Douglas Murray is a famous WAR CORRESPONDENT based in England. He has turned his attention to US politics and may have the answer to the current issues facing the Democratic party.
Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. But these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.
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AOC, Walz, Wu — these nuts are the future of the Democrats?!
By Douglas Murray
Published March 20, 2025, 6:26 p.m. ET
This was the week I became convinced that Don Lemon is an undercover MAGA operative. The former CNN presenter was on Bill Maher’s podcast the other day and was asked about the dire outlook for the Democratic Party. Which way should it go?
“People love AOC,” Lemon ventured. “People love Jasmine Crockett. People love Eric Swalwell and the like. I think the Democratic Party should put people out there who the people want — who they’re asking for.”
Maher begged to differ. People do not want these people, he pointed out. But Lemon continued to insist otherwise.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been floated by former CNN host Don Lemon as a potential future leader of the Democratic Party. Getty Images
Personally, I suspect the only person who ever even pretended to love Eric Swalwell was Chinese spy Fang Fang, whom Rep. Swalwell was banging the other year. But that’s a detail.
As I say, the only explanation for Lemon’s statement (other than it being a characteristic brain-fart) is that Lemon is secretly working to keep the MAGA movement in power for the foreseeable future.
Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. And these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.
Just consider how bad the situation is for the party.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, this week jabbed at Schumer for giving something to the Republicans “for nothing” in exchange.
So dire has been the backlash against Schumer (a mere stripling at 74) that he has canceled his upcoming book tour. “Security concerns” have been offered as the reason.
That isn’t security concerns from Republican rivals — but rather from disgruntled members of his own party.
Second, there is the dire bench that the Democrats have coming up. One-time golden boy Gavin Newsom has spent recent weeks trying to tidy up his image faster than he tried to tidy up the Palisades.
Today Governor Gavin is trying to “reach out” and show himself to be a man of the political center. By interviewing Steve Bannon.
Yet the disasters of Newsom’s time as governor will continue to swirl around him. And it’s unlikely that smoke will be able to clear from a bit of light podcasting.
Then there is the left of the party that is trying to drag it their way. But just look at how pathetic it is. It sounds more like a street movement than a political movement.
At a recent protest against federal government expenditure cuts, Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver told an audience: “I want to send a message to somebody. Elon, take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights to the moon. Because if you don’t, we are going to stand up, we are going to speak out, we´re going to march and we are going to do anything we need to do. You must your musty hands off our money or go to Moscow, you musty moo, moo, moo.”
The Gettysburg Address it was not.
But in case anyone forgets, Rep. Cleaver is a member of the Financial Services Subcommittee. And this is the best that he and his colleagues can do? To threaten to stand up and speak out and march and moo?
Similar vibes are coming out of Boston, where Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday announced again that her city will not comply with ICE or any other agencies seeking to remove dangerous illegal migrants from her area.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said she would not comply with ICE agents working to remove illegal immigrants from her city. REUTERS
Confirming her stance, Wu said, “We stand with immigrants, you belong here. Boston doesn’t back down. If you come for one of us, you will get all of us.”
So Wu is willing to stand off against the federal government and law enforcement based on the idea that someone who breaks into America illegally and stays in Boston has as much right to be there as anyone who has spent their whole life working in the city and paying taxes there?
That’s a heck of a platform to run on.
Meanwhile, the party’s roadkill are doing what they can to cheer themselves up. This week, former VP candidate Tim Walz (remember him?) cropped up to boast about how masculine he is and how threatening that makes him to Republicans. I won’t repeat the nickname that did for Tim.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Republicans were scared of his masculinity. Holden Smith/ZUMA Press / SplashNews.com
But he also tried to rally the troops by flirting with the movement that currently thinks the best form of political protest is to set fire to Teslas or key them when you see them in a parking lot.
Walz didn’t tell people to do that, but he did tell an audience this week that he recently added Tesla to the stock app on his iPhone. He had done so, he said, in order to give himself “a little boost during the day.”
In the ranting style that so endeared him to the electorate last year, he started screaming “225 and dropping” as the crowd whooped.
You might ask how shares in Gov. Walz’s own political future are doing these days. You might also ask whether Walz is aware how much pension stock in Minnesota is backed up by Tesla stock.
If the Democrats are willing to take any friendly advice, they should accept the fact that they really need to come up with some coherent policies. Something at a higher level than a street protest.
But if you were their enemy? Well then, like Don Lemon, you’d tell them to go the way of AOC and Cleaver and Walz and Wu, and encourage them to moo and moo ’til they can moo no more.
