A civil war has erupted within the Democrat Party. This isn't merely an opinion but the growing consensus among Democrat insiders: it's the woke progressive wing versus the corporate establishment wing, with New York City as the battleground. Initially, it seemed the cultural Marxist progressive wing would dominate, but now even liberal Democrats are having second thoughts. This article delves into the turmoil within the Democrat Party and what it signifies for their future as a viable nationwide political party.
- Zohran Mamdani, once poised to win the New York mayoral race, faces backlash after fabricating a personal story related to 9/11.
- A schism is deepening within the Democrat Party, with Mamdani embodying the extreme left, causing concern among mainstream Democrats.
- The rise of economic populism and post-Americanism is challenging establishment politics, with Mamdani representing a break from the Democrat establishment.
Zohran Mamdani was expected to win the New York mayoral race in a landslide according to polls from the past few weeks. However, everything changed when Mamdani claimed that the real victims of 9/11 were New York’s Muslims, like his supposed aunt, who allegedly stopped using the subway due to harassment from bigoted New Yorkers. It soon emerged that Mamdani's only actual aunt, Masuma Mamdani, lived in Tanzania during the September 11, 2001 attacks—not in New York City. Mamdani attempted to backtrack, clarifying that the woman in question was a distant cousin of his father who also lived in Tanzania during 9/11. Caught in a lie, Mamdani accused his critics of Islamophobia. Andrew Cuomo, running as an Independent, called Mamdani a fraud during their last debate. Cuomo has described a "quiet civil war" within the Democratic Party between the extreme left, with Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani as flag bearers, and mainstream Democrats.
Recent polls support Cuomo's concerns. According to an NBC poll, two-thirds of Democrats now openly embrace socialism and progressive cultural Marxism. When asked about supporting democratic socialists versus moderate Democrats, 53 percent of Democrat voters preferred socialists, while only 33 percent supported moderates like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. The problem arises when only 26 percent of independents and 14 percent of Republicans share this view of socialism, creating a vast disconnect between what Democrats want and what America wants. This disparity represents an electoral death sentence for the Democrats, who are caught in an 80/20 doom loop by appealing to a minority of voters.
This issue is not theoretical; it's already happening, especially with the working class and Latinos. The white working class defected en masse from Hillary Clinton's Democrat Party because they found her platform lacking in representation for their concerns. In contrast, Trump's platform resonated with the working class by promising to protect American jobs and culture. This appeal extended to non-white working class voters in 2024, particularly Latino men, whom Trump won by 10 points.
The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Mamdani's once-commanding 20-point lead over Cuomo has shrunk to just 10 points. Among Hispanic voters, Cuomo has closed a 30-point gap to nearly even and now leads independents by 10 points. A Suffolk poll mirrors these findings, revealing that Mamdani’s lead has been halved in just the last week.
Mamdani’s support stems from two dynamics. The first is post-Americanism, which replaces left vs. right with American vs. post-American: those who love the nation versus those who don't. Mamdani, like Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson, is fully post-American, aspiring to build something different from the vision of the founding fathers. Establishment Democrats, like New York Governor Hochul and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, have endorsed Mamdani, but he has not reciprocated. This indicates a growing independence of the progressive wing from the establishment wing.
The second dynamic is the rise of economic populism, with Mamdani gaining support precisely because he is not part of the Democrat establishment. Both left and right-wing voters have lost confidence in the political establishment as a whole. Mamdani represents a post-Americanism that has broken free from the Democrat establishment and embraced a populist paradigm at odds with it.
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In Europe, the populist left ultimately loses to the populist right, as the latter combines economic populism with cultural conservatism, avoiding the pitfalls of anti-American wokeness. Thus, populism is the future, and it's crucial to ensure its anti-American manifestation is curtailed in New York.
What do you think? Will Mamdani pull this off?
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