November 22, 2025
The Real Mamdani
By J.R. Dunn
The election of Moron Zamdani has led to the expected post-mortem cud-chewing, much of it devoted to praise for an excellent campaign on the Left and cries that the socialists are coming to git us on the Right. Neither is true. What we have here is simply the latest evidence of a derelict opposition party, unable to go so far as to field a plausible candidate in an important election.
When the concept of “blue and red states” was first employed in the late '90s, the idea was that blue states — those under control of the Democrats — had shifted permanently to the Left and were no longer in contention. They would remain blue Democrat havens until the end of time. Red states, on the other hand, were up for grabs. They would be targeted relentlessly until they shifted to purple and at last to blue, to remain in that state in perpetuity. It was a domestic version of the Brezhnev doctrine: “What’s ours is ours — what’s yours will be ours.”
This has been disproven time and again, Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, and so on. A good candidate with control of the issues can take the prize — though support from a viable, vigorous party is also helpful.
And that’s the problem. Throughout the northeast, along with scattered states in other areas of the country, the GOP is effectively moribund, unable to meet the lowest standards of action required by a political party. Large numbers of GOP organizations in these states have deteriorated to the level of elite social clubs operated by failing geriatrics who think that protecting their status is the key mission of the GOP.
They can’t recruit, they can’t campaign, they can’t canvass, they can’t do much of anything apart from “reaching across the aisle.” They are, needless to say, opposed to any kind of reform, particularly that coming from Donald Trump and his MAGA hordes. Their fondest hope as we move deeper into the new millennium is to last out the MAGA upstarts and resume their Rip Van Winkle mode of politics.
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