Last week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani rocked a crowd celebrating the victory of democratic socialist candidates over establishment — if liberal — Democratic Party candidates.
He declared that “We are showing that last June, a year ago tomorrow [his primary win], was not an anomaly. It was not the end. It was the beginning.”
But the beginning of what? A political party, still reeling from its 2024 losses, embracing radical extremism to expand its ranks? Or a bitterly divided Democratic Party, finding itself on the precipice of ideological, cultural and economic schism?
Not everyone is celebrating the primary wins of three extremist House congressional candidates bent on getting rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement if not all police and prisons, destroying the U.S.- Israel relationship and doing away with capitalism in America. This is the kind of ideology we expect from the political fringe.
Not even liberal New York City has gone this far … until now.
