(Washington Stand) Most great institutions are less vulnerable to the dangers of external assault than they are to crumbling from within. So it proves to be with the current Democratic Party, which runs an infinitesimal risk of being broken by its political opponents, but a much more serious risk of being broken by its own internal dissenters — or, more accurately, revolutionaries. The Democratic “establishment” understands this problem, but that does not mean it has the solution.
The problem was evident in the New York Democratic primaries last month, when candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and endorsed by left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani upset several incumbents in safe seats to expand the far-Left cohort in Washington. NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo explained in an interview that the DSA doesn’t “agree” with “the way the Democratic Party establishment organizes or runs its party apparatus” and plans to organize its own subversive architecture from within.