I’m not saying we should celebrate or anything like that. After all, one Democrat beat another Democrat in a Democrat Primary in a Blue District in New York. This examination is not much different than two dog owners staring at a pile of crap, wondering whose dog left it (and who has to clean up after it).
And, of course, once you get them down to DC, it’s not all that different from our hallowed halls in New Hampshire’s state capital of Concord. It doesn’t matter how they run or whether they pretend to be moderate or not; the caucus does not tolerate dissent. You vote the way leadership says, or you may find you’re in need of a State Trooper or two to protect you from the bullies in your own party.
But it is news and worthy of note. Bartender turned congressman Sandy Cortez, who has been working hard to primary “moderate” Dems in Congress with Marxists, just hit a little speed bump. Her token mal member just got run out of office by a moderate Democrat. Jamaal ‘False Alarm’ Bowman got his pointy-headed hat handed to him by his constituents. They picked pro-Israel George Latimer. Centrist is the AP description, and while apt when compared to Latimer, it is far from anything approaching moderate.
With the victory, Latimer has ousted one of the most liberal voices in Congress and one of its most outspoken critics of Israel. Bowman has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians have died in military strikes.
Latimer, who got into the race at the urging of Jewish leaders and had heavy financial backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is a former state legislator who has served as Westchester County executive since 2018.
Translated: New York Jews who voted for Jamaal before wanted someone with all of the same political proclivities but who supports Israel instead of Hamas. And when you read this next part, he’s not talking about engagements with Republicans.
“We have to fight to make sure we don’t vilify each other and we remember that we’re all Americans, and our common future is bound together,” he told supporters at an event in White Plains.
He’s not serious unless he is asking Squadettes to dial back the commie rhetoric when going after other Democrats. That the Israel-Hamas thing, sorry, not Hama, Palestine, has divided a party that has pretended to care about Jews and Israel the way it pretends to care about women and minorities.
I’m not sure what has to happen for women and minorities to abandon the Democrats. I want to think that transwomen getting a higher spot on the victim class totem pole is a red flag. That the lousy economy and influx of alien invaders have prided back a few vote-blue scales from their eyes. That union workers impacted by Bidenomics won’t be able to pull the blue lever in November.
That we can take back a few dozen more house seats and get a majority in the US Senate.
Knowing, of course, that this could be meaningless, even if Trump does find a way to win and survive the left’s domestic terrorism and violence to get inaugurated. The Republican congress is no guarantee that an American First agenda will get anywhere. The best we can do might be to slow or stop the decline for a few years and continue to try and work at the state level.
DC is a lost cause unless we get very lucky, and I’m not inclined to wait on luck. States are the only way we have to save the Republic, but seeing one of Sandy’s Squaddies get the boot does make me smile.
