In New York City on Tuesday night, Democrats learned the hard way that hating President Donald Trump or being a power player in racial identity politics is no longer as important as embracing Islamist communism.
The two notable losses in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries were Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman, who both lost to candidates endorsed by New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Espaillat is a beneficiary of the racial politics hierarchy Democrats have built over the past two decades as the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, but was pushed out by the rich, white Democrats in his district who preferred his opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who wants to erase police, prisons, private property, and Israel from existence.
Goldman, meanwhile, cut his teeth as a top Trump hater in the Democratic caucus. Goldman was the lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment, has repeatedly called Trump a fascist dictator, and said that “he has to be eliminated.” His fervent anti-Trump positions earned him no goodwill among his Democratic base, leading him to be harassed for being a Jewish Democrat who doesn’t hate Israel and soundly defeated by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who has made himself a token in the movement as a Jewish Democrat who peddles falsehoods about the “genocide” in Gaza.
Espaillat and Goldman thought they had built themselves the credentials needed to last in the Democratic Party through racial politics and Trump-hatred, but they were wrong. Lander allied himself with Mamdani, while Avila Chevalier is a personification of the most insane left-wing opinions you could find in an elected official. They are both representatives of Mamdani’s movement, which whitewashes the acts of Islamic terrorists and promotes communist redistributionism.
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This is the trend in the wider Democratic Party, as evidenced in the senate races in Maine (with Graham Platner) and Michigan (with Abdul El-Sayed), but it is especially pronounced in New York City under Mamdani. The Democratic Socialists of America are taking over New York City while national Democrats still find themselves enamored with Mamdani’s phony joyful warrior act, thinking that his ability to excite rich, white Democrats in one of the most left-wing cities in the country will somehow translate to national political success.
The path forward in the Democratic Party, especially in New York City, is not about Trump hatred or even racial victimhood. The path to power for Democrats now resides in peddling Palestinian propaganda, hating America, and promoting communism at home and abroad. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat found that out the hard way, and they won’t be the last Democrats to do so.