One of the ironies of following politics as closely as I do, and having so many politicos in my X feed, is that I sometimes get a distorted view of what’s actually happening in the real world.
It’s a classic “expert” problem: too much focus, too much filtered information, and too little contact with the less deeply involved is both a blessing and a curse. Even if you try to break your bubble, you don’t escape it. At best, you create a larger bubble with a bit more diversity.
So I can’t exactly say how much stock to put in a (micro?) trend I am seeing yet. We all know that a number of Democratic thought leaders have become friendly to MAGA in recent years, mostly over cultural issues and the dramatic shift to the left. Gays who oppose gender ideology have found a home among Republicans, for instance. It’s not nearly enough to swing elections, but it is a genuine, detectible trend that potentially signals a larger one to come.
With the rise of the antisemitic and communist left, I have started seeing occasional posts from Democrats—mostly older, traditional Democrats, unsurprisingly—who are shocked by the sharp leftward turn of their party and the rapid rise of vicious antisemitic sentiment.
The crowd at the victory party for the Democratic Socialists of America in the New York primaries was shouting “F*CK AIPAC”
It won’t be long until they start chanting “F*CK THE JEWS”
pic.twitter.com/7eHPVEwzpF— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) June 24, 2026
One or two candidates do not make a trend, but when rabidly hateful people keep popping up and sweeping to victory on platforms of anti-American, antisemitic, and explicitly communist platforms, it comes as a greater shock to them than it does to some of us who have seen the influencer class move in that direction. Those of us who pay attention to what is taught in schools and universities, and what the denizens of podcastistan say, could anticipate the rise of the DSA. Ordinary, traditional Democrats not so much.
The most obvious example that fits perfectly into this mold is John Fetterman, who has been calling out his party for a while now.
Democrat Senator John Fetterman:
“This has just become, really, it’s just been the dancing days of the dirtbag left, you know, with some of these candidates is outrageous. You have candidates, they abolish ICE. Abolish the police. Abolish the border.” pic.twitter.com/blJ1r0WCgb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 24, 2026
He hasn’t left his party—yet—but in a 51-49 Senate, with a Graham Platner or Abdul El-Sayed as the one vote that secures the Democratic Party majority, he certainly will become an Independent or Republican.
The Mayor’s dog whistles did not go unnoticed.
I’ll keep fighting like hell to protect America’s national security, regardless of who’s in the room.https://t.co/Cd0aQVSE4v
— Rep Josh Gottheimer (@RepJoshG) June 24, 2026
Other Democrats are deeply troubled by the antisemitic turn the party has taken, both out of principle or because they see what happens to a colleague like Dan Goldman or Adriano Espaillat and shudder to think that their party is no longer a place where they are wanted.
After 47 years as a Democrat, tonight I cast my last vote as a registered Democrat in NYC.
The @nycDSA is sweeping NYC congressional primaries tonight. The DSA has taken over what was left of the NYC Democratic Party.
Congratulations, kids. You too, Boy @NYCMayor. You won.
Now… pic.twitter.com/8fVSKdCXKy
— SCOOCH.NYC (@david_sivella) June 24, 2026
After 47 years as a Democrat, tonight I cast my last vote as a registered Democrat in NYC.
The @nycDSA is sweeping NYC congressional primaries tonight. The DSA has taken over what was left of the NYC Democratic Party.
Congratulations, kids. You too, Boy @NYCMayor. You won.
Now it’s time for the 82,203 Democrats (as of the latest count below) who cast ballots against DSA candidates in congressional districts 7, 10, and 13 to make some hard choices. Others, like me, who don’t live in those districts, have tough choices to make too.
The principle that one cannot negotiate with terrorists also applies to the DSA and the foreign influences in it, as @NydiaVelazquez @ReynosoBrooklyn and @EspaillatNY found out tonight.=
Forget the DSA’s new Democratic Party. The battle for America has begun. It’s time to take a side and stand for your country.
Political consultants are worried both that the party is going off the rails and that the longstanding political machine that has fed them has been hijacked. They both liked and profited from the status quo ante, and they are not attracted to the ideologues who have taken over their party.
Many are, yes, heartbroken. They don’t hate America because the system has been good to them and theirs, and they thought the minor grift they had was harmless. They understand that the new revolutionary politics is dangerous. Especially to them, of course.
Before converting to Islam, Darializa said she operates “within the black queer feminist lens” https://t.co/trLcwNZtBc pic.twitter.com/9jqsOelIVF
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 24, 2026
They were aware of the craziness out there, but thought it was fringe. You could argue they had more than adequate warning—hell, we warned them—but they thought we were alarmist and culture warriors.
Nope. The DSA is taking over, and the Islamists are winning. It will be interesting to see the ultimate clash between them if and when they win it all, but let’s hope we never have to experience it.
Seems like the people are choosing to cut the real anchors loose.
— Life Glutton (@LifeGlutton) June 24, 2026
Many establishment Democrats continue to believe (hope?) that these candidates are a flash in the pan, but that hope is in vain. A new generation of radicals has been spawned by the very institutions that the Organized Crime Democrats turned into lefty creation machines in the hope of churning out reliable Democratic Party voters, and they are realizing they went too far.
Scarborough has been crashing out all morning, insisting that the DSA takeover of the Democrat party isn’t really happening, because Democrats just elected “moderates” like Spanberger. (She’s not a moderate.)
Here, Donny Deutsch (correctly) points out that the Democrat party now… pic.twitter.com/z62XZKbsFm
— Ed Bradley 🇺🇸 (@Ed_Bradley) June 24, 2026
Scarborough has been crashing out all morning, insisting that the DSA takeover of the Democrat party isn’t really happening, because Democrats just elected “moderates” like Spanberger. (She’s not a moderate.)
Here, Donny Deutsch (correctly) points out that the Democrat party now has a branding problem for “going too far left” that will be used against them nationally.
Scarborough finally, reluctantly, admits the branding problem might be “challenging” for Democrats.
Enjoy the new direction of the party with which you’ve aligned yourself, Joe.
Enjoy it.
I simply have no way to judge how widespread the concern is, beyond the worry that the DSA presents a branding problem, among ordinary Democrats and the political class. It’s certainly there. It will be a problem with independents. But how many Democrats genuinely committed to the party are unwilling to go there?
…but he didn’t hate the Jews so the DSA-types challenged him.
Make no mistake the DSA is an antisemitic group. https://t.co/la6oT3GG52
— 🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾 (@sephius1999) June 24, 2026
When the most prominent Democrat endorsed by Mamdani, who won yesterday, famously said “F- Kamala Harris,” you know that the alienation of ordinary Dems is gonna happen eventually. But will that present a significant electoral obstacle for them?
Few people actually want a revolution. They like a lot of the rhetoric to soothe their consciences, but all they really want is a bigger piece of this pie.
One Democrat from a swing district tells CNN they’re having serious conversations with donors about leaving the Democratic Party next term over the rise of the “Mamdani wing” of the party. https://t.co/BIAvnuDugw
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) June 24, 2026
House Democrats are rightly panicking. They have had a good grift going, but few of them are ideologically committed to destroying the United States. They want to pillage it, and know that communist revolutionaries will kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.
One Democratic lawmaker sitting in a battleground district told CNN that they are so concerned about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America that they have recently begun having serious conversations with donors about leaving the party altogether.
If Democrats do flip the House, the number of democratic socialists in their ranks is still likely to be a small minority of the caucus. And Democrats remain confident they can still win the House in November.
The House Democratic caucus gathered for a private briefing by their party arm on Wednesday morning, where party leaders presented internal polling showing Trump underwater in key battlegrounds, according to two people familiar with the briefing. No one brought up the Mamdani-backed candidate wins.
But what, exactly, can they do about it? This is a monster they created, and they may not have the resilience to survive the wave of communists coming over the hill. Where can they go?
I hope so. But as a Republican who can only view Democratic Party dynamics from the outside, it is not easy to judge when you aren’t in the middle of the fray.
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