WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Democratic primaries across New York City delivered a \u201cclean sweep\u201d for candidates endorsed by New York City mayor and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, results that supporters and critics alike described as a sign of a shifting Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what we saw yesterday evening were Democrats across the city turning out and voting for a new kind of politics,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
Even New York Attorney General Letitia James raised concerns about the direction of the party, saying, \u201cSome of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who did not understand the politics of New York City. All of us are frustrated with the Democratic Party, but you don’t blow it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told The National News Desk the party\u2019s problems are already severe and argued Democrats should draw a bright line between the party and democratic socialists.<\/p>\n
\u201c It’s already been blown up,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cI think the Democratic Party today, with its domination by the Democratic Socialists of America, is coming very close to what socialists were saying in 1932, in Germany and in Stalin’s Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dershowitz said democratic socialists should not run as Democrats, calling it misleading to voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Democrats have an obligation to tell the Democratic Socialists of America you’re a different party. Go form a new party, form a third party, and then you can run. But don’t run as Democrats,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cYou’re defrauding the public. You’re misleading the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dershowitz also criticized Mamdani\u2019s rhetoric about Israel and political action committees.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, Mamdani called me a monster. Said anybody who supports AIPAC or supports Israel is a monster,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cNow you have the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, calling me and other residents of New York who support Israel monsters.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also rejected the legitimacy of some progressive Jewish groups that support certain candidates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, they’re not really Jewish groups,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cThey’re groups that claim Jewish Voice for Peace is mostly non-Jewish, and it’s not for peace. They’re a fraudulent organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dershowitz accused Democratic leaders of failing to confront far-left candidates and said the party\u2019s \u201cbig tent\u201d approach is wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re being immoral,\u201d he said. \u201cNo tent is big enough for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the primary results show the Democratic Party moving toward socialism and argued that socialists can win low-turnout primaries by running as Democrats.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Democratic Party is moving toward becoming a socialist party, and Americans are not socialists,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cBut if the socialists are allowed to disguise themselves as Democrats, then they can squeak through with a small number of voters at primaries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dershowitz also said ideological imbalance in academia reflects broader political trends.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no Republicans in academia to speak of,\u201d he said, pointing to Harvard\u2019s faculty and arguing that \u201cthis is not meritocracy at work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Democratic primaries across New York City delivered a \u201cclean sweep\u201d for candidates endorsed by New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64701,106957,651,35635,61510,60,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-278359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-aipac","tag-alan-dershowitz","tag-democratic-party","tag-democratic-primaries","tag-democratic-socialists","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}