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Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream

The Democratic Party did not merely drift left over the decades, as some still politely maintain. It was captured, body and soul, by its radical socialist wing—hijacked, thrown into the trunk, and driven straight off the cliff into the ideological abyss.

The old moderates are extinct, reduced to fossils of a bygone order that once valued pragmatism and compromise. The Blue Dogs have been buried in the backyard, their instincts for fiscal restraint and cultural common sense now dismissed as embarrassing relics. 

What was once safely relegated to the “extreme Left”—the province of campus radicals, fringe activists, and academic theorists—has become the party’s beating core, its driving force, its new normal. And they no longer even pretend otherwise.

New York City announces the transformation with theatrical boldness through socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Los Angeles presents its own spectacle: Mayor Karen Bass, long tied to far-left networks, now faces harder-left challengers like Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman, while scattered voices, including unlikely figures like Spencer Pratt, try to restore basic sanity. These coastal cities offer loud symptoms of the disease. But the shift runs deeper and more entrenched across California itself.

Nowhere does this quiet revolution reveal itself more poignantly than in the state’s 4th Congressional District—the storied Napa and Sonoma wine country. These rolling hills and fertile valleys once embodied productive California: generations of hard-working Americans, including Italian and French immigrants, who........

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