One Squad member down, eight to go.
Vulgar junior fire marshal Jamaal Bowman lost his Democratic primary to George Latimer Tuesday night, bringing to an end one of the more embarrassing political tenures in New York history.
He’s the first member of the Squad — the radical leftist caucus under Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — to be shown the door.
The liberal press is presenting this as a tragedy. A “heartbreaker” wrote Michelle Goldberg in The New York Times, saying it will “probably serve as a warning to other politicians about the cost of breaking with Washington’s pro-Israel political consensus.”
Please.
If by consensus you mean the rational majority who reject Bowman’s belief that the rapes of Israelis by Hamas terrorists was “propaganda,” then, yes, reason prevails.
Bowman was always an out-of-touch radical, but Oct. 7 exposed him as a bitter antisemite. He called Israel’s necessary military response “genocide,” and said Jewish enclaves in the New York area were “segregated.”
If only the “cost” of such beliefs leads to the ejection of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two even more radical members of the Squad.
Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed that Bowman’s primary was “one of the most important elections in the modern history of this country.”
We hardly think the fortunes of one clown qualifies.
But if Bowman’s loss is a harbinger of things to come, then thank heavens for that.
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