Down in Bogotá, they are celebrating the latest conservative victory in Latin America. The obsessed-with-Trump media is saying that a Trump-backed political outsider beat the left. What a nasty way of speaking about millions of Colombians fed up with crime and the corrupt policies of President Petro.
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Over in New York City, the exact opposite seems to be happening, or another kind of endorsement is in play. Let’s check this out:
As New York City progressives go, so go the Democrats. New York’s primary election on June 23 will decide whether Mamdani’s election was a fluke or a foghorn alerting the city to a deep blue wave – one that could in turn shape the nation. As a progressive, I hope it’s the latter.
Lander isn’t the only congressional candidate endorsed by Mamdani, and the odds are tough for those running against the backed candidates.
In the 13th Congressional District, the mayor endorsed organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier to replace Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Still, polls are mixed on who will win this race, showing that a Mamdani endorsement may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
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We will see how valuable Mandani’s endorsement turns out to be, but there is no question that the moderates are scared to death. Look at Rep. Dan Goldman. I guess that he wasn’t anti-Trump or anti-Israel enough for this new brand of democratic socialism spreading in New York City and elsewhere.
The larger point is that people in places like Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile, and now Colombia are rejecting the message from the left. Over in New York City and other cities, it seems to be the opposite as voters are buying what they call democratic socialism. I guess that they think that life is hard in our cities because the rich are not paying their fair share, or however that slogan goes. Unfortunately, a lot of the voters buying that nonsense are young people poisoned by our colleges.
As we celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday, I can only imagine what my late father who fled communism so that I could grow up in freedom would say about this. He’d probably tell me that Castro once said that he would not seize private property or rig elections to help the communists. Chavez said something like that too.
Good luck New Yorkers, but some of us have already seen this movie and the ending is not pretty.
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