Note on The Democrat Tea Party Is Here via Garbage Day

But the veneer of cheeky, squeaky clean fun completely broke down when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul took the stage. Hochul endorsed Mamdani a month ago, well before Democrat bigwigs like Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did, of course. But Mamdani’s supporters completely turned on Hochul before she could even get a word out, much to her apparent surprise.

As Hochul ran through a list of Trump overreach in New York, describing recent ICE arrests and the government shutdown affecting SNAP benefits and healthcare for New Yorkers, the crowd started shouting, “do something,” and “you’re the governor!” They also started interrupting her with loud chants of “tax the rich,” to the point where she finally had to break character and say, “I can hear you.” Things got even worse when Hochul pronounced Mamdani’s name wrong. It was so contentious that Mamdani, almost two hours before he was supposed to take the stage, had to come out and personally walk her off stage.

And it was this mini showdown with Hochul last night that made it clear, for me, that whether Mamdani wins or loses, the outcome, at least for the Democrats, will be the same. As Axios wrote this spring, the Democrat Tea Party is here. It is socialist, populist, very online, and extremely angry. And it hates Trump, but it really fucking hates the Democrats that let him back into office.

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The Democrat Tea Party Is Here

Well that sounds encoueaging.