"This is a party that is jumping off a cliff, and I don’t intend to jump with them."That was Julian Epstein, long-time Democrat apparatchik, talking recently about his party.He said in a post on X, "I think the Democrats have gone off the deep end… the lunatics are in charge of the asylum."Epstein, who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and worked to elect Hillary Clinton, is disgusted with his party for having "gone too far left" and having "lost its moral center".
He announced in an op-ed in the New York Post that he is supporting Mike Rogers, the Republican running for the senate in Michigan against progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed, because Rogers is a "very practical middle-of-the-road normie guy who would’ve been very consistent with where the Democrats were during the Clinton administration."DEM ATTORNEY BACKS GOP HOPEFUL IN MICHIGAN RACE AGAINST EL-SAYED, 'JUMPING SHIP' FROM HIS PARTY'S 'LUNATICS'Good for Epstein.He says in his broadside that his announcement isn’t about him, but rather an indication of where a lot of Democrats may end up.
He declared, "There’s no room in the [Democrat] tent for people who want to destroy our constitution, there’s no room in the tent for people who want to align themselves with radical Islam, there’s no room in the tent for people who align themselves with antisemitism…"Good for Epstein.My only question is what took him so long? And… where are his Democrat colleagues?The answer to the first question is simple.
The Socialist surge, and more specifically the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America, is fairly recent.Yes, the progressive "Squad" has been a noisy far-left cohort in Congress for several years, and heaven knows Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democratic Socialist, has been spouting the exact same "tax the rich" dogma for decades.But Democrats’ growing engagement with the progressive Left gained warp speed with the campaign of Zohran Mamdani, who was elected m...