Democrats premature victory lap, old Leninism in a new suit and other commentary

Yes, “Democrats had a very good night on Tuesday,” argues Ruy Teixeira at The Free Press, but they shouldn’t use “a few good results in a few states as permission to memory-hole last year’s disastrous performance” and “why they lost so badly.” Tuesday’s wins are “no more than a down payment on fixing that problem.” In Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats benefited from “educated, engaged voters” and their over-presentation in “low turnout elections.” Dems continued to “do far better among college-educated voters than among working-class (non-college) voters.” Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York “showed the same kind of class gap,” as he “carried college-educated voters by 19 points while losing working-class voters to Cuomo by 5 points.” Democrats haven’t cracked the code to “rebuild their working-class support in a populist age.”“Mamdani’s win spoke to the deep failures of 21st-century American politics,” notes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi.Democratic Socialism’s rise portends “nothing good,” because “this version [of leftism] is even dumber” than its predecessors, having “remade itself” based on “a new intersectional theory of oppression that’s ridiculous, fantastical, grossly racist, and allows the old bourgeoisie to play leading roles.” Refugees from socialism see Zohran Mamdani as “an immediately recognizable type,” a representative of an “educated vanguard” who “teaches effortless insincerity as a necessary means to reaching power.” And “his apparently total disdain for American history seems to be a selling point for his fans,” who think “the Soviet Union is just misunderstood.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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