The Democrats continue to eat their own. Establishment Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman has been unseated by a Mamdani backed socialist.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-dan-goldman-unseated-by-mamdani-backed-brad-lander/ar-AA26nGN6?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6a3b3c8e70564ac38e304588862be24e&ei=33This is reminiscent of AOC's surprise victory over 10 term Congressman Joe Crowley. That victory sent shock waves through the Democrat establishment and caused a major shift in the party's agenda. Most establishment Democrats were in safe seats but once they saw the biggest threat to their job security came from the far left of their own party, they lost their nerve. Most of them knew what the extreme socialists were pushing was nutty but they weren't going to risk their jobs by opposing them so to get along, they went along. That's why the Democrat Party embraced policies that would have been considered insane just ten years earlier. Open borders. Cashless bail. Men in women's locker rooms, bathrooms, and their athletic teams. Nothing was too crazy for the establishment to support. It didn't help Dan Goldman. He got primaried anyway.
The GOP faced a similar dilemma in 2022. They were expecting a red wave in the midterms. In the primaries, the far right candidates were winning most of the primaries against more moderate Republicans. As a result, they lost a few dozen congressional races that would have been very winnable had they run more moderate candidates. Pragmatism seems to have gone out the window in both parties. Electability seems far less important to primary voters than strict adherence to orthodoxy. The GOP has put the Texas Senate seat in play by dumping John Cornyn in favor of an unpopular candidate with a lot of baggage. This trend toward more extreme candidates should make the 2026 midterms very interesting.
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