The Democratic Party Gets Hijacked by a Rising Generation of Jacobins

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks — often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.All that is now passé.The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania’s senior senator, John Fetterman, himself roundly despised by Democrat leaders.Senator John Fetterman in 2022. AP/Gene J. PuskarToday, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.Forty years ago, any Democrat with a Nazi tattoo was political toast; today, he can become the party’s nominee for the Maine Senate race.So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi — while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.’s emphasis on the “content of . . . character.” It instead prefers fixating on “the color of . . . skin.”It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.Mayor Zohran Mamdani on February 3, 2026 at New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesSo these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race.The new Jacobins destroyed the southern border and welcomed in 10-12 million illegal aliens, seen as a future proletariat constituency. Today’s Jacobins would now ridicule President Clinton’s 1990s calls for secure borders and an end to illegal immigration as “fascist” and “racist.”The most recent nihilist developments in American society can be attributed to these Jacobin “Democrats”: biological men competing in women’s sports; critical legal theory that normalizes cashless bail; race-based reparations; violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later; radical abortion on demand until birth; attacks on the concept of the cultural “melting pot”; and opposition to organized Christianity.These agendas lack broad majority support. So street theater and violence focus on Tesla dealerships, ICE officers, conservative campus speakers, and, at times, any journalists covering the unrest.Following George Floyd’s death, protesters gather in front of a burning restaurant at Minneapolis on May 29, 2020. AP/John MinchilloJacobins make excuses for pro-Hamas campus violence, which often targets Jewish students. The often violent and corrupt Black Lives Matter movement was a Jacobin ancillary.Free speech is labeled “disinformation” and “misinformation” — synonyms for not toeing the Jacobin Party line. Until recent pushbacks, near-religious radical green agendas warred against fossil fuels and cost the working classes billions of dollars for sky-high fuel and electricity costs.Like the Robespierre brothers of old, the most radical Jacobins are so often to be found among the wealthiest and most privileged Americans. New York’s radical mayor, Zohran Mamdani, grew up as a rich Ugandan. The radical, self-described communist Maine senatorial candidate, Graham Platner, attended one of the most elite and expensive prep schools in the United States.When avowed socialists like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders barnstormed the country, they did so via private jets.The radical “Squad” member, Representative Ilhan Omar, cannot decide whether she is worth $30 million or nothing. The hard-left California billionaire, gubernatorial candidate, and radical environmentalist, Tom Steyer, is a billionaire who jump-started his fortune by investing in coal plants overseas and offshoring profits to avoid taxes.Luigi Mangione, left, next to his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, at Manhattan Criminal Court on December 16, 2025. Seth Wenig-pool/Getty ImagesAt least 10 states are drafting laws to tax the net worth, as well as the income, of “billionaires and millionaires,” apparently for their “social” crimes. Mr. Mamdani taps on the window of philanthropist Ken Griffin as a warning to get out of town. The mayor of Seattle scoffs at the rich leaving her state with their billions due to new punitive taxes, offering a sarcastic “bye.”In the old days, Democrats were embarrassed by their radicals and distanced themselves from the Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Black Panthers. Today, left-wing bomb throwers are the Democrat Party.Another multimillionaire, $200,000 Porsche-driving communist, Hasan Piker, has openly supported “social murder.”So Mr. Piker praised Luigi Mangione’s alleged targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.Meanwhile, Jacobins on social media expressed disappointment that all three assassination attempts on President Trump failed. The arsonist who burned down Pacific Palisades was a Mangione acolyte and saw his destruction as a revolutionary act, perhaps a form of mass “social murder.”Jacobinism ascendant: A public execution at Paris in 1793 during the French Revolution, depicted by Pierre-Antoine Demachy, ‘Une exécution capitale, place de la Révolution,’ detail. Via Wikimedia CommonsJacobin politicians call for Mr. Trump to be “eliminated,” label him as a “fascist,” and call for “any means necessary” to end his presidency. The aim is to lower the social and psychological barrier to violence.The Jacobin Democrats of today are systematically destroying the legacy of the Democratic Party. And why not?Their model is not the American Founding, but the radical mandated equality — and violence — of the French Revolution.Tribune Content Agency

The Democratic Party Gets Hijacked by a Rising Generation of Jacobins

The Democratic Party Gets Hijacked by a Rising Generation of Jacobins

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