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As old-school lefty Bill Maher has repeatedly lamented, the Democrats have completely lost the plot. As Maher told sneering Wokeist Fareed Zakaria, “You can be healthy at any weight? And gender is always a social construct? And maybe we should give communism another try, and maybe we should get rid of capitalism, and the Border Patrol, and let’s tear down statues of Lincoln and get rid of the police… It’s not that I’ve gotten old. It’s that your ideas are stupid.”
Clearly, even a great many Democrat voters agree. In last week’s primaries in the Illinois Democratic congressional race, the far-left crazies who’ve been making the running in the Democrats for the last decade or so were resoundingly defeated. This is a humiliation for the party, and especially for the Islamo-socialist ‘squad’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib – as well as ‘Democratic Socialists’ like hoary old grifter Bernie Sanders, and Fauxcahontas herself, Elizabeth Warren – who’ve poured millions into running extreme-left candidates in congressional races across the country.
To really rub salt into the wound, the devastating loss, virtually a total collapse in support for the far-left, was delivered in one of the deepest-blue states in the US.
Yesterday, the state that launched Barack Obama’s presidency and created Chicago’s socialist decline went to the primary polls to nominate midterm candidates. As usual, progressives competed heavily for House and Senate seats, as well as in state legislative races. Most unusually, Axios reports, hard-left candidates appear to have lost every competitive race in which they contended, running campaigns that featured attacks on Israel as well as Hakeem Jeffries:
Axios calls Jeffries one of the big winners from last night's electoral wipeout of the hard Left, and with perhaps some justification. Jeffries has attempted to tamp down the most radical elements of the Squad and its allies on Capitol Hill, while still providing every bit of the Trump Derangement Syndrome it demands. (Jeffries has lately begun calling Donald Trump the “so-called president.”) A turn to the center would help Jeffries a bit in countering pressure for maximalism in confronting Trump, but we will have to see what happens with DHS funding to assess whether anyone’s learning a lesson yet.
Jeffries isn’t the only one who needs to learn this lesson. Ro Khanna tried to ride the Squad Train on Monday night, only to get entirely derailed on Tuesday.
The only candidate from this slate who won yesterday was Delia Ramirez, and only because she ran unopposed.
Rather than admit they screwed the pooch, as no leftist ever will, the squad tried to blame da Joos and their alleged ‘big money’. There’s only one problem with this anti-Semitic crap: the really big money was wasted by the squad. American Israel Public Affairs Committee-linked donors spent just $14 million, as compared to the nearly $50 million bankrolling far-left, anti-Israel candidates.
The simple, clearly unpalatable for the left, fact is that they’re just nearly completely out of touch with American voters.
The Squad Left has positioned itself firmly on the side of Hamas and Hezbollah, especially since the October 7 massacres that led to the conflicts that followed, including the present war with Iran. While the American public may be more skeptical of Israel since that point, it is not at all sympathetic to terror networks or the maximalist Palestinian cause.
Last month’s Harvard-Harris CAPS poll shows that the US still favors Israel in terms of favorability 41/33, while Iran scores a 13/62 on the same question, and Hamas gets a 12/59. Even among Democrats, support for Israel is nearly double that of Hamas (64/36), and only the youngest cohort of voters flips the other direction – and not by much (42/58). This survey took place before the launch of military operations against Iran, but at that point, support for ramping up sanctions on Tehran's regime had bipartisan support at 62/38.
The same trend applies to nearly every stupid idea so beloved by the woke left.
Deporting criminals? In favour, 75/25. Closing the border? A 67/33 divide. Sixty-two per cent of Americans want to block males from female sports and space, compared to 38 per cent on the side of the fetishist predators. Even on the issue that sent the left-media and the normiecons into unhinged meltdowns – reciprocal tariffs – slightly more Americans support the president than oppose.
This may explain why Jasmine Crockett suffered a surprising loss in the Texas Democrat primary for the US Senate race. Even Democrats may have begun to realize the risks of sticking with deeply unpopular positions and running solely on TDS and the Joooooos. James Talarico is not demonstrably more centrist, but at least he’s not a raving lunatic. Perhaps we have seen the Squad Left’s high-water mark in American politics.
Well, I hate to be Johnny Rain-Cloud, here, but if there’s one thing we know about the left, it’s that they never, ever, take ‘No’ for an answer. To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi: they’ll be back, and even crazier than before.
