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By Sasha Stone. Media: Nypost
Zohran Mamdani’s primary win marks the end of the Democratic Party as we once knew it.
Truth is, it was already dead.
Democrats spent 10 years going to war on Donald Trump while also using him to scare their voters to the polls with endless crises.
With the media behind them, they didn’t have to offer the people much of anything — they would vote blue no matter who, as long as Trump was on the other side.
Now, as Trump rounds the bases of an extraordinary couple of weeks, with major wins at home and abroad, it should be starting to sink in that the Democrats have lost this war.
Trump defeated them in the courts, on the border, in schools and in the minds and hearts of Americans.
But Trump didn’t destroy the Democratic Party. They did it all on their own by never offering voters something better, or anything at all but Trump hate.
No apology
Mamdani stood apart by doing the unthinkable: He ran as an unapologetic Democratic socialist.
He seemed to arrive almost magically to sell Gen Z the dream. A showbiz nepo baby and former rapper, he was a whole lotta charisma waiting for his ticket to ride.
Has the Democratic Party found its new leader?
It’s not really his policies that brought him victory so much as his revolutionary spirit — he’s the living embodiment of the summer of 2020.
The demographic he appeals to might herald a real revolution, considering it’s the same one that backed Barack Obama in 2008: upper-middle-class white college kids.
Like Obama, Mamdani is cut from their same cloth. He hung out with them. He went to college with them. He was indoctrinated alongside them.
He speaks their language. He knows their world. They’ll follow him anywhere.
Note the viral songs already hitting TikTok, where young women shake that groove thing as they chant his name.
Mamdani tapped into Indoctrination Nation, the Evergreen generation that believes America is a corrupt, “white supremacist” empire crippled by capitalism — but could you please hand me my iPhone so I can make a TikTok?
This generation came of age in a convenience culture that gave them everything they wanted when they wanted it — Uber, Netflix, abortion, DoorDash, Tinder, TikTok, ChatGPT.
Why can’t they have democratic socialism if they want it?
No more playing it safe
Because they don’t really know what it means, and they don’t care. This is a generation ready for the big moves, no more playing it safe.
The Democrats should have listened to David Hogg, a harbinger of things to come.
But Democrats old enough to know the history must be in a panic. They know why Hillary Clinton had to crush the Bernie Sanders movement like a bug.
Party elders recall the bad old days, when they were undone by the Eugene McCarthy faction of the party, perceived as too extreme for the silent majority. They remember the catastrophic loss of George McGovern.
They recall Jimmy Carter’s malaise and how Uncle Teddy Kennedy primaried him, ushering in 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Playing it safe worked, until it didn’t. Now they’ll have to play it bold with an army at the ready, the same army they funded and praised all through the summer of 2020 to tank Trump.
The Democratic Party has fallen, but not because it’s been overrun by Islamic extremism. Republicans who take that easy bait will only help make Mamdani an even bigger star.
No, it’s because of all of us, a generation of helicopter moms who coddled the American mind and raised our kids to be overly fragile. We’ve given them high self-esteem on the oppressor/oppressed Girl Boss scale. We’ve allowed them to believe not in hard work or long hours or merit, but that we should be ranked on our race or our gender identity.
Created a monster
What did we think that filling their heads with critical race and gender theory would do to their perceptions of themselves and their country? They’ve been raised to be intolerant, judgmental and totalitarian toward anyone who isn’t fully on board with their fundamentalism.
The Democrats will realize all too late what they helped build. They were only watching Trump and it’s cost them everything — even their own survival.
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