For decades, an evergreen media storyline has been that the next election will resolve the civil war between the center and far-left factions of the Democratic Party.
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election → resolve → Party
The thumb-sucking chatter continues even as the victor of the current round is obvious.
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victor → suck → round
Before all midterm votes are cast and counted, we have a clear winner — it’s the far left, because once again the center didn’t hold.
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center → cast → winner
As is their habit, relatively moderate Dems folded without much of a fight, and so the radicals did not need to seize every slot to win the internal struggle.
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radicals → fold → struggle
All they had to do was have a relative few fresh-faced hard-liners stake out positions beyond the pale, make a lot of noise and enjoy the ride as the media dubbed them the table setters of the future.
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media → have → future
Some of the old guard leadership briefly resisted, but to little avail.
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Some → resist → avail
Their capitulation illustrates why moderate Dems are getting dumped into the dustbins of history as the radicals gobble up more ground each election cycle.
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radicals → illustrate → ground
They all hate Israel, want exorbitant taxes, favor coddling criminals, opening the borders and swelling the size and reach of government while imposing restrictions on individual liberty.
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They → hate → liberty
‘Party consensus’
As New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani summed up the Socialist vision in his January inaugural address, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
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We → sum → collectivism
Shortly after that, 20 homeless New Yorkers froze to death on Gotham’s streets during a harsh winter.
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Yorkers → freeze → winter
Widely admired for her ruthless ability to herd cats on key legislation, she heads back to California with hopes Dems win both chambers this week.
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Dems → admire → chambers
But on a podcast, she added a wrinkle.
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she → add → wrinkle
As The New York Times reported her comments, she insisted that those on the far left who are attacking Israel “don’t represent the consensus of the party” as it seeks congressional control.
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it → report → control
She cited Mamdani and Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and said those who do not support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state are not just “concerning — it’s wrong.”
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it → cite → state
I certainly agree with her on that, but she then veered deep into the partisan mindset by saying the virulent positions on Israel do not stop her from wanting the radicals to win.
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radicals → agree → her
“This new person in Michigan, we’ll see if he gets elected to the Congress,” she said about El-Sayed.
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she → see → Sayed
“But the mayor, bless his heart, I hope he succeeds as mayor.
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he → bless → mayor
But I don’t agree with some of the things he has said.”
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he → agree → things
She justified her support by hiding behind the fig leaf claim that neither man represents the majority of the party.
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man → justify → party
In effect, she’s willing to swallow their antisemitism because their victories would give Dems more power.
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victories → ’ → power
“We have to win big, so that doesn’t really matter,” she added about their positions on Israel.
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she → have → Israel
Antisemitism and a history of supporting Islamist terrorists are no big deal when you have an election to win and a government to control.
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you → support → election
Pelosi first crossed that bridge during her last years as speaker when radical Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush openly espoused their hate for Israel, police and anyone who dared to vote for Donald Trump.
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who → cross → Trump
‘Big tentism’
Pelosi didn’t ex-communicate them or even publicly draw a line.
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Pelosi → ex → line
Instead, she welcomed them and eagerly sought their support on other issues.
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she → welcome → issues
El-Sayed criticized him relentlessly and, as The Post reports, spoke and campaigned at Michigan mosques where speakers called for the end of the Zionist state and the death of Jews.
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speakers → criticize → Jews
Although Schumer had endorsed El-Sayed’s primary opponent, he quickly joined the parade when El-Sayed captured the nomination.
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Sayed → endorse → nomination
Despite the fact that Schumer, the highest elected Jewish official in American history, long portrayed himself as the guardian of Israel, he glibly justified his support for El-Sayed.
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he → elect → Sayed
Asked about his conversion, he said Dems must be “a big tent party,” and advocated “big tentism” because “it’s how you build a majority.”
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you → ask → majority
That attitude apparently extends to Hasan Piker, El-Sayed’s America-hating buddy and Twitch streamer.
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attitude → extend → Piker
He doesn’t even like his friend’s campaign workers trying to drum up support in heavily Jewish Michigan neighborhoods.
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workers → like → neighborhoods
“This has got to be the wildest door-knocking operation of all time,” Piker said.
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Piker → get → time
“Trying to get perhaps the most Zionist district in the country, well, not the most, but one of the more Zionist wealthy districts in the country to vote for a Muslim anti-Zionist.
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district → try → Zionist
He also called it the “equivalent of going to that Klan KKK neighborhood for a black candidate who’s running to abolish anti-miscegenation laws.”
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who → call → laws
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul illustrates another example of the corrupting influence of ambition.
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Hochul → illustrate → ambition
Years ago, Hochul was a conservative-leaning upstate official as her party swung left.
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party → lean → ?
Those credentials led Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make her his running mate in 2014 and 2018, when he wanted a boost from the right.
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he → lead → right
Her victory was a nail-biter, and she seemingly concluded there was no future in moderation as most of the party followed the left-ward anti-Trump lurch.
Opportunistic
Capturing the spirit of Tammany Hall boss George Washington Plunkitt, who said a century ago that “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em,” Hochul saw which way the wind was blowing and joined the parade.
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wind → conclude → parade
Her ambition spiked at an opportunistic time.
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ambition → spike → time
Last year, Mamdani’s social media skills propelled him to victory as the Pied Piper of a new generation of leftist voters.
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skills → propel → voters
…and 9 more, not listed.
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