Mamdani’s picks win their primaries in New York
And winning the Democratic primaries in these House districts leads to virtually certain victories in November.
That’s the beauty of a deep blue district. Win the primary and you’re in. And what you might imagine of Mamdani’s picks is true: they are fellow “progressive” leftist Democratic Socialists, and are supported by the same voters that liked Mamdani. That group is highly motivated and fed up with incumbents for the most part – a phenomenon similar to the one that propelled AOC into her seat in the beginning of her career:
When campaigning Tuesday, Mamdani said it was not a question of electing more Democrats, it was a question of electing “better Democrats.”
CBS News New York political reporter Marcia Kramer says that in effect, he was tapping into recent a poll finding that New York voters were fed up with politics as usual and were ready to clean house.
The winners will be going to the US House. Then again, even if more moderate Democrats had won the primaries (although “moderate” is a relative word these days), they probably would be voting exactly the same as these far leftists. However, this seems to be the direction of the Democratic Party in safe blue enclaves: to nominate the most radical candidate possible.
In the 13th District, nominee Chevalier “won’t say murderers should go to prison, won’t support deporting illegal immigrant convicted rapists, and won’t condemn Hamas or 10/7.” What’s more, it seems to have been white voters who supported her and black and Hispanic voters who supported her opponent:
Espaillat led w/ older, lower income, Black, & Hispanic voters. “Socialist” Chevalier led w/ younger, college-educ., higher income, i.e. gentrifiers.
In the 10th District, the main difference between the winner and the 2nd-place loser was that the latter was the incumbent, Dan Goldman. Oh, and the winner is anti-Israel:
Lander’s knock-out of two-term Rep. Goldman delivers one of the night’s biggest intraparty upsets. Lander, who enjoyed the backing of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), defeated Goldman in a race that became a proxy battle between the party’s progressive wing and its more establishment faction.
Both candidates are Jewish, so that was not the issue. But Lander said he wanted to join “that fight to end occupation, and apartheid and genocide.”
This is definitely the wave of the future for Democrats. Although they will run less obviously leftist candidates in more purple areas, if such candidates win they will vote with the others.
And what is the plan of the Democratic Socialists? They’ve got one, and it’s nothing less than revolutionary. The left might not be able to win a presidency, but they would like to fix it so that they don’t need to:
Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America’s top leadership met for an in-person meeting of their National Political Committee (NPC), the DSA’s governing authority. The result of the meeting was “Workers Deserve More!”, a rebooted platform for the organization featuring a host of radical proposals. The document commits DSA to scrapping the U.S. Senate, “abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state,” defunding the Department of War, amnesty for all immigrants, and “replac[ing] the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”
As more and more members seek election to local and national positions, the platform represents a clear statement of the DSA’s views. Its radicalism, therefore, gives a glimpse into how the equivalent of the DSA’s board of directors—some of whom have appeared to moderate—actually think about politics.
It’s “our democracy” all right; the sort of thing the Founding Fathers worked so hard to avoid. It is also the fruit of the long Gramscian march through our institutions, especially that of higher education. I suggest you read the whole thing; I may write more about it in a future post.
So basically destroy the Constitution, impose their collective dictatorship. If anything would spark a hot CW2, this would be it.
The way I see it, the Ds are so infected with TDS that they then go along with these communists to their own demise.
Something wicked this way comes, wicked and braindead. I’m beginning to worry that so-called “democratic” socialism is a catastrophic idea whose time has come.
The highest goal of the next two years should be preventing it from taking power.
Ah yes, Antonio Gramsci. A founder of the Italian communist party. Mussolini had him executed.
Bauxite:
“The worst are full of passionate intensity.”
They leftists have figured out that they can win primaries in deep blue areas, and therefore elections. Primary turnout is low, and therefore the most fanatic voters can dominate They are doing this in many deep blue areas around the country.
The problem is that so many young voters are susceptible. The other problem is that these fanatics, although small in number as yet, seem to be the Democrat leaders and the more “moderate” Democrats the followers.
The left will start a civil war to take over and fundamentally change the country, the right will fight to kill the left.
CICERO:
His work lives on.
Wasn’t it Rudi Dutschke — not Gramsci — who coined the term and the concept of a “long march” through our institutions?
The problem is that so many young voters are susceptible.
The bigger problem is that so many middle-aged affluent white women are susceptible.
I always knew they’d be trouble. I am being serious.
I predicted that here before. The fundamental problems are:
– The current Democratic Party has no core beliefs.
– We have imported radical leftists, from India among other places.
– Crappy education. The big inroads are among the highly educated.
– Jews are asleep at the wheel as their party turns against them
The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover, things will get worse before they get better. If they get better.
There are a hell of a lot more people than just the Jews that are asleep at the wheel.
But the DSA has big plans for everybody. For justice, of course (sarc x 11).
Charles R. Harris:
In NYC the majority of Jews did NOT vote for Mamdani. NYC has also lost quite a bit of its Jewish population over time. The number of Jews in NYC is now estimated to be roughly comparable to the number of Muslims.
@neo
I’m not thinking of NYC, I’m thinking of places like Wisconsin and Wikler. There are many highly intelligent Jews in the Democratic Party who haven’t yet realized they are in a fight and that the horse they are riding might grow fangs.
Charles R. Harris:
Jewish voters in Wisconsin constitute less than 1% of the total electorate (0.8%). They vote Democratic 2 to 1. That means that the first thirds cancel each other out and there is 1/3 of .8% giving the margin for Democrats in the Jewish vote – in other words, .2666% of the Wisconsin electorate. It’s a very small number.
Wikler grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. It is exceptionally blue (estimates are about 80%, and that might even be on the low side). He went to Harvard.Chances are extremely high that anyone – Jewish or non-Jewish – who was raised there and went to school there would be on the left. He is a Democrat activist and has been for many years; I wouldn’t expect him to be changing.
IrishOtter:
No, the larger problem is young people. See this:
So voters from 18 to 40 are overwhelmingly Democrats. That’s a huge part of the electorate.
I cannot find a poll or chart that gives figures for middle aged affluent white women. There are figures for women, figures for white women, figures for college-educated women, figures for age, but no figures I could find for the particular combination affluent middle-aged white women. I have little doubt, though, that they vote Democrat. But I also find it very hard to believe they vote Democrat in higher percentages than those I’ve just given for young people, and affluent middle-aged white women is also a smaller group than all voters under 40.
We seem to be forgetting all those dead people who are loyal, even enthusiastic, Democratic Party voters, the Moslems who sniff the opportunity of a lifetime, and the illegals who resent the injustice of not being able to continue their creative grifts.
(Not just the illegals, mind you.)
Yes, the Democrats have captured the soul—and imagination—of a nation!
I wouldn’t expect him to be changing.
Exactly my point. He is a big tent, process oriented guy, and his world is about to change.
Dershowitz left the Democrats on account of his core principles. Core principles that the Democratic party no longer has.
Increasingly it seems the United States is heading toward a kind of showdown with Marxism. Perhaps similar to the famous confrontation in 1 Kings 18:20-40.
This is both frightening and a strange kind of relief. Frightening because I am convinced Marxism is one of the most evil and destructive ideologies in human history. A relief because at some point you need to face reality and undergo treatment for cancer.
Neo, I can’t recall ever knowing an American Jew who wasn’t a liberal, a Democrat, or a leftist — or some combination of the three. I can’t recall ever knowing an American Jew who admitted to being a Republican. And I’ve known a great many Jews. But, maybe I’m afflicted with Pauline Kael Syndrome.
Another thing that will spark a hot civil war is Scotus refusing to enforce their second amendment decisions. Just recently, they refused to grant cert in a case that allows gun manufacturers in New York to be sued out of existence. California has some extreme gun laws going into effect on July one. They will ban Glock style pistols and impose draconian restrictions on gun dealers. Virginia has banned the sale of a wide variety of firearms. Some Virginia sheriffs have stated that they are not going door to door confiscating firearms but it is not clear what is happening in the leftist DC suburbs in Northern Virginia.
Neo: I stand by what I said: affluent middle aged white women are the bigger problem. True, young people outnumber them. But….
IrishOtter49: I can’t recall ever knowing an American Jew who admitted to being a Republican.
Am I one?
I’m registered and vote that way. But, I’m more of a VDH conservative.
AppleBetty:
Okay, you’re one.
You don’t have to qualify your conservative stance by saying you’re a VDH conservative. I don’t know what that means. VDH is a conservative. Period.
BTW, I’m not technically a Republican. I’m not a registered member of the GOP. I’m not a registered member of any party. But I’ve voted Republican since Ronald Reagan was pres. I guess that makes me a de facto Republican. And I’m very firmly a conservative.
I often hear people blame white women, especially AWFLs, for voting Democrat. This lets nonwhite women off the hook. Why are nonwhite women less culpable for voting Democrat?
“IrishOtter49: I can’t recall ever knowing an American Jew who admitted to being a Republican.”
I have three Jewish friends here in Montana – 2 are doctors – who are Republicans and realize the Democrats hate them.
One moved here from Maryland, one from Austin, TX and one from Los Angeles.
T
Selfy said:
“I often hear people blame white women, especially AWFLs, for voting Democrat. This lets nonwhite women off the hook. Why are nonwhite women less culpable for voting Democrat?’
Single white women of all ages vote Left. As soon as they get married and/or have children they grow up, discard their infantile Leftism and vote Republican by and large.
IrishOtter49: make that two. Not registered, but I’ve voted Republican for decades–often holding my nose–and consider myself a political conservative. I’ve also weighed in on this forum on the subject of left-wing Jewish activism. As has commenter Ben-David, who (I’m guessing) would probably vote Republican if he lived in the States instead of Israel. We’re a minority, true, but we exist.
On your Barbarossa anniversary comment from a couple of days ago: not only the anniversary, but the 85th anniversary. And Russia’s war in Ukraine has been going on longer than The Great Patriotic War. Insane.
Hubert: Thanks for your post. Good on ya, mate.
Re Barbarossa and the present war in Ukraine: Yes, and the Russians are suffering Barbarossa-size casualties. Not Kiev Pocket size, but still quite substantial, in the many tens of thousands.
As for tanks, the Russians have to date lost c. 11,000 tanks (Ukrainian estimate) and an unknown number of AFV. In Barbarossa the Soviets lost an astonishing c. 20,000 tanks. The Russians certainly won’t lose that many in the present war, if only because they don’t have that many to lose.
Selfy:
Why are nonwhite women less culpable for voting Democrat?
Fair point. Answer: they aren’t.
neo: “… these fanatics, although small in number as yet, seem to be the Democrat leaders and the more “moderate” Democrats the followers.”
When I quit voting Democrat for good (about the same time you did) the main reason was not only that I felt that the hard leftists had taken over the party agenda, but that the party “elders” who should have know better were not pushing back for political reasons. That was before the rise of Obama, even, let alone Trump. This has been building for a *long* time.
“So basically destroy the Constitution, impose their collective dictatorship.” physicsguy
If they were willing to wait a few more generations, taking over might well be easy. But the more fanatical, the more incapable of patience. And that will prove their downfall.
IrishOtter:
For a long while, approximately 1/3 of Jews (sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more) have voted Republican.
Most Jews also live in areas where only about 1/3 of the population in general votes Republican (if that). The vast majority of US Jews live in the NY metropolitan area or the LA area. They are not voting significantly different from the rest of the population there.
But as I said, about 1/3 of Jews overall in the US vote Republican. The fact that you say you don’t know any Jews who admit they vote Republican is irrelevant in terms of the basic question about Jews and political affiliation. I certainly know quite a few Jews who vote Republican. Some are changers but many have voted Republican their entire voting lives.
Plus, Orthodox Jews are overwhelmingly Republican, perhaps one of the highest-percentage Republican groups. Depending on the polls you read, Orthodox Jews voted for Trump somewhere between 75% and 85%.
Israel Update, where Mike and Gadi interview Batya Ungar-Sargon on her new book “Jews and the Left”, (53:24): https://youtu.be/2GrZFeB1eZI
Fetterman weighs in.
I was speaking only of the Jews I myself have known. All were as I said. My experience is my experience and I can’t change that. I get your point but it is not relevant to my experience. I exclude Orthodox Jews from my assessment because I’ve never known any. Also you are misinterpreting me. It seems you think I’m saying something which I’m not saying and which I don’t mean. You know very well that I’m not antisemitic. Quite the contrary. That’s not what I’m about in saying what I said. I’m one of the good guys
IrishOtter:
Now you’re misinterpreting me – which, granted, is an easy thing to do online. Just to be clear, I certainly don’t think you’re antisemitic.
I simply meant that personal experience doesn’t necessarily convey the truth about the scope of some phenomenon. And of course you already knew that, but I wanted to put the actual numbers out there
Okay. Understood. Let’s move on. We’re on the same side.
This post addresses many of the observations raised here.
FWIW, I’m not getting paid to link Jeff’s posts, I just really enjoy reading them.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/clowns-and-civil-wars-wednesday-may
?? CLOWNS AND CIVIL WARS ? Wednesday, May 24, 2026 ? C&C NEWS ?
“A pack of inexperienced communists just stole a state senate seat and two House seats from Democrats in New York, and the media claims some kind of progressive victory. But it was a blue disaster.”
Jeff Childers
The folks at Red State amplify different facets of the situation, but don’t shed a lot more light on the subject, other than gloating over the beating that the Democrat “establishment” is getting from their “populist” fringe (the outright socialists).
Somewhat parallel to the shellacking that the Republican establishment got from the MAGA populists.
“Populist” is political jargon for “people the voters prefer who aren’t in our club.”
The ? represent emoji-style graphics that didn’t make the transfer. Jeff uses a lot of them.
Related:
An “interesting” development from the “Gooder n’ Harder” Department…
“…Former L.A. Fire Chief Sues Mayor Karen Bass, and Sparks Are Already Flying.”—
https://instapundit.com/805993/
On the topic of “How to Effectively Destroy the City You Govern”, Karen [Large-Mouth] Bass is in a prime position to give Madmani some excellent pointers, though it’s crystal clear that he really doesn’t need an iota of assistance…
Opening graf:
The biggest danger of the DSA types, and indeed the mainstream of the Democratic party now, is the willingness to change/break institutions. People will figure out that leftism is a disaster, eventually, but after all of the left’s “reforms,” it may not matter.
As to which demographic is most to blame, I think the answer is “yes, and.” But do not for a moment underestimate how radical the younger generations are. Socialist utopian ideas really do have a superficial beauty to those who lack the worldliness and adult experience to understand why they are so catastrophically incompatible with human nature. We used to inoculate kids to the siren song of socialism with faith, family, and a stable economy, but that inoculation is failing this generation.
And don’t underestimate the damage that the past 10+ years of Trump has done to the right among the younger generations. Kids follow the example of the adult leadership, including Trump. We can sit here and have high level discussions about what Trump meant or didn’t mean and dismiss “mean tweets,” and all that. I can tell you from experience, however, that the kids don’t see it that way. Many of the kids who are on the right are drinking deeply from the Trumpian lesson that edginess is a virtue. Take kids, whose brains haven’t fully developed anyway, and teach them to be edgy about matters of race, relations between the sexes, and every other sensitive topic you can think of. Then imagine the result. That’s what we have.
So if you are a late teen or young adult thinking about what your politics will be, you see one group of your peers who want to share things better, help people, and stop genocide. You see another group of your peers who throwing around the “N” word, talking about Mexicans being murderers and rapists, and otherwise being deliberately provocative. Which group would your 16-year-old self most want to associate with?
That’s the challenge. And I fear that the hour is much later than many of us realize.
New Yorkers:
Too stupid to be Zizians.
Too wimpy to convert to Islam.
They’ll just settle for Communism.
CC™-R always circles back to The Great Orange Whale, be it Quantum Mechanics, The Big Bang, or NHIs ( the Unicorn club). President Trump is always the underlying issue with CC™-R.
For all you bitter doubters out there, IT CAN BE DONE.
(Many of us remember with great fondness the Decent Conservatism presidency of Mitt Romney….)
+ Bonus:
‘“Brussels Is Ours!”: Migrant Influencers Boast as EU Denies Reality’—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/brussels-is-ours-migrant-influencers-boast-as-eu-denies-reality/