AN awful lot of nice, well-meaning men and women, many of them known to me personally, including friends and family members, decent and highly civilised individuals, will continue supporting and/or voting for candidates of the Democratic Party in local, statewide, federal and presidential elections until the cows come home. I sometimes wonder if such people are aware of what this truly dreadful, anti-American, Westernphobic, racist, misogynist, divisive and destructive political party actually stands for in 2025. They must be blind and deaf or suffering from an acutely severe case of denial.
There was a time when I too could have voted for a Democrat without compromising my conservative values and worldview, especially if the candidate was a person of integrity and worthy of my support. Had I been eligible to vote at the time, I would have been happy voting for men such as the late senators Joe Lieberman and Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, or the pro-life Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey Sr. (Yes, there was a time when it was possible to be both pro-life and Democrat. Good luck voicing your reservations about abortion on demand or late-term terminations in today’s Democratic Party. You will be shown short shrift.)
I’m also pretty sure my late father, a lifelong Tory, would have voted for the Democrat John F. Kennedy over the Republican Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election had he been domiciled in the United States, not just because the former shared my father’s Roman Catholicism and his Irish heritage, but because there was nothing about Kennedy, apart from his disordered private life, which was hidden at the time, that would have prevented a conservative from voting for him.
But today’s Democratic Party is not the party of yesteryear, it is no longer the party of Hubert Humphrey and JFK, and it’s not even the party of Bill Clinton. Since the election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008, it has changed almost beyond recognition. It is now the party of mono-maniacal cranks, defund-the-police fanatics, race hustlers, those who espouse divisive identity politics, people who refuse to define a woman as an adult human female, Israelophobes, and, at least according to James Carville, the Democrat political strategist who helped put Clinton in the White House, ‘too many preachy females’, by which he surely had in mind white, middle-class, college-educated, often privately schooled women who are often insulated from the dire consequences of the policies for which they invest so much emotional capital. I sometimes wonder if the path to civilisational hell is paved with such women.
It is also increasingly the party of Hollywood celebrities, the super-rich, and those who believe in net zero and open borders. Moreover, judging by some of their rhetoric, one could be forgiven for thinking that many Democrats are driven by their detestation of America. Indeed, before there was Trump Derangement Syndrome, there was America Derangement Syndrome. Who can forget Michelle Obama saying she had never in her life felt proud of America until her husband was elected president in 2008, or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo opining that ‘America was never that great’?
I could go on and on. Having been around academics for much of my professional life, and having taught history at several institutions of higher learning, I consider myself something of an expert when it comes to the rabid anti-Americanism of America’s educational and cultural elites. Speaking dismissively about the nation that has given them so much and has provided them with material comforts that are the envy of people around the world comes to them as easily as disparaging Trump or the ‘smelly Walmart shoppers and deplorables’ who support him. To a man or woman, such individuals, while complaining that the Democrats are not progressive or liberal enough, invariably vote for those very same Democrats, and will presumably do so in perpetuity.
As an example of how far to the left the Democrats have gone, I draw your attention to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who recently won the Democratic primary there.
An unapologetic socialist, Mamdani’s list of election pledges would not be out of place in your average Latin American communist dictatorship. If elected, he promises to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour; establish city-run grocery stores; allow free bus rides; freeze rents on all housing in the city; provide free universal childcare for kids aged six weeks to five years; eliminate tuition fees at public colleges; and establish a Department of Community Safety, designed to work with police to tackle the extraordinary levels of violent crime in America’s most populous city. He also promises to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in New York City, and to make the city ‘Trump Proof’, whatever the hell that means. Apparently, he won the primary due to the votes of people age 18-29, so-called Zoomers, many of whom hold favourable views of socialism and even communism, a fact that speaks volumes about the breathtakingly inadequate teaching of history and economics in the United States.
But one need not look to faraway New York to witness the rot to which a once-proud political party has succumbed. Here in Minnesota, I need look no further than the city of Minneapolis, a quarter of an hour’s drive from where I live. Even the ultra-progressive Minneapolis Star Tribune is expressing concerns about mayoral candidate Omar Fateh’s radical socialist agenda.
Like Mamdani, Fateh, a Somali-American and the first Muslim to win a seat in the Minnesota Senate, won his primary by beating out an establishment candidate – in the case of Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and in Fateh’s case the incumbent Minneapolis mayor, the supposedly moderate Jacob Frey, a man who ostentatiously wept while kneeling by and holding on to George Floyd’s coffin at the latter’s funeral.
Fateh articulates many of the same far-left views held by Mamdani. Indeed, the two men are already being compared, Fateh being dubbed ‘the Mamdani of Minneapolis’. But Fateh goes one step further than his New York counterpart by openly declaring that white Americans represent the greatest domestic threat to the United States. If he becomes the next Mayor of Minneapolis, which is by no means out of the question, race relations in a city I love will be set back decades.
Notwithstanding what I said above about being happy to vote for past Democrats, nothing, apart from having electrodes attached to sensitive parts of my body or having my wife kidnapped and held for ransom would convince me to vote for a man or woman running on the Democratic ticket in this third decade of the 21st century. Voting for a Democrat would be like voting against the nation that has given me so much and to which I owe a great debt of gratitude.
As a Republican, I should be happy that Democrats are pinning their hopes on the likes of Mamdani and Fateh, and the fact that New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that paragon of fiscal illiteracy and banality of expression, is the Democratic frontrunner for the 2028 presidential elections. The election of such people will help the election of conservatives beyond the great metropolitan conurbations of urban America. But the damage they do to the cities they run will do possibly irreparable harm to the America body politic and further divide an already horribly divided nation.
