One Squad member down, eight to go.
Vulgar junior hearth marshal Jamaal Bowman misplaced his Democratic main to George Latimer Tuesday evening, bringing to an finish one of many extra embarrassing political tenures in New York historical past.
He’s the primary member of the Squad — the unconventional leftist caucus underneath Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — to be proven the door.
The liberal press is presenting this as a tragedy. A “heartbreaker” wrote Michelle Goldberg in The New York Occasions, saying it can “in all probability function a warning to different politicians about the price of breaking with Washington’s pro-Israel political consensus.”
Please.
If by consensus you imply the rational majority who reject Bowman’s perception that the rapes of Israelis by Hamas terrorists was “propaganda,” then, sure, cause prevails.
Bowman was at all times an out-of-touch radical, however Oct. 7 uncovered him as a bitter antisemite. He referred to as Israel’s needed navy response “genocide,” and mentioned Jewish enclaves within the New York space have been “segregated.”
If solely the “price” of such beliefs results in the ejection of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two much more radical members of the Squad.
Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed that Bowman’s main was “one of the crucial vital elections within the fashionable historical past of this nation.”
We hardly assume the fortunes of 1 clown qualifies.
But when Bowman’s loss is a harbinger of issues to return, then thank heavens for that.
