Posted on 07/23/2026 1:27:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans will make even moderate opponents answer for the radical views of DSA candidates.
I have no objection to the Democrats’ nominating an oysterman for a Senate seat. When I led our party’s effort to recapture the House in 2006, we made a point of recruiting candidates with “authentic” broad-based appeal. But that strategy, which flipped 31 seats during my tenure, and claimed 21 more in 2008, was predicated on a substantive premise: We needed to allay voters’ worries that Democrats were weak on national defense and culturally out of touch, vulnerabilities born from previous elections. If we could do that, the door would open for us to make the campaign about the GOP’s corruption, which ranged from “The House That Tom DeLay Built” to Iraq war contracts.
Today, the “Bernie bros” and their fellow travelers in the Democratic Socialists of America seem intent on repudiating the proven success of that strategy. When the DSA attempts to turn safe Democratic states and districts a darker shade of blue, Democratic candidates in swing districts are put at a distinct disadvantage. In New York’s 13th Congressional District, a young socialist, Darializa Avila Chevalier, ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. She did it by winning over the district’s newly arrived urban professionals while losing the black and Hispanic voters she claimed to champion. Those marginalized communities, like most voters around the country, don’t have the same tastes as the gentrifying parts of Harlem and upper Manhattan.
What happens in the 13th District doesn’t stay in the 13th District. The midterm election this year should be about the Trump administration’s corruption, which makes Mr. DeLay look like a choirboy. But in the name of “authenticity,” the DSA and others are saddling the Democratic Party with nominees whose wildly unpopular positions...
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