While Mamdani's machine was sweeping New York's congressional primaries Tuesday night, one Democrat went on Fox News and said out loud what most of his party wouldn't dare.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), appearing on Sean Hannity's program as the results rolled in, delivered a blunt, unsparing verdict on what the evening represented for his party, and for America.
"Because you have such contempt for Israel, I mean, of course, you're also anti-American, and you're anti-Western civilization," Fetterman said. "And you're anti-capitalism and the American way of life."
He didn't stop there. "Now, I mean, they're all socialists, of course. Now there are communists and now Marxists and now they're proud of this," Fetterman added, watching the results of a primary night in which democratic socialists swept three New York congressional seats, ousting two sitting incumbents in the process.
Fetterman called it the rise of "the emerging full pro-Hamas wing" of the Democratic Party, which he said is "declaring a war on regular Democrats."
He called out what he described as an "intensely anti-Jewish" atmosphere pervading the New York primaries. "Hating on Israel, and essentially antisemitism, has become like the center of a lot of these primaries across the country, and definitely that we're witnessing in New York City," Fetterman said. "You have these kinds of candidates that are actively trying to cram as much anti-Israel, and essentially antisemitism, into their platform and now these are the kinds of people that are winning right now."
He also flagged the incident in which a Brooklyn coffee shop publicly humiliated Rep. Dan Goldman, who is Jewish, and his young daughter, calling it emblematic of the broader atmosphere the primary had created.
