Look in the mirror, New York Democrats your misrule paved the DSAs way

“The chickens are coming home to roost,” one young Democratic operative ruefully told me Wednesday, as we surveyed the wreckage that remained after a raft of far-left House candidates won stunning primary-night victories.Indeed, Tuesday’s Democratic Socialist romp can’t be blamed on outside factors like inflation or Israel or the national party’s mad obsession with countering President Donald Trump’s every move.No, it’s the result of 15 years of New York Democrats’ single-party rule — and the monstrous ego of Andrew Cuomo. The former governor’s utterly narcissistic presidential ambitions launched New York down a progressive road to perdition. Starting with relatively mild policies like marriage equality, Cuomo made concession after concession to thwart leftist challengers — from authorizing “bail reforms” that released hordes of repeat offenders, to onerous climate laws that hiked utility bills, to anti-landlord measures that worsened the housing crisis.Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party developed sclerosis as establishment leaders grew lazy, fat, comfortable and corrupt. The stunning 2018 defeat of Queens powerbroker Rep.Joe Crowley by lefty ex-waitress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should have clued them in to the Democratic Socialists of America’s viral plot to remake Cuomo’s party.But they let it slide — and even now, Democrats are demonstrating an alarming capitulation to political extremism.A clueless Gov.

Kathy Hochul was in Erie County on primary day, too busy dedicating the Buffalo Bills’ new state-subsidized football stadium to campaign with her downstate allies and keep them from getting their butts kicked by her bestie, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his DSA.Her out-of-touch naivety is typical of what passes for the party’s leadership today.Hochul spent the past six months cozying up to Mamdani and using the state budget — and her taxing authority — to bail out his massive deficit spending.The Buffalo Gal is not a le...

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