NYT: Moderate Democrats Gear Up for ‘War that Is Coming’ with Democratic Socialists

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NYT: Moderate Democrats Gear Up for ‘War that Is Coming’ with Democratic Socialists

Amy Furr 6 Aug 2026

The leader of a moderate Democrat group said members are gearing up for a battle with democratic socialists who may try to capture the presidential nomination in 2028, the New York Times (NYT) reported Thursday.

Some Democrats, including Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), have been warning against the rising influence of socialists and communists in the Democrat Party, Breitbart News reported Wednesday.

Indeed, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed beat establishment Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Tuesday’s primary in Michigan, where “the radical transformation of the Democratic Party is center stage,” Breitbart News said Wednesday:

    El-Sayed, a public health official and former failed candidate for governor in 2018, delivered the most high-profile win to date for the movement increasingly calling the shots in Democrat politics. While he is not a formal member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the ascendant power center of left-wing American politics, elected officials identifying as democratic socialists, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), campaigned hard for him over several months leading up to the August primary.

According to the Times article:

    “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” said Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, a leading centrist Democratic group, revealing to The New York Times a new $15 million effort between now and 2028 to discredit democratic socialism.
    Dr. El-Sayed’s win was not the blowout that some pre-election polls had predicted. But his narrow nomination in one of the country’s signature swing states still represented a critical moment for the party’s middle, which had previously sought to cast the far left’s successes as contained within the country’s most urban and liberal corridors.

    Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.

Cowan said, “It is deeply troubling to see radical, far-left candidates winning in places that are potentially presidential swing states.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/08/06/nyt-moderate-democrats-gear-up-war-is-coming-democratic-socialists/

[MeganC]

Don't think this won't be an actual war. The communists have never hesitated to kill anybody who gets in their way and they have not changed.

[mountaineer]

A year or so ago, we wouldn't be considering Fetterman "moderate."