Democrats face their ‘David Duke moment’ in New York City

Zohran Mamdani is now the Democrats’ nominee for mayor of New York City. He is also an openly anti-Semitic socialist.

His nomination puts the Democratic Party in a position not unlike the one Republicans faced in 1991, when David Duke — a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan — became the GOP nominee in Louisiana’s gubernatorial runoff.

Now it’s the Democrats’ turn. They must reject Zohran Mamdani and the hateful, dangerous movement he represents, just as the Republicans did with David Duke.

This is the Democrats’ David Duke moment. And they’re failing the test.

Principle over party

In Louisiana’s 1991 “jungle primary,” the two top vote-getters were:

Edwin Edwards, a former Democratic governor who had been charged with bribery and later convicted of extortion and money laundering;