Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
For Nancy Pelosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New York’s 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night.
All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pelosi and become speaker of the House.
The No. 4 House Democrat, Crowley, 56, had not faced primary opposition since 2004. He outspent his opponent, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was tending bar a year ago, by 10 to one.
The son of an Irish immigrant, Crowley was leader of the Queens Democratic Club. He had the unions’ support. So confident was he that he skipped a debate and sent a Latina politician to stand in for him.
First comes Hubris, the god of arrogance. Then comes Nemesis, the goddess of retribution.
Tossing Crowley’s credentials back in his face, Ocasio-Cortez ran as a Latina, a person of color, a millennial and militant socialist who lived in her district, and painted Crowley as a white male with lots of PAC money who had moved to D.C. and sent his kids to school in Virginia.
“The Democratic Party takes working-class communities for granted; they take people of color for granted,” railed Ocasio-Cortez. The party assumes “that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping (their) proposals are.”
“Bland or half-stepping” are not words her agenda calls to mind.
A Democratic Socialist, endorsed by MoveOn, Black Lives Matter and People for Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez favors Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage, 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, free tuition at public colleges, federal jobs for all who want them, and abolishing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that runs “black sites” on the Mexican border where “human rights abuses are happening.”
When tear gas was used in Puerto Rico, whence her family came, Ocasio-Cortez laid it at Crowley’s feet: “You are responsible for this.”
Crowley tried gamely to keep up, declaring that ICE, for which thousands of Americans work to protect our borders, is a “fascist” organization, presumably something like Ernst Rohm’s Brown Shirts.
While the victory of Ocasio-Cortez is bad news for Pelosi and Hoyer, it may also be a harbinger of what is to come. For the Democratic Party appears about to unleash its radical left, its Maxine Waters wing, and give its ideology another run in the yard.
When the party has done this before, however, it did not end well.
After Hubert Humphrey lost narrowly in 1968, an enraged left seized the nomination for George McGovern, who went on to lose 49 states to Richard Nixon.
After Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the left, whose champion, Bernie Sanders, they believe, was robbed by the establishment, seems to be looking to settle scores and seize the nomination for one of its own.
But if an apertura a sinistra, an opening to the left, is what lies ahead for the Democratic Party, then that is better news for the party of Trump than for the party of Pelosi.
Just as Crowley’s congressional district had changed, so, too, has his party in Congress. Columnist Dana Milbank, who sees it as progress, writes, “A majority of House Democrats are … women, people of color or gay.”
These rising forces in the Democratic coalition are looking to bury the Democratic Party of yesterday, where white males and older ethnic groups — Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews — were dominant.
It seems certain now that the summer of 2020 will see a woman, a person of color, or both, on the Democratic ticket. Two whites would likely offend the rising base. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine may have been the last of the all-white Democratic tickets.
However, inside this emerging Democratic majority of peoples of color, fractures and fissures are already visible.
In New York City, the Asian community, which votes Democratic in presidential elections, is in an uproar over efforts by leftist Mayor Bill de Blasio to eliminate the entrance exams that have enabled Asian kids to capture most of the seats in the city’s elite public schools.
De Blasio and his allies want the Asian numbers in these select schools reduced, so the schools mirror the city’s demography, no matter how well the Asian kids are doing on the competitive admissions tests.
Also, the hard left in the Democratic Party, oriented more toward the Third World than the West, is increasingly anti-Israel. And while the Jewish vote is small and largely concentrated in blue states, among donors to the Democratic Party the Jewish contingent looms large.
The new demography of the Democratic Party brought about the defeat of Crowley. A majority white district when he first ran, the Bronx-Queens district he now represents is only one-sixth white.
The Irish and Italians have moved out or passed on. And Archie Bunker? He rests in peace in Calvary Cemetery. Like his party.
We are less than 2 years out from the next Presidential election cycle.
Who have they got?
There is zero chance of them taking the Presidency short of a revolution with that kind of lackadaisical approach. Whoever they were going to groom, they should have been well on their way to polishing up by now but there appears to be no one on deck.
And ‘bland’ is a dog whistle for White.
What’s good for the goose and all that jazz.
Hope it’s not Ellison. He might have a shot if he ran as leftists might equate him with Obama and “pine for the good old days” before Trump……
Someone could have a meteoric rise among the Dems–they are often very celebrity minded people so anyone with charisma, tonality with speaking and all the leftist bleeding heart talking points, could arise like a tornado in Kansas…
I think the Hillary and Biden days are gone for good…………
Remember Obama’s meteoric rise. He came out of nowhere. It can happen again.
Zuckerfag or Bezle-zeebop.
Yes there is. Kamala Harris, a woman of color possessing the perfect temperament. That’s not to say I think she could win, at least from today’s perspective.
It seems to Kamala, who was Willy Brown’s mistress, pulled a few too many trains at orgies attended by the Democrat leadership, and there are photos…http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/06/run-kamala-run.html#comment-form; http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/06/blind-item-8_29.html
This article is off base in the sense that this isn’t about ideology, it’s about identity politics. The district is 46% latino thanks to the democrats’ love of open borders. Look for a hispanic takeover of the Democrat party in the next few years…Asian had better wise up and start allying with the whites, unless they like being quota’d out of their jobs.
Note that this unknown millennial bartender won by a landslide, 58-42…All the ethnic voters had to know was her name.
They are a party without leaders. They are a party of people without accomplishment. They are party of losers. I can’t imagine President Trump being kind enough to point this out in the next campaign. Remember all this when the Blue Wave hits this fall. You really have to suck to make a Republican Congress critter look good.
STARFCKr,
I remember someone years ago saying the libtards are like ants…….with a bullhorn. The bullhorn is their media. When the general public here them so loudly it is because of a corrupt media. They are small in numbers but the great lie is they represent half of this nation. November 2017 will prove the great blue wave was like a ripple in a pond versus the vast oceans red tide…..mark my words….
Sarcasm Truther, sarcasm
“While the victory of Ocasio-Cortez is bad news for Pelosi and Hoyer, it may also be a harbinger of what is to come. For the Democratic Party appears about to unleash its radical left, its Maxine Waters wing, and give its ideology another run in the yard.
When the party has done this before, however, it did not end well.”
I enjoy Pat’s writing, but I think he missed something important.
1968 was a different time. That was then, this is now. According to polls, there are many more younger voters now who are leftists and crave the ideas of socialism. Back in ’68 the ideas tossed around now by lefties would make most peoples heads explode. Regrettably, I’m not so sure hardcore leftists don’t have a chance now.
Pat missed the elephant in the room–the election wasn’t about ideas. Hispanics vote for hispanics, dot Indians vote for dot Indians, Somalis vote for Somalis. Only white europeans are dumb enough not to vote for each other.
Actually the repo party is also screwed. Just ask george will and ben sasse. Good riddance.
Neither of whom is any kind of conservative, or concerned about turning the whites into a minority in their own country…good riddance to them. Trump can give all the neocons helicopter rides as far as I’m concerned.
The far left, the left, and the centric democrats are the ones fighting for illegal immigration and amnesty of these illegals. Only a matter of time before a Latina gets elected and changes the laws and these same libtards find themselves outnumbered in their own blue state. i assume they will be the ones trying to woo the patriotic American back to their state with welfare in hopes of regaining a populace that would vote a certain way. I guess I am just predicting the future election of 2040…….
FWIW, politics aside, this is another example of the big spender coming out the loser in spite of the money spent.
The same thing that happened when Hillary outspent Trump and lost.
Money doesn’t decide the outcome of elections in spite of popular belief, no matter how persuasively as it might be used. It’s the voters casting the votes that decide them.
Dude, what are you foing? Dont tell them. Its good when they lose to the very monster they are creating.
Greetings,
What you say is true now but wasn’t true that long ago. A politician without deep pockets had no way to market and brand. The internet changes this. Anyone can market to anyone. It is how Trump gained the White House.
Yeah Martin, let’s see them try to put that very ugly Genie back in the bottle. Look at what’s happening in Italy right now. AND Germany. Italy has the right idea, so far unspeakable here. Simply send them back. I think Trump is getting very close to verbalizing that exact same thing.
I think their nominee will be Kamala Harris. It can’t be anyone white. I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that she will win CA, NY, IL, DC and MA. Well maybe not Massachusetts.
Probably not, too many sex videos, and she is dumb as a post.
They are a party without music which is a mob. Chaos will ensue and then disbandment. A funeral fit for a donkey.
How befitting that the Democratic districts are voting for the people who turned them into cesspools. Is it far fetched to call the entire Democratic Party one great big foul smelling shithole?
Sort of a small version of Africa. Mind you, I truly wish black folks well, it’s just that they seem to work against their own best interests. And, yeah, I resent having to pay for their mistakes.
Appears as if racial division politics has come back to haunt the Democrats. It sucks to be them.
All the promises of free shit, who is gonna pay? Or do we print like the Germans did last century? And how did that turn out? Just asking. John
Perhaps before the country immolates itself, I suspect that national policies will be made that will result in many of the people who pushing for full-out Socialism having to make the biggest choice of their lives: You leave the country into permanent exile or You die here.
Anonymous wrote above “It’s the voters casting the votes that decide them.” I need to fix that statement for you: ‘It’s the ones counting the votes that decide them.’
Malba and western Whitestone has money but not very many votes. College Point demographics have changed, but the part of the Bronx in the 14th district is the same that it ever was for the past 50 years.
Di Blasio is a socialist, and doesn’t align with Crowley on much of anything. Vote rigging in NYC? Say it ain’t so!
probably true doc but it didn’t matter who counted the votes this time–did you see the margin of victory?
this was about one thing–identity politics–
Almost all the white people I encounter refuse to believe what is taking place right under their nose . Sometimes within their own family when a relitive breeds with a black or hispainic . Note breeds , rarely is there a loving family relationship and you end up with mixed race victimized children and a brainwashed used up white women with her life in a shambles . The sperm donors show up on occasion with hat in hand and we white people that have assisted in feeding and clothing the children are called racist for refusing to be tolerant of these miscreant low life POS !
The true racists are the ones supporting these miscreants taking over our society and handing the few working people in America the bill .
I remember arguing the lies and foolishness of the racist failed Obama administration and of course the name calling came out because the facts could not be disputed !
If you voted for Obama because he is black you are a racist fool . If you voted because you believe his desires are correct for our country , I believe you are wrong and a fool !