The NYC Mayoral Race Shows the Democratic Party is Done with Moderates
It seems like yesterday that Andre Cuomo was giving daily press conferences on COVID, Donald Trump was president in his first term, and people throughout America were wearing masks.
A lot has changed in the last four years.
While the Democratic Party was already headed to the left, the decision to nominate former Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz cemented that move. Harris had one of the most progressive voting records in the Senator, and her decisions to choose Walz over moderates such as Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro show both where the party is now, and where the failing Democrats are headed. Even though there were reports that Democrats such as Obama preferred a more moderate candidate such as Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, the far-left clearly controls today’s failing Democratic party’s policies and politics.
The Biden administration did not even attempt to govern from the middle or make any serious outreach to Republicans. Instead, the failed former regime spent trillions, opened the border, and focused more on issues such as climate change than any topic most Americans care about. It played solely to the fringe elements of the Far Left which populate blue cities and largely can’t be found anywhere else.
This is why the outcome today in the New York City Democratic primary carries added importance.
Former mayor and “moderate,” at least relatively speaking, Cuomo conceded to Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who will win by a decisive margin despite not getting over 50 percent of the vote in a race with multiple candidates. The 33-year-old was supported by Bernie Sanders and AOC, and his far-left views conform with the socialist platform those radicals support. Mamdani focused his campaign on affordability, but his extreme view contrasted sharply with both moderates such as Cuomo, as well as the President that former mayor Eric Adams was working with on immigration issues in the city. Given that New York City has nearly 70 percent Democrats, Mamdani will also be favored now to win the general election in the Big Apple.
Cuomo obviously had ambitions beyond mayor, and the former governor’s political career is now likely over, with New York clearly looking to turn the page on both him and his moderate brand of politics.
When Eric Adams won the New York City mayoral race in 2021, he ran as a centrist focused on solving the city’s significant crime issue. Mamdani, a socialist, focused his campaign on affordability, and the far-left candidate unsurprisingly is determined to have the government play a bigger role.
New York City has been horrifically mismanaged for a long time, with crime and unaffordable housing being issues residents of the city have continued to deal with for a number of years. New York mayors have also had to spend billions on illegal immigrants, the sanctuary city policies of the left-wing leaders running the city have put an enormous burden on the backs of middle and low-income residents of the Big Apple.
Adams himself has admitted that cuts to education, law enforcement, and social services, were needed to subsidize illegal immigrants.
There is a reason why moderates have become irrelevant in today’s radical and lost Democratic party. The energy of the Democrats is coming from an increasingly far-left base that supports open borders, very high taxes on the wealthy, and massive spending on what these radicals refer to as climate change. This platform is completely out of touch with the needs and concerns of everyday Americans, and that fact is one of the main reasons why Trump and the Republicans scored major victories across the board in the 2024 election.
Today’s Democratic party represents nobody and nothing, the left is more concerned about illegal immigrants and Ukraine than their own citizens.
While Mamdani focused at length on the cost of living and overall affordability in New York City, this primary was a clear choice between the more moderate faction of Cuomo and the extreme views of the 33-year-old Democratic socialist. While New York is not the nation, the Democratic party has been trending to the far-left for well over a decade now, and the city has elected many moderate mayors in the past, including Adams as recently as 2021. The Democratic voters sent a clear message in this primary, these individuals want the Democrats to continue to move to the left, regardless of the political consequences.
Trump has a wide appeal to a number of demographic groups, which is why he won comfortably in 2024, but one of his biggest draws is that the 47th President is a firewall keeping the far-left from destroying America.
The results of the New York City Democratic primary will only strengthen his and the Republican’s position that the Democrats are both extreme and out of touch with most of the nation.
