It seems so long ago Joe Biden raised his hand and bold face lied to God and the entire nation that he would faithfully carry out the duty of defending the Constitution and Country from enemies both foreign and domestic. He did neither. His pack of rabid neo-marxist, racial identity adherence yelling "our democracy is in danger" placed in positions of power did not go unnoticed by anyone paying a least bit of attention.
For the last decade or so a cottage industry had been building around the demand for analysis demonstrating how the Republican Party had become too extreme. By the time Vox got around to the subject, the American electorate had delivered control of every seat of power in Washington to the GOP. For all the lectures about how Republican voters had supposedly sequestered themselves in self-radicalizing cloisters, the self-righteous left were just as disinclined to look at themselves in the mirror, intentional or not.
Democrat voters, fed a constant diet of how bad America is, are increasingly adopting a brand of extremism all their own. Some dem politicians seeking their party's nomination seem perfectly willing to tailor their policy preferences to their party’s ascendant minority of marxist extremists.
Bernie & AOC have devoted precious time on the campaign trail to stripping “socialism” of its stigma. Senator Lizzy advocates changes to the criminal code and make illegal entry into the country no more serious than spitting on the sidewalk. The dems socialist 2026 bench appears so committed to radical one-upmanship that they embracing policies that have the support of no constituency whatsoever, like making D.C. the nation’s 51st state, an idea that most everyone opposes regardless of ideology, party affiliation, or region.
Convinced just months ago they finally had the country just outside their grasp because of the incompetence of the present administration, even with the media carrying their feces, dems are now in pillow biting mode over the DNC being dead broke and marxist rabble they let fester in their midst, and privately said to be entertaining the possibility they may not make the large anticipated gains in coming mid-terms'.
The dems most visible problem right now is NYC Comrade Zohran Mamdani. The premise of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote maps cleanly onto politics and Mamdani's marxist makeover of NYC.
A person (or movement) becomes immersed in an idealized narrative, in Mamdani's case utopian blueprints with underlying islamo-marxism. Don Quixote's reality was windmills become giants, inns become castles, flocks of sheep become armies. In Comrade Mamdani and the New Left politics, the equivalents are institutions, opposing voters, economic data, or bureaucratic processes that get recoded as existential threats or pure evil.
Like Quixote, Mamdani charges forward with sincere conviction, often dragging along more pragmatic useful idiots (Sancho figures) who half-believe, half-enable, and sometimes exploit the quest. The results are soon to be a mix of farce, collateral damage, occasional unintended good, and eventual collision with unyielding facts.
Opponents are no longer fellow citizens with different preferences but caricatures (giants, enchanters, traitors). Symbolic victories or rhetorical purity are pursued even when they demonstrably worsen the concrete problems the movement claims to care about. Followers and institutions adapt to the fantasy rather than correct it, because the story confers status, solidarity, or power. Some quixotic campaigns expose real injustices that complacent realists prefer to ignore or just don't give a shit. Others simply multiply chaos while congratulating themselves on their purity.
Having grown up in Europe I have seen all this before. Mamdani is a fool on a fool's errand.
Whenever political discourse treats a preferred story as more authoritative than observed outcomes, the windmills are probably nearby.
And all y'all Rayssist!
