DAVID MARCUS: The 3 issues driving far-left's split with Dems

In 2015, erstwhile Donald Trump was moving for the Republican information for president, a refrain that was often heard from his supporters and mocked by his detractors was, "He fights."

It seemed bare and vacuous, but successful fact, it represented a fewer halfway issues that GOP voters felt their enactment was ignoring, oregon astatine slightest not prioritizing. Today, it is the Democrat basal that is demanding its enactment "fight." But combat for what?

After Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral race, New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte’s run sent a van done Manhattan urging businesses to relocate northbound for "no Communism, little reddish tape, and little taxes." ((Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images))

Trump’s halfway issues, and those of what would go known arsenic MAGA, were a spot obscure astatine first, but yet became precise clear: Secure the border, wantonness globalism and atrocious commercialized deals, and combat the civilization war

What are the issues oregon policies that are animating today’s warring tone successful the Democrat Party? There are 3 that are dominant.

WHEN WE CALL EVERYTHING AN 'ISM,' WE STOP HEARING WHAT VOTERS ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT

The archetypal contented tin astir beryllium called redistribution of wealth. We should debar utilizing the word socialism here, due to the fact that it is vague and toxic, and what Democrats are truly talking astir is the precise intent of the societal information net, from payment to nutrient stamps.

At slightest nominally, the presumption of the Democrat Party for fractional a period has been that payment programs are a manus up, not a manus out. As John F. Kenndy enactment it, they are the rising tide lifts each ships.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez airs for a photograph successful Astoria, Queens, Sept. 6, 2025. (@ZohranKMamdani via X)

In practice, this has led to a imperishable underclass that is funded by high-earning taxpayers, but Democrats person agelong refused to admit it. Democrat socialists person ripped disconnected the band-aid. Soaking the affluent to wage for the basal needs of the mediocre and moving antheral is their arrogant caller mantra.

SOCIALIST WAVE SPREADS COAST TO COAST AS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS RALLY AROUND ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S NYC WIN

It turns out, the likes of New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani person Democrat voters with them connected this about-face. In a caller Gallup poll, 66% of Democrats had a affirmative presumption of socialism, with lone 42% saying the aforesaid astir capitalism.

Former President Joe Biden utilized to susurration that billionaires should "pay their just share." Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., outcry from the rooftops that the affluent should wage mode much than their "fare share," and fundamentally subsidize everyone else.

The 2nd large contented that the Democrat Socialists person locked onto is Israel, and America’s narration with and subject backing of the Jewish state, thing that adjacent a decennary agone the enactment supported arsenic bedrock policy.

BILL MAHER SAYS DEMOCRATS HAVE ‘PRETTY BIG SPLIT’ IN PARTY AFTER ELECTION WINS

According to a Pew survey, since 2022, the percent of Democrats with a antagonistic presumption of Israel has gone from 53% to a staggering 69%, and the thin and bare New Democrats cognize it.

Rep. Ro Khana, D-Calif., who has been softly crafting a caller imaginativeness for his party, precocious posted a database of issues astatine the halfway of his mission. They included Medicare for all, kid attraction for $10 a day, housing, and then, close determination astatine the bottom, "No bombs to Israel."

U.S. Senator John Fetterman during the sixth installment of The Senate Project moderated by FOX NEWS anchor Shannon Bream astatine the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate connected June 2, 2025 successful Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, pro-Israel Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has each but admitted determination is "no room," successful the enactment for those connected his broadside of the issue. That's not bully quality for the governmental aboriginal of moderates similar Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

DEMOCRATS LIKE ZOHRAN MAMDANI CLAIM TO EMBRACE YOUNG PEOPLE. THEY’RE BETRAYING THEM

The 3rd contented that is intelligibly firing up the Democrat basal is immigration, and erstwhile I accidental they are fired up, I mean seemingly mean radical leaping successful beforehand of the cars of national authorities to support them from deporting amerciable alien criminals.

Take Mamdani’s acceptance code successful Brooklyn past week: "Thank you to those truthful often forgotten by the authorities of our city, who made this question their own. I talk of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas," helium said. "Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian enactment cooks and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties."

The cardinal words present are "who made this movement."

THE FAR LEFT HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM, AND IT’S TURNING VOTERS OFF

Make nary mistake, this caller iteration of the Democrat Party volition not lone question to springiness amnesty to each idiosyncratic illegally successful the United States, they volition unfastened the borderline again, and their voters volition cheer connected the invasion.

It wasn’t conscionable constitution Republicans who underestimated Trump’s entreaty successful 2015, it was the full country. What we didn’t spot past was that connected his large 3 issues, the border, globalism, and the civilization war, helium was tapping into a existent fashionable zeitgeist.

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Today, we are astatine a akin point, connected redistribution of wealth, Israel, and immigration, the politician socialists person recovered fashionable policies among their base, and each the Chuck Schumers successful the satellite can’t speech them retired of it.

Just arsenic Trump took implicit the GOP earlier anyone rather knew it, the politician socialists person recovered the aforesaid warring way to dominance among Democrats, and for the fewer moderates left, it already looks acold excessively precocious to halt it.