MATT MARGOLIS: We Should Be Very Afraid of What’s Happening in the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is quietly undergoing a seismic shift that should alarm anyone who still values political sanity in America. The party is transitioning into something younger, even more extreme, radical, and dangerous than what we’ve already endured. The old guard may have been misguided, but what’s coming next promises to be far worse for America.
The latest casualty is none other than Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the Manhattan congressman who just announced his retirement after more than three decades of loyal service to the left’s cause. His exit is just one sign of a dangerous purge inside the party, replacing seasoned lawmakers with a new breed of radical agitators who openly reject America’s political traditions.
This isn’t youthful idealism; it’s a calculated assault on the foundations of our democracy, driven by socialists who see the system itself as illegitimate. What Democrats are dressing up as “change” is in reality a hostile takeover by extremists bent on tearing everything down and remaking the country in their own warped image. And if they succeed, the America that follows will be unrecognizable and far worse for it.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
I started to say that when Friedman said that, there were many more grownups in Washington. But Friedman apparently first uttered that quote in 1975 or thereabouts, shortly after furious Democrats and their media staged a coup d’état against Richard Nixon. Plus ça change.
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