The Democratic party we knew died the same way it lived with fear and hate
Zohran Mamdani’s primary win marks the end of the Democratic Party as we once knew it.Truth is, it was already dead.Democrats spent 10 years going to war on Donald Trump while also using him to scare their voters to the polls with endless crises.With the media behind them, they didn’t have to offer the people much of anything — they would vote blue no matter who, as long as Trump was on the other side.Now, as Trump rounds the bases of an extraordinary couple of weeks, with major wins at home and abroad, it should be starting to sink in that the Democrats have lost this war.Trump defeated them in the courts, on the border, in schools and in the minds and hearts of Americans.But Trump didn’t destroy the Democratic Party.They did it all on their own by never offering voters something better, or anything at all but Trump hate.Mamdani stood apart by doing the unthinkable: He ran as an unapologetic Democratic Socialist.He seemed to arrive almost magically to sell Gen Z the dream.
A showbiz nepo baby and former rapper, he was a whole lotta charisma waiting for his ticket to ride.Has the Democratic Party found its new leader?It’s not really his policies that brought him victory so much as his revolutionary spirit — he’s the living embodiment of the Summer of 2020.The demographic he appeals to might herald a real revolution, considering it’s the same one that backed Obama in 2008: upper-middle-class white college kids.Like Obama, Mamdani is cut from their same cloth.He hung out with them.
He went to college with them.He was indoctrinated alongside them.He speaks their language.
He knows their world.They’ll follow him anywhere.Note the viral songs already hitting TikTok, where young women shake that groove thing as they chant his name.Mamdani tapped into Indoctrination Nation, the Evergreen generation that believes America is a corrupt, “white supremacist” empire crippled by capitalism — but could you please hand me my iPhone so I can make a TikTok...