After Trump’s election, a whole chorus of pundits confidently predicted that the Democrats would be jolted back to the center, shedding their radical wings like a snake outgrowing its skin—but I knew that was fantasy. One political loss doesn’t rewire tribal instinct; it just deepens the trenches. People don’t change when they lose—they change when staying the same becomes impossible, and for most of them, that’s nowhere near. The folks with stable lives—jobs, homes, something to lose—are already largely on board with Trump or at least orbiting his gravity. But the swarm of grifters feeding off the chaos? They’ll simply hitch their wagon to whatever new firebrand screams louder. Mamdani might look like the fringe now, but give it a few months—someone even more unhinged will show up, and the party grandees will dutifully nod along, terrified of being primaried by their own ideological spawn. This isn’t a course correction. It’s a full-speed nosedive toward the bottom.

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