to throw a political candidate out of the country for his beliefs, in the middle of an election, right? Republicans do that, and they lose any right to complain about "lawfare" over the President's bribery convictions.