Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has apparently had enough of his party’s growing love affair with radical socialism.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, the Democrat offered what can only be described as a warning shot to his fellow party members who seem content letting their party fall into the hands of far left extremists waving red flags in more ways than one.
Shapiro’s words carried weight because he is one of the only remaining figures in the Democratic Party who can still plausibly claim some centrist credibility.
His exchange with CNN host Dana Bash revealed just how bad things have gotten.
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Bash brought up Darializa Avila Chevalier, a self-described organizer and socialist who openly called for the “abolition of prisons,” “open borders,” and an end to “deportations even of people convicted of violent crimes.”
Chevalier had also attended a pro-Palestine rally on October 8, 2023, only a day after Hamas slaughtered Israelis in one of the most brutal attacks in decades.
That event, by multiple reports, was loaded with antisemitic rhetoric.
Bash asked Shapiro how he felt about someone espousing those views now serving in the United States Congress.
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Shapiro replied carefully, “Her district voted for her. But I have profound differences from that particular candidate, based on the citations that you read there.”
He went on to admit that she is not “someone who I would agree with on many things, or that we share similar values.”
Shapiro noted that she “ran on the Democratic ticket, I guess as a socialist,” yet conceded that “her voters in that district determined that she was the one they wanted representing them.”
When Bash asked what that says about his party, Shapiro’s response was striking.
“I think that what our party has to go through, that will be very healthy, and something that we’ve not really done since the 1992 elections, is to have a battle over what we believe in.”
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Translation: the sane Democrats are losing control, and it is making the moderates nervous.
The problem for Shapiro is that there may no longer be enough reasonable Democrats left to stage this supposed “battle.”
The far left activists are not just influencing the party; they are taking it over.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has long since eaten away at the Democrats’ rational core, leaving behind an angry base that fuses identity politics, anti capitalism, and open antisemitism.
The New York Post noted that Shapiro is “widely seen as a comparatively moderate figure” within his party, but unlike Senator John Fetterman, he avoids open brawls with the far left.
That caution may cost him, because his silence on some of the radicals’ most toxic ideas is beginning to look more like surrender than pragmatism.
The radicals are not whispering anymore.
They are announcing their agenda at full volume.
Chevalier’s anti Israel campaign rhetoric is a prime example of what Democrats have embraced.
Her platform would have been considered fringe even a decade ago. Now, it is energizing a large bloc of young Democrats.
That cannot sit well with Shapiro, who is Jewish and who has watched his own party tolerate chants that verge on excusing terrorism.
Polls suggest that the Democratic base increasingly aligns with socialist positions.
Abolish ICE, defund police, redistributive economics, and open borders are practically litmus tests for Democrat activists. Moderates like Shapiro are on the wrong side of this growing cultural revolution.
Although some still whisper that Shapiro could mount a presidential run in 2028, it seems fantasy.
Any Democrat who insists that socialism and antisemitism are not mainstream in the party would find themselves canceled before the Iowa caucuses even began.
Conservatives might watch all of this with a mixture of amusement and warning.
The Democratic Party’s implosion is spectacular to observe, but the consequences for the country are serious.
When one of America’s two major parties is controlled by radicals who despise borders, private property, and American values, it affects everyone.
Shapiro’s comments were as close as you will hear to a Democrat admitting his party is out of its mind.
His call for an internal fight over “what we believe in” might sound noble, but the radicals already answered that question.
They believe in socialism, cultural division, and power at any cost.
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As the famous verse goes, the center cannot hold.
Shapiro may want reform, but the socialists are demanding revolution.
If the governor’s cautious remarks are any signal, he knows the fight is coming, and it will not end well for the few moderates left.
Unless Democrats rediscover sanity soon, their political brand will continue morphing into an unrecognizable coalition of grievance radicals and globalist elites, united only by one thing: contempt for the America that the rest of us still cherish.
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Very few Dems have spoken against the radicals; Shapiro and Fetterman are the only ones who come to mind. The reason for their complete silence is either that they AGREE with what the Socialists say outloud, or they KNOW their days are numbered, or they UNDERSTAND from history how extremists deal with dissenters.
The first one means they are Socialists themselves, fraudulent actors wearing a thin veneer of normalcy for political expediency. The second means they are hearing and seeing the takeover in real time, and are fearful about this crisis and don’t know what to do. The third means they hope to get through the crisis by being given permission to serve a few more years, then retire as the coup nears completion and the Socialists reach full control.
CONCLUSION: “Mainstream” Dems are either actors, cowards, or in politics only for themselvs. Whichever it is, they are selfish traitors who have no business in positions of trust.
Ahhhhhh just longing for the good ol days when ‘better dead if red’ were the keywords of the day. Fng commies anyhoo.
He appears to be a little too late, what is happening is the cost of his long silence. He should have backed Fetterman more when he started calling out the party. Doing nothing is allowing it to happen. If you care about this country and its citizens stand up and shout what you see going wrong. Stand with We The People and forget party for now. JMO
Agree. Perhaps the run amok extremists unchecked will self destruct faster in the absence of vocal centrists. We can only hope. Hard to believe the lot actually gathers supporters.
I’VE BEEN SCREAMING FOR DECADES THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE CLOSET MARXISTS!!! NOW THEY ARE STEPPING OUT INTO THE DAYLIGHT WITH THEIR MANIFESTO TO DESTROY AMERICA!!!! WAKE UP, DAMN IT!!! ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR A DEMONRAT AT THIS POINT IS A MARXIST!!!!
Bullschiff! Shapiro is no Moderate. That’s a persona he trots out for the gullible. He wouldn’t even have their site at the National State Fair Booth decorated & manned. There are no sane Democrat Politicians in America other than Senator Fetterman. And the Loons are already planning to primary him.