I’m not going to make too big a production out of this, because the headline does most of the work, but in the aftermath of Tuesday’s primary elections in a number of places and specifically in New York, where in more than a half-dozen congressional races a bunch of unemployable communist revolutionaries — rank pillagers if ever any existed — knocked off more establishment-type Democrat incumbent pols, it’s worth asking a question or two.
The Democrat Party isn’t quite where the Republicans were a decade ago. It used to be that you could make some equivalences between the two parties, as they were generally flip sides of each other around a political consensus in which the basic elements of the social contract were agreed on; there was a general understanding as to the social goods the public sector was charged with providing, and our national arguments were about how best to provide those social goods. Then, you could look at the state of one of the two parties and make analogies from various points in our political history.
But that doesn’t quite work, does it?
The outgoing leadership cadre in the Democrat Party has certainly run itself into the ground. There is little question in that. You can’t look at a single leader among the modern Democrat Party who offers new ideas or approaches or even differs with the orthodoxy in any real respect. Today’s go-to maverick among Democrats is John Fetterman, but that’s only because he’s willing to call out the “dirtbag Left” once in a while. Fetterman doesn’t even vote opposite the hardcore loons on the Democrat side, unless the subject is Israel.
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