Sen. Chris Murphy D-Conn., was forced this week to humiliate himself on television by explaining away presumptive Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo as the result of some form of PTSD and stating that people deserve second chances.
We have been hearing this kind of thing a lot from Democrats lately, whether it’s poo-pooing podcaster Hasan Piker’s belief that America deserved 9/11, or Rep. Ilhan Omar’s constant Marxist ravings against the nation that took her in when she fled Somalia.
Democrats have created a Hydra of far-left figures who lead the populist movement that is taking over the party, just as the populist MAGA movement came to dominate the GOP over the past decade.
The key difference here is that Trump’s populism is centered around one leader, Trump himself. What makes this new Marxist populist movement a Hydra is that it has no single leader. It is a creature with many heads, and if one is cut off, like say, disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, it does little to harm to the creature as a whole.
This idea of decentralized power, or at least the appearance of it, on the American progressive left dates at least back to Occupy Wall Street in 2011, which famously had no formal leaders, but rather a collectivist "general assembly."
Join the conversation as a VIP Member