Politico: You Know Who's Happy About DSA Wins This Cycle?
Ed Morrissey
I'll take a wild guess and say ... the Democratic Socialists of America? Obviously, but they're not alone.
Give Politico some credit in this report from the House GOP confab this morning. The word pounce never appears. And readers have to get to the penultimate paragraph before seeing the word seized.
Otherwise, we all know what Politico wants to say in this reaction from The Morning After, when Democrat establishmentarians more or less find themselves on the ceiling of the ballroom of the Poseidon after the tsunami. Republicans may not be pouncing yet, but they're coiling themselves in anticipation of the messaging bonanza to come:
Inside a closed-door House GOP meeting Wednesday morning, the head of the Republican campaign arm said the victories of candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered an opportunity for GOP House candidates to draw a sharp contrast.
Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina said “Democrats have a Bolshevik revolution going on in their primaries,” according to three people in the room granted anonymity to discuss the private event.
Speaker Mike Johnson also delivered remarks to Republicans setting the stakes of the election after the “radical” left-wing wins and urging Republicans to dig in and raise money to defeat Democrats this fall. He received a standing ovation, the people in the room said.
In other words, get ready for pouncing, and a lot of it. Johnson and the House Republicans took the lesson I laid out in my earlier post, which is that Democrats have transformed into a radical-Marxist revolutionary party. That makes midterm messaging a lot simpler, and it's not just Republicans who are aware of the advantage this opens for the GOP:
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