As a sign of the times, the upcoming primary race in the Greater Miami metro area is not the most encouraging. It won’t be a close race, but sometimes the mere entry of a certain type of candidate tells you where a not-insignificant number of people think the winds are blowing.

Jen Perelman is challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz for the Democratic nod in Florida’s 25th District. Perelman ran against Wasserman Schultz in 2020, losing to the veteran Democrat by about 45 points. Since then, she’s been retooling her campaign to take another shot.

The value of a primary challenger’s campaign is usually in seeing what they think their party faithful wants to hear. This time around, Perelman appears to believe her party’s voters want to hear a heap of Jewish self-flagellation.

A recent ad begins with somber music and the candidate holding up an old photo. “This is me, at 16 years old, in Israel, on a high-school trip, holding an assault rifle,” she narrates as if confessing her sins at a Stalinist show trial. “And this is the definition of indoctrination.”