Look, it makes sense to be concerned that the progressives who are trying to run a coup on the Democrat Party are now openly calling themselves “socialists,” but don’t forget that we have an advantage. They are morally bankrupt nincompoops who have been beaten by the establishment like the rented mules they are. Do progressive Democrats have any self-respect at all? It’s a legitimate question. The Democrat establishment, those ancient, corrupt, sleazeball party hacks, keep humiliating the eager Leftists, and they keep taking it. Their repeating the mantra “Vote blue, no matter who” is like slapping a “Kick Me” sign on their collective collectivist back.

The Leftists are not harmless, but they are also not unstoppable. Sure, the socialists have grabbed a few urban seats in deep blue areas, in each case trading one long- established geriatric communist for a slightly more Palestinian-focused, but much younger, kind of communist, but that is just playing around the margins. That’s all the establishment has allowed them to do. Graham Platner was going to be their coming-out candidate in not-deep blue redoubts. Now, the bosses have shived him, and the poor progressives are just going to have to take it.

I’d be embarrassed for them if I wasn’t so busy laughing at them.

Who are “them” anyway? You need to understand the socialist insurgency in the Democrat Party as less about ideology than about raw power. Right now, the power is held by elderly mandarins like Nancy Pelosi who have been around forever—ancient boomers who kept their jobs and froze out Gen X. They’d like to freeze out the millennials too, but they’re getting old, and when you get old, you get tired, and people get tired of you. So, the establishment is perceived as vulnerable. It’s not enough to start an insurgency saying, “Hey, it’s our turn.” You must have something else, and what they have is socialism. They present that ideology, and themselves as its standard bearers, as the answer to the failures of the Democratic establishment and the frustrations with it that have grown over the decades. If you look at the politics, the old Democrats being traded out in New York City, Los Angeles, and Colorado are not that different from those replacing them. Hell, Karen Bass in Los Angeles went to Cuba to get trained by Castro’s secret police. The establishment is........

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