Why the New York’s Mayoral’s Race has Exposed the Biggest Divide in the Democratic Party

President Trump has become one of the most underrated politicians in the history of the United States. While the left and their allies in the failing legacy media do not want to give the 47th President credit for anything, Trump has built the kind of broad-based coalition that few leaders have managed to create or maintain in US history. The Republicans party is one of older and younger voters, moderates and conservatives, men and women, and both business leaders and the working class. Indeed, as bad of a candidate as Kamala Harris was, the fact remains that today’s Democratic party, which is bigger than any one person, simply doesn’t have the amount of support as the growing MAGA movement.

While there has obviously been a significant divide on policy between moderates and progressives in the Democratic party, the recent New York mayoral race has exposed a much bigger concern the struggling Democrats face today than simply differences on viewpoints. The increasingly important and vocal young base of the Democratic party does not like or have any confidence in their leaders. Today’s younger generation of Democrats have very little respect for the older and more moderate generation of leftists that came before them, and many in this key demographic have been radicalized at the failing university system that has loaded them up with student debt rather than any actual skills these individuals can successfully use in the real world. The biggest divide in today’s failing Democratic party is the massive differences between the younger and older voters amongst the Democrats, and the differences between these generations are much more than simply policy views.

Most older Americans remember the Cold War, Hitler, and the failed and brutal Soviet Union; these citizens, even Democrats, want nothing to do with Communist or many socialist ideals. This is not true of many of the younger generation of radical leftists. Most of these people were born after the Iron Curtain had fallen, and they’ve also often been indoctrinated at left-wing universities about the absurd appeal of communist ideals. When Mamdami, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, whose ideas are in reality communist, easily won the recent New York mayoral primary against his chief rival, the older and more moderate Cuomo, this race took the band-aid off the simmering tension that has existed in the party for years. AOC and Pelosi often were in conflict over issues, and many younger progressives were also not happy with Biden’s support for some oil and gas development, such as the Willow Project, a historically large fossil fuel initiative the Biden administration approved to get their absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act passed.

The facts remains that most of the current leadership of the Democratic Party is completely out of touch with younger voters. Biden and Pelosi were both in their 80s before the former President left the political scene and Pelosi stepped down as speaker; neither had any appeal to progressives who had just graduated from college and were in their twenties. While Obama did have strong support with this younger demographic, the former President has largely disappeared from the political scene since 2016, with the failed former leader only making consistent public appearances during the 2020 and 2024 Presidential elections. The real divide in today’s Democratic party is not just ideological; the differences are also generational and cultural.
When James Carville recently spoke against a younger leader at the DNC, David Hogg, who wanted to primary Democrats not supporting more radical and left-wing policies, this fight, which boiled over into the public, was yet another example of the growing disconnect between younger progressives and the older, more moderate Democrats. The reality is that the only issue unifying the older and younger demographics in the Democratic party was both these groups’ hatred of Trump, and in more local races like New York’s mayoral primary, these divisions are being laid bare.

One of the most underrated parts of Trump’s 2024 campaign was how the 47th President used podcasts and other methods to reach out to younger voters. Trump gets along very well with young men of all races, including blacks and Hispanics, which is rare for a Republican. Most younger conservatives are also enthusiastic supporters of both the President and the MAGA movement, while prior candidates such as Bush and Romney had very limited appeal to this increasingly important demographic. The reality is that Trump’s broad-based appeal to people of differing ages, ideologies, genders, and races shows MAGA is both a more inclusive and broad-based movement than the failing and increasingly extreme Democratic party of today.

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