The Democrat Revolution Is Eating Its Own

A gerontocracy runs the Democratic Party, so it is natural that the next generation of Democrats is eager to push the old guard out and bring in some fresh blood. 

The problem they have is that the next generation of Democrats is absolutely insane. 

Robert Garcia’s win fuels Democrats’ frustrated anti-seniority rebellion https://t.co/8GfJtirO3T

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Last year, it looked like the old guard still had some fight in them. For much of the year, Joe Biden remained the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, and AOC lost her bid to become the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. That loss was particularly galling to the younger set, as the winner was Congressman Gerry Connolly, who died of cancer a few months after his victory. 

What happened: What initially looked to be a tight four-way race to be the top Democrat on the House’s main investigative panel gave way to a rout for Garcia, a 47-year-old former mayor of Long Beach.

• He won a shock first-ballot victory in the Steering Committee, with 33 votes to 15 for Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), 8 for Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.) and 6 for Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).
• By Tuesday morning, Mfume, 76, and Crockett, 44, had dropped out and Garcia defeated Lynch, 70, in a vote of the full House Democratic caucus.
• A second-term member who also serves in Democratic leadership, Garcia will be Democrats’ least-tenured committee leader.

Between the lines: Garcia’s victory came after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the 35-year-old Democratic rising star, failed in her bid to become the panel’s ranking member last December.

Looking for new blood makes sense for obvious reasons. The old guard seem to have painted the party into a corner. Despite maximum effort to destroy Donald Trump, all they managed to do was hand him a victory that put him in charge of a unified government, with Republicans controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House. 

But is that really true? Only partly. Many of the issues that alienated ordinary Americans are ones that the older Democrats followed, not led on. Alphabet ideology is an obsession of the young and radical, and Biden’s Green New Deal was at least partly motivated by the younger Democrats’ obsession with climate change. 

On the latter, at least, the older Democrats could get on board easily enough–nearly a trillion dollars in tax dollars to spend made graft a lot easier. 

To be fair, it is a bit unfair to say that the Democratic Party revolution is eating its own. It has just come later there than with the Republicans, who turned on the establishment in 2015 when Donald Trump upended the ideological consensus that developed with the ascent of George W. Bush. 

While Trump’s victory was not a youth movement, it was driven by a sense among Republicans that their leadership was tired and leading them to a dead end. 

The big difference between the two movements to replace the old guard is that the Republicans moved closer to the ideological mainstream that was developing in America, leading to electoral success. Donald Trump literally hugged the American flag, and his slogan was “Make America Great Again.” 

The Democratic new guard burns the American flag and embraces a platform of decolonizing America and, in their eyes, upgrading its residents with an influx of Third World refugees and criminals. 

Trump wants to deport MS-13 and Tren de Aragua; the Democratic Party is determined to keep them here. 

It’s a bit of a contrast, and it’s hard to see how a new generation of Democrats is going to revitalize the party. 

• Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left’s lies, new legislation wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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