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For those unfamiliar with politics in the good old USA, it may be necessary to point out the difference between a primary and a general election. A general election is a cross party struggle, and a primary is an interior party struggle.
Democrat Party partisans in New York City are still celebrating
their victories in the New York City primary race, and they hope to extend
their forward momentum beyond New York. It has been rumored that socialist
squad leader Alexandria Cassio Cortez (AOC) has her eye on Chuck Schumer’s U.S.
Senate seat. AOC has yet to issue a categorical denial that Schumer may be the
next target of ambitious New York socialists and Schumer, for his part, has most
recently dressed himself up in the usual socialist rhetorical apparel. Hey
Schumer, Pelosi, Blumenthal – you’re next.
The same is true in Connecticut, where long-serving U.S. House
member John Larson finds himself under primary assault from young anti-establishment
Democrats. The forces arrayed against the aged Larson are wide in scope.
Luke Bronin was a successful mayor of Connecticut’s capital city,
Hartford, highly dependent on the Democrat dominated legislature for occasional
bailouts. The city is thought to be tax poor, a status that has not occasioned
reasonable budget cuts to align its spending with its tax resources. The
Democrat Party in Connecticut tends to treat budget cuts as electrified third
rails, even though it is common knowledge in the business world that you can
cut ten percent of anything without greatly disturbing the delicate balance of
economic forces. Political forces – most especially the state’s public employee
union heads – can be touchy about cuts or a momentary pause in Connecticut’s
largely automatic public employee spending increases.
Bronin, most state reporters and commentators would agree, is not
a fiery-eyed leftist. His campaign against Larson thus far has been polite and
rational. Bronin is no New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The political
gravitational pull of Mamdani is illustrated by the recent primary victories of
two Mamdani endorsed candidates: Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier.
This is an intra-political struggle among Democrat Party primary socialists.
The Washington Examiner correctly notes: “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.”
The intraparty battle in New York City has replaced coy hidden
socialists with boisterous socialists whose primary (pun intended) intentions are written plainly
in Mamdani’s smiley face: to eradicate bashful, reticent socialism and replace
in general elections ancient liberal party adherents with young, energetic,
committed socialist/communist agitators born with knives in their brains and
ideological steel in their spines. The Mamdani wrecking crew has ambitions that
extend far beyond New York City.
The playground and testing ground for ardent socialists like
Mamdani is any large city or geographic area in the United States that has long
been dominated by Democrat single-party power politics. All of New England, New
York and California would seem to fit the bill. This revolutionary overthrow of
left of center liberal Democrat politicians such as, to mention one of many,
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York can only occur with the cowardly acquiescence
of the remaining aged liberals the socialists hope to displace.
“Espaillat and Goldman,” the Washington Examiner points out,
“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.”
Connecticut is not yet New York but, together with other New
England states, “The Land of Steady Habits,” now a Democrat Party monolith, has
been moving left for several decades, and the endpoint of the journey leftward
appears to be the socialist/communist construct in New York City and other
places in Democrat Party dominated blue states whose center-left Democrat politicians
are especially vulnerable in Democrat Party primaries, the proving grounds of progressive/communist
true believers such as Mamdani. By nurturing rather than denouncing far left
destructive ideologies, so called “moderate” Democrats have been raising foxes
in the bosom of their own party.
The left-most candidate for governor in Connecticut is Josh
Elliot, a District 88 State House of Representative member of the Democrat
Party since 2016. He is said to be a shrewd and vigorous campaigner who may
make a respectable showing in his primary against sitting Governor Ned Lamont –
or not.
No one has yet asked Elliot the all-important question: Do you
plan to join the demolition efforts of radical socialist New York leftists by
changing the ideological makeup of primary challengers from the liberal
orientation of, say, former President John Kennedy to that of Zorhan Mamdani,
Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier?
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