DAVID MARCUS: Old-school Dems out as far left seizes control of New York

Tuesday night’s Democratic primary contests in New York City pitted Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s slate of socialist candidates against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ establishment picks, including two incumbents. It was a massacre, with all three of Jeffries’ pals left eating dirt.

These three wins for the far left represent a sea change in the Democratic Party that is starting to look a lot like President Donald Trump’s takeover of the GOP a decade ago, one that left most of the Republican establishment shocked and defeated.

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., stands outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital.)

In a nutshell, what we see in New York and across the country is a battle between old school, native, often Black or Hispanic Democrats and a new anti-capitalist, immigrant driven party, heavily invested in increasing Muslim political power, and demonizing Israel.

It is no accident, for example, that Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y. (but not for long), was ousted by far-leftist Brad Lander. Both are Jewish, but while Goldman supports Israel’s right to exist, Lander says whatever his Islamist masters tell him to.

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Meanwhile, podcaster and Cuba tourist Hasan Piker gleefully issued a warning Tuesday night to pro-Israel New York Rep. Richie Torres, who won his Democratic primary: “I’ll see you in 2 years, motherf—-r, I’m coming for you Ritchie,” Piker ranted.

There are no better avatars for the battle over America’s oldest political party than Jeffries and Mamdani. The former is a classic machine Democrat, the latter a charismatic upstart, and it is perfectly clear who is in the ascendency. As Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., put it in his prediction on Tuesday: “The dirtbag left is surging,”

Hasan Piker speaks with an interviewer while attending an anti-ICE protest in New Jersey. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)

As usual, Fetterman is on an island. Most moderate Democrats are desperate to appease the communist electoral bitzkrieg in the hopes of being spared by it.

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Here is what Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who has the moral fortitude of a turnstile, had to say Tuesday night: “I don’t know man, who is ‘the Democratic Party’ if it’s not the voters?… and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.”

Far out, dude.

This is precisely why the fight between the Democratic Socialists and the traditional Democrats has been so asymmetrical. Mamdani and his acolytes say people like Murphy and Jeffries are weak and need to be replaced, even call them monsters, while Murphy nods along, agreeing that communism must be embraced.

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The socialists don’t even need to fight the establishment anymore at this point, because the establishment has surrendered to them.

Further, what Tuesday’s results showed was that either through atrophy or incompetence, the once-vaunted Democratic political machine that Jeffries controls has just wasted away. Even public sector unions, once his bread and butter are leaking to the left.

The upshot is that, just as in last year’s New York mayoral race, a coalition of guilt-ridden, college-educated White voters and immigrants looking for government handouts have utterly eroded traditional Black and Hispanic political power.

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Between now and the midterms, you will hear pundit after pundit on both sides smile and say, “Well, socialism does okay in blue cities, but good luck beating Republicans in competitive districts.” But the socialists don’t want to beat Republicans electorally, they want Republicans in re-education camps. The people they want to beat are the Democrats.

Well over a decade ago, lefties like George Soros realized that down-ballot races, such as for district attorney, are low-hanging fruit in big cities. The next thing you knew, the cities all had far-left prosecutors, then city council members and now mayors.

 Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to a reporter as he arrives in the U.S. Capitol for a vote on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

You look at guys like Goldman and think, ‘You brought these people into the country, you propped them up and now you’re surprised that they ate you alive?’ There’s no place left for an old-school liberal, and the younger “enlightened” ones who thought they could have it both ways brought it on themselves.

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Now, progressive politicians like Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are trying to build a bridge between the Marxists and the establishment. Not only is this an obvious Trojan horse effort, but Khanna and AOC may find that after communists cross bridges, they tend to burn them.

At this point, it seems that the only way the Democrats can get out of this nosedive into communism is through a compelling 2028 candidate for president with the courage to attack it head on.

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The only Democrat left who meets that description is Fetterman, and frankly, every Marxist win makes the case for him to run stronger and stronger.

For now, the rise of the new communist left in the Democratic Party is all but complete, and our country will never be the same.

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