A.J. Christopher: Is the Democrat Schism Finally Here?

Liberals have a problem, and it’s the same problem they’ve had for decades. There is a steadfast refusal to call out their own side’s radicals and nutjobs. In living memory, they’ve tolerated the Occupy Wall Street movement, the rotunda takeovers, the BLM rioters, the Antifa terrorists, Islamic extremists, the Squad clown car, and every blue-haired, errant, non-binary androgyne who identifies as a gelfling one minute and Atreyu’s luck dragon the next.[…]

But has a schism finally arrived between traditional liberals and the unhinged extremists on their far left?

Maybe, maybe not. But during this primary season alone, during which several blatantly anti-American, anti-West, anti-police, and anti-capitalist candidates won in New York, Minnesota, and elsewhere, some prominent liberal voices are openly discussing leaving the party.

Bill Maher is first in most people’s minds, as he’s been speaking with increasing alarm for years now about the leftist hijacking of the Democrat party. And Sen. John Fetterman, to many conservatives’ surprise, has been refreshingly vocal about calling out the calls for violence and hatred coming from his side of the aisle.

But now James Carville is openly calling for a party schism. Most of what Carville babbles is nonsense (he said AOC is “smart”), and much of his call for a schism is a calculation to prevent losing elections. But in a recent interview, he betrayed the fact that he, too, holds a few principles that he’s unwilling to compromise on, such as respecting the American flag, supporting interracial marriages, or defending Israel’s right to exist.

Will it be enough? Again, who knows. But I can speak personally that I know liberals in my life who have voiced the same concerns as have Maher, Fetterman, and Carville. The Democrat Party they voted for their entire lives is unrecognizable from what it was even a year or two ago. A few of the liberals I know are seriously contemplating voting Republican for the first time in their lives, or else not voting at all. They’re sick of the Islamists, they’re sick of trans insanity, they’re sick of the “youth” flash mobs, they’re sick of the performative Karens, and they’re sick of the Stalinist culture of repression the Democrat Party succumbed to, in which any and all dissent is ferociously attacked as ideological treachery.

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