The Democratic Party just got hijacked — and party leaders stood by and watched.
Tuesday’s New York primaries weren’t just election results. They were a coming-out party for DINOs — Democrats In Name Only — and the establishment candidates they crushed didn’t see it coming.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed three jihadi socialists in congressional primaries. All three won. At their victory parties, crowds chanted at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “You’re next! You’re next! You’re next!”
They meant it.
“Our candidates run as Democrats … and when they are in the legislature, they are in the Democratic Party caucus, but we don’t agree with the way the Democratic Party establishment organizes or runs its party apparatus and so we try to build independence.”
That’s the co-chairman of New York’s Democratic Socialists of America explaining the takeover strategy. Use the Democratic Party label to neutralize charges of extremism. Win the primary. Take the seat. Then push hard left once inside.
Mamdani’s three winning candidates — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and Brad Lander — are declared socialists. Their platform: abolish police, prisons, borders, and all immigration control. Destroy the United States and Israel. Push for Palestinian statehood, jihad, and communism.
Traditional Democrats gave away their party by pretending socialists were “just a bit further to the left.” Now they’ve learned the hard way: a difference of degree eventually becomes a difference in kind.
Mamdani came out of nowhere last year. He’s already arguably the most powerful Democrat — or DINO — in the country. Jeffries? Schumer? Both have been running from the Left for years, terrified of getting outflanked by AOC or primaried by the DSA.
As an immigrant, Mamdani can’t run for president. But in 2028, his endorsement will be gold. All the momentum is with him. It’s nearly impossible to believe a sensible centrist like Rahm Emanuel could win the Democratic nomination.
Democrats have been appeasing socialists for so long they probably couldn’t fight them off even if they tried. That may help Republicans in the short term — it could crimp Democrat victories in November’s midterms and might make the Democratic presidential nominee unelectable in 2028.
But it’s profoundly bad news for America.
We have a two-party system. Eventually, voters tire of whoever is in power and choose the other side out of boredom and forgetfulness. It would be nice if the other side weren’t made up of revolutionary socialists who think “America is a disgrace.”
