Pathetic: Top US Democrats don't even dare denounce Zohran Mamdani's extremism
Bereft of any principle, they're just desperate to stay politically afloat amid the far-left surge that's only grown more stormy since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities in Israel.
Asked about Mamdani's refusal to condemn the pro-terror slogan 'globalize the intifada,' Democratic National Committee chief Ken Martin squirmed, 'We're a big tent party.'
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'We have conservative Democrats, we have centrist Democrats, we have labor progressives like me and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftists, and we win by bringing people into that coalition,' he blathered.
Yes. A big tent of clowns, fools and Jew-haters.
Imagine a top Democrat insisting in 1965 that the party not reject Ku Klux Klaners because they're part of the coalition.
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Martin's bet, and that of all too many Democrats, is that welcoming antisemitic Israel-haters won't alienate too many reflexively liberal Jews.
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This has been coming since at least 2012, when leaders at the 2012 Democratic National Convention had to gavel down the clear floor majority against recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital — amid a crescendo of boos that surely had Harry Truman spinning in his grave.
The far-too-rare exceptions include New York's own Rep. Ritchie Torres and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who just ripped into Mamdani as 'not even a Democrat' while warning that Republicans will exploit his rise as a 'tent pole' to broaden their coalition.
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As Mamdani's fellow Democratic Socialists look to threaten primaries against even top House Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the silence of leading Jewish Dems — above all, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — is simply damning.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, as a wise man once warned, is for good men to say nothing.
And that seems to be the best most of the Democratic establishment can manage right now.
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