DAVID MARCUS: Meet the Five Families of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is a very old and venerable institution and as such it has a lot of rules a lot of buffers and yes this thing of theirs it has centers of power You might even call them families Now these families so to speak they aren t at war with each other at least not usually but they do have their own interests and priorities and sometimes conflicts do arise To truly understand the party and where it is going you have to understand the Five Families that lead it So let's take a look one by one Which crews are in ascendency Which are in chaos And what will it mean for the party as it seeks to take Congress and the White House and put every agency in the country right in its back pocket Over the past several years Nancy The Gavel Pelosi has positioned the San Francisco family once a fringe backwater into the most of powerful of the five Not only did Pelosi whack the second-term ambitions of the party s old boss Joey Naps Biden but she hand-selected Frisco s own Kamala Cackles Harris to replace him DAVID MARCUS MR MAMDANI GOES TO WASHINGTON BETWEEN ROCK AND HARD PLACE Old Lady Pelosi might not be speaker of the House anymore but who do we find leading the presidential primary polling in the modern day in the party Why none other than Gavin The Peacock Newsom another San Francisco treat and a testament to its family s outsized power While the family has traditionally been the party s the majority left-leaning that title faces a challenge from the northern family The Minneapolis family led by Tim Whitey Walz an extremely good earner as we are finding out every day is one that is surpassing San Francisco s legendary leftism Ilhan The Inlaw Omar is the best example Her political vision is one of reparations whereby through statute or sometimes you know just graft money goes from native-born Americans to immigrant groups like Minnesota s Somali public who will not assimilate LOOMS LARGE HARRIS NEWSOM PRITZKER CONVERGE AT HIGH-STAKES DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUMMITKey to the operation of the Minneapolis family is Mayor Jacob The Kneeler Frey even though he almost got knocked off in the latest voting process by one the very Somali politicians he regularly panders to Frey s main job is to exemplify for White Minnesotans and Americans at large why their practices should be abandoned and replaced by the blessings of third-world corruption This family is small for now but very dangerous HAKEEM JEFFRIES DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER MAMDANI IS FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTYThere is no family with more history or more current political power in Washington than New York and yet it finds itself in chaos Even with Chuckie term Schumer in charge of Senate Democrats and Hakeem The Scheme Jeffries running the party in the House it is the younger Capos making a move on that power Alexandria The Face Ocasio-Cortez has assembled a socialist crew headed up by latest Mayor-Elect Zohran Smiley Mamdani that is sweeping up elections left and right even as Schumer and Jeffries try to protect to their proteges like Dan Rich Boy Goldman from primary defeats One key point of tension is Israel which inevitably makes money for its partners but rubs the up-and-comers the wrong way In normal times Barack Barry Obama would be the national boss of bosses as the former two-time president but his grasp on the party seems to be waning these days This is in large part because Barry s Chicago-style party traditionally masks its far-left ambitions with a face of moderation This is exactly what Rahm The Suit Emanuel is trying to be The trouble is that party voters don t want a socialist in bankers clothing anymore they just want a socialist DAVID MARCUS THE ISSUES DRIVING FAR-LEFT'S SPLIT WITH DEMSThis is precisely why we see JB Double Cheeseburger Pritzker making his move into national prominence by being a pebble in the shoe of President Donald Trump whenever and wherever he can Despite the shifting winds in the party across the country the South Carolina family with its long-serving boss Jim The Kingmaker Clyburn still plays by the old-school rules and is looking to expand its power SOCIALIST WAVE GOES COAST-TO-COAST AS HISTORIC WINS SHAKE UP THE MAYORAL ELECTIONSThe Kingmaker wants his Palmetto State primary to take out Iowa and New Hampshire and become the party s first in the nation giving his family perhaps the bulk moderate of the five now an even bigger say in choosing the next capo dei capi to run for the White House on the party ticket Clyburn has checked the presidential ambitions of socialist Bernie The Mittens Sanders several times now but will he be able to hold off the next generation of Sandernistas Only time as they say will tell Over the next two years the Five Families will go to the mattresses to keep their stake in the national party But only one will produce a presidential nominee with the chance to make American voters an offer they can t refuse
