Swirling confetti, blaring ­music, loud cheering and excited applause are not the sort of things one expects to see at a funeral.

Yet there was an undeniable aura of excitement Friday as New York Democrats laid their party to rest. 

There were no mourners at the last rites in Syracuse, only several thousand giddy born-again socialists. 

The convention formalities were limited to perfunctory nominations of incumbents for statewide offices.

Despite some grumbling, there was never any doubt that Gov. Hochul, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Attorney General Letitia James would be on the fall ballot. 

The only real significance was that the party’s agenda now increasingly echoes that of the Democratic Socialists of America. 

The end of the Democratic Party as we know it comes as a shock, though not a surprise.

The signs of demise were impossible to ignore as the party bosses and many voters moved further and further left with each election. 

The arrival at this juncture recalls the great Hemingway line from “The Sun Also Rises.” 

Asked how he went bankrupt, a character responds, “gradually and then suddenly.” 

So it is with the embrace of socialism by New York Dems.

It was only a few short years ago that Hochul repeatedly flashed her upstate “moderate” roots as proof that she was no fan of the radical leftists who were making inroads in the party nationally and in Gotham. 

The sudden part has everything to do with the city’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who has in a flash become the pied piper of socialism and the dominant force in the party. 

He’s mayor, not governor, but he, more than Hochul, is setting the........

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