|
Twenty years ago there was a sensible bipartisan consensus in Washington that Vermont’s U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was a Marxist crank. To its great discredit, the Democratic Party would go on to welcome Mr. Sanders as an influential voice even though he never formally joined the party and has a history of praising some of the world’s most murderous regimes. Next came a parade of Sanders-style “democratic socialists” seeking to take over the party of Truman and JFK. Now at long last a congressional Democrat is urging the liberty-loathing Sandernistas to go their separate way. Carl Campanile reports for the New York Post: Democratic Socialist of America members — including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — should leave the Democratic Party and create their own, Rep. Tom Suozzi said. “Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists should create their own party because I don’t want
that in my party,” Suozzi, a Democrat, said of the far left policies on CBS New York’s “The Point” show with Marcia Kramer that aired Sunday. Rep. Suozzi is on some kind of roll. In an early July op-ed for the Journal, he said that Mr. Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory “should serve as a loud wake-up call for the Democratic Party” and warned: Mr. Mamdani’s
campaign made lofty, utopian promises: free public transit, free college tuition, more public housing, sweeping debt cancellation and massive overhauls of systems far beyond his authority, all paid for by huge tax increases. The last thing New York and other blue jurisdictions need is higher taxes. People are already fleeing cities and states with sky-high taxes.
|
