This past Tuesday in some primaries especially in NY mainstream Dems were handed their butts….
New York’s primary night delivered a jolt to the Democratic establishment—and a boost to the city’s left flank, the New York Times reports. Brad Lander, a former city comptroller, unseated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a marquee House primary, attacking him from the left and zeroing in on his stance on Israel. In Brooklyn and Queens, state lawmaker Claire Valdez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso for the seat being vacated by longtime Rep. Nydia Velázquez. And in upper Manhattan and the Bronx, community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier beat incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the AP reports. That means New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept the primaries in which he logged endorsements: The Democratic Socialist backed Lander, Valdez, and Chevalier, using the primaries as a test of his growing influence and broader left-wing project.
More on the outcome from these primary wins from a blogger I follow, the Secular Jurist….
Democratic Party establishment rocked by socialist earthquake in New York
The old man of Dem strategists, Carville, is butt hurt that progressives are winning elections….
Longtime figure on the right Tucker Carlson no longer wants to be part of the Republican party because of how it’s changing. Now longtime figure on the left James Carville no longer wants to be part of the Democratic party for the same reason. On the podcast Politicon, Carville said it’s time to openly consider splitting the party after three progressive candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won House primaries in solidly blue districts on Tuesday, reports Mediaite.
“Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you,” Carville said of union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, referencing her past comments that white people should not be in interracial relationships. “I’m sorry. I’m just not. And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism. I really do. Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no. We’re a coalition. We’re a big tent. And there’s just some s— I can’t be in the same tent with.” Avila Chevalier unseated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, while state Rep. Claire Valdez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and former New York City comptroller Brad Lander easily beat Rep. Dan Goldman.
“I’m done,” said Carville. “In not in that … political party.” He also referenced Israel, saying that he doesn’t want to be in a party “that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.” In a separate appearance on NewsNation, Carville suggested the progressives form their own party. “All of these people hate Democrats,” he said. “Why do you want to run as a Democrat? Start your own movement. If it’s such a powerful, sweeping movement that’s got momentum everywhere, then go ahead and be at the head of it. Don’t use the Democratic Party to advance it.”
First of all Carville was never on the Left he has always been a centrist, a big dollar Dem…..second the best thing that could happen to the Dems is he takes a bow and shuts the fuck up….and he has been in Israel’s pocket for decades…time for him to fade away.
It looks like the DNC needs to realize what is happening and adjust their focus……but will they?
You know the Right will be frothing at the mouth and will inevitably start their bullshit about socialists….personally I am glad to see some progressives getting into the fray with the DNC, a tired dinosaur that needs replacing.
Now if they can just keep up the pressure and win these damned elections.
BTW, DSA is not a socialists organization….makes good propaganda to say they are socialists but that would be a lie and we know the the Right has mastered lying.
Not to worry I will be explaining the DSA once again so people can keep up and try to dispel the misinformation from the Far Right slugs.
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No wonder I see headlines like ‘Democrats Embrace Socialism’ on X. I have to giggle every time right-wingers say that. They wouldn’t know actual socialism if it bit them on the bum.
My words exactly for years….I try to straighten them out but a closed mind is hard to crack. chuq
You’re exactly right, Tina. The members of the GOP who rant the loudest about socialism don’t have a clue as to what it actually is. Unfortunately neither does the average American
You’re right, unfortunately. I’m convinced that’s intentional. We’ve been conditioned to hate socialism for decades.
Thanks for the referral, Standing Wolf. 🙂
Typically Carville, eh? Even the slightest political outcome he doesn’t like elicits a torrent of repudiatory demonization and threats. Meanwhile, his currently estimated net worth of $10-12 million was gained by being a mouthpiece for plutocratic corporatism and for genocidal Zionism. And, HE wants to talk about morality and ethics? If that isn’t hypocritical, then nothing is. Hey James, don’t let the door slap your ass on the way out!
He has been a high dollar mouthpiece since Clinton…..and that is when the Dems finally went off the rails. chuq
there are huge problems with the democratic party as a whole, especially at the national level. Perhaps the biggest problem is that they aren’t really the Democratic Party any longer and haven’t been for decades. It was shifting more and more towards “conservatism” for some time but Clinton was the one who arguably put the final nail in the coffin, so to speak, and turned the Democratic Party into – oh, let’s call it the GOP Lite? The policies of the Republican Party from the 1970s would be considered dowright shockingly liberal in a lot of cases when compared to what the modern day mainstream Democrats are yammering about today.
GF I have been saying that we have a conserv party, Dems and a Far Right party, GOP….we have NO liberal thinking any longer. chuq
You’re absolutely right with that assumption.
One of the problems with the dems is they can’t seem to figure out exactly what the heck they are any more.
Exactly and the progressives have a definite idea and it is throwing the Dems for a loop. chuq
From over here, the success of those mprgressives sounds encouraging. But NYC isn’t the same as much of the rest of America, unfortunately.
Best wishes, Pete.
True…..and the progressives have finally got the young excited…..for now chuq