Scenes from the hard left’s takeover of the – Latest News
The ultra-left’s conquest of the Democratic Party continues apace, as extremists overcome more centrist candidates in primaries throughout the nation.
The dynamic could also be most seen in Maine, the place Graham Platner drove old-line Dem Gov. Janet Mills out of the race earlier than the major even occurred.
Platner is as hard-left as they arrive: all out on gender extremism, pushing anti-Israel lunacy to the excessive (together with publicly cheering antisemitic conspiracy theorists) and screaming about the wealthy regardless of his own ultra-privileged background.
(And that’s to say nothing of his Nazi tattoo, or his weird non-political public posting historical past, with its paeans to masturbation and mockery of a soldier beneath fire).
A favourite of the Bernie Bros and online/podcast progressives, Platner massively out-raised Mills and shortly out-polled her.
The trend’s even more apparent in House races.
Witness the victory of Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania’s third District, the bluest in the nation, making him a lock to win in November.
Backed by AOC and her Squadmates Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the proud socialist gained a hotly fought major over also-progressive however less-rabid state Sen. Sharif Street and Dr. Ala Stanford.
What plainly put Rabb over the high was his bloodthirsty Israel-hate (which additionally gained him the endorsement of the vile Hasan Piker); he made selling the Gaza-genocide lie central to his marketing campaign.
Here in New York, “genocide”-obsessed Brad Lander appears poised to unseat Rep. Dan Goldman (B’klyn-Manhattan) in subsequent month’s Democratic major, whereas the DSA’s Claire Valdez is neck-and-neck with Brooklyn beep Antonio Reynoso, who’s endorsed by retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez; each hard-lefties have Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiastic assist.
California has seen outgoing Rep. Nancy Pelosi endorse megaleftist San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan for her safe-blue seat; Chan has promoted the Gaza-genocide lie and calls for punitive taxation of these evil billionaires.
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Already in the House is the Squad’s latest pal, Rep. Analilia Mejia, an AOC-endorsed Working Families Party veteran who triumphed as the most radical Dem in a New Jersey special-election major this spring, handily successful the common in April.
This Israel-basher now holds what was a suburban swing seat, which opened up after the moderate-identifying Mikie Sherrill turned governor.
A bit additional south, in Jersey’s safely Democratic twelfth District, the chief is Adam Hamawy — a man who buddied up with “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, non secular adviser to the bombers behind the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing. (And at the very least 11 of the 13 Dem candidates are anti-Israel.)
Taking the cake is intercourse therapist Maureen Galindo, who’s in a major runoff after ending first in the initial voting in Texas’s thirty fifth District.
Galindo has vowed to show ICE amenities into a “prison for American Zionists” — a bridge too far even for AOC, who blew up at Galindo on X . . . a safe-enough transfer since the different candidate, Johnny Garcia, is almost as far left.
In different phrases, from coast to coast, the Democratic Party is present process generational change — with its most radical, anti-American and anti-Israel components taking up.
The hard-left faction will quickly be gunning to interchange Rep. Hakeem Jeffries with one of their own as Dem chief in the House.
And if the celebration wins control of Congress, they’ll work to push by all the things from totally socialized drugs (“Medicare for All”) to abolishing ICE and slicing off all US ties to Israel.
What will it take for sane Democrats to win back control of their celebration?
