Michael Goodwin: Sen. Warren backing Mamdani is the latest example of Dems floundering and their zany agenda

More than six months into Donald Trump’s highly consequential second term, Democrats are still looking for their sputtering resistance movement to deliver some big victories.Instead, they’ve suffered repeated failures and are responding with an increasingly angry radicalism that has zero appeal to the hearts and minds of most voters.A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that a mere 33% of national respondents hold a favorable view of Dems, which the Journal called the party’s lowest point in its polls over three decades.It also found that a stunning 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the party.Those dismal results are the fruit of a run of bad candidates —think Kamala Harris and Tim Walz — and a scatter-shot strategy that consistently defies common sense and traditional American middle-class values.The impression is that party leaders and high-profile advocates are lurching from one temper tantrum about Trump to another, each delivered with the desperation of a Hail Mary pass.They seem more concerned about the welfare of illegal immigrants, including gang-bangers, than about the physical safety and financial security of innocent, tax-paying Americans.Comes now the latest example of their zany agenda, this one courtesy of Massachusetts Sen.

Elizabeth Warren.In a few brief remarks Monday, she managed to prove that the passing years have not dimmed her gift for poor judgment and terrible ideas.Her new brainstorm threatens to become another major headache for her party.Appearing in Gotham with socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Warren declared that “New York City is the place to start the conversation for Democrats on how affordability is the central issue, the central reason to be a Democrat, and that delivering on it in meaningful, tangible ways that will touch working families is why we’re here.”It’s a pretty strange thing to say given that it was almost exclusively Democratic mayors, governors and lawmakers that created the affo...