On Tuesday, DSA-aligned candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani swept three deep-blue House seats in New York City, knocking off two incumbents in the process. One of them chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Another served as lead counsel on the Democrat Party's partisan impeachment of President Trump. These weren't moderates losing to radicals. These were far-left Democrats losing to even further-left Democrats, and the media wants you to believe the losers were the reasonable ones.
Tuesday was hardly a one-off. Self-described communist Graham Platner forced Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's handpicked recruit, Gov. Janet Mills, out of the Maine race before a single vote was cast. That was despite a growing list of scandals, involving domestic abuse and racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments, and of course, the Nazi tattoo. The next battles are in Colorado, where Melat Kiros is challenging Rep. Diana DeGette, and in Michigan, where Bernie Sanders-backed Abdul El-Sayed is leading a three-way Senate primary.
According to Politico, "Centrist Democrats are freaking out about progressives’ winning streak."
Centrist Democrats? What centrist Democrats? I don't see any centrist Democrats, yet the article is full of references to them.
"Centrist Democrats, normie Democrats, need to realize we're the insurgents, and they're the new establishment,” Liam Kerr of the moderate-aligned WelcomePAC summed up the panic well, told Politico. “It's a long term structural problem more than it is any one particular win."
In Wisconsin, Missy Hughes dropped her gubernatorial bid to consolidate support against democratic socialist Francesca Hong, saying, "true leadership means stepping aside and making sure that we coalesce around someone who can win in November." Hong wasn't buying the electability argument, telling Politico, "The strategy of running moderates — we've lost the House, the Senate and the executive office… I would hope that the course correction is to run some different plays."
Here's the problem. None of this makes anyone left behind a centrist or a moderate.
Heck, it barely makes them a "normie." How many of these Democrats will vote against the transgender cult? Any of them?
Just checking.
And yet, that word keeps popping up. According to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), there's "centrist energy in Virginia, Iowa, and New Jersey.” I’m sorry, but there is no centrist energy in the Democrat Party. Candidates like Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill were dubbed “centrist” by the media, but there’s nothing centrist about them. They’re far-left radicals, and they’ve governed as such. Some outlets even call Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) a centrist because he supports Israel, is for strong borders, and didn’t even complain about the reflecting pool renovations. That doesn’t make him a centrist. He votes with his party 95% of the time.
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These Democrats aren't centrists. Some, like Fetterman, are occasionally reasonable on a handful of issues, or simply not antisemitic, and that's apparently enough to earn the label these days. Every incumbent who lost in New York City this week was a far-left Democrat, not a moderate, and losing to a socialist doesn't suddenly make you part of the middle.
The socialist surge doesn't prove that everyone else is a moderate Democrat. It proves the press got the perfect pretext for calling the same old far-left Democrats “centrists.” It makes me sick, and no one should fall for it.
