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The vote wasn’t even close. It passed 285-98, with 86 Democrats joining Republicans. That list included high-profile New Yorkers and New Jersey Democrats, even House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who awkwardly endorsed Mamdani at the last minute.
Democrats Run From AOC’s Radical Movement
The roster of Democrats voting for the anti-socialism resolution reads like a map of the very states where AOC and Mamdani claim to be building a movement. Ritchie Torres, Greg Meeks, Grace Meng, Laura Gillen, and Tom Suozzi all signed on.
Suozzi spent months distancing himself from Mamdani, making it clear to voters he had no interest in being linked to New York City’s newest socialist figurehead.
Even GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis weighed in, reminding Americans her family fled Cuba in 1959 to escape what she called “the very things that our new socialist mayor in New York City says he wants.”
A Growing Leftist Rebellion Threatens the Establishment
Despite this backlash from mainstream Democrats, the hard-left insurgency continues gaining steam. Observers warn that the socialist takeover AOC helped inspire could become a major liability for Democrats heading into the 2026 midterms.
As Liberty Nation’s Joe Schaeffer put it, “Two more candidates who are proud to align themselves with socialism are running for important House seats in solid blue districts in Democrat-controlled states…” He went on to describe a grassroots belief that the Democratic establishment is “corrupt to the core” and must be replaced entirely.
Former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti echoed the sentiment in an NBC News interview earlier this month, asking, “In my opinion, the real moment right now in the Democratic Party is, do we want to go back to the politics as usual?”
His target is California State Senator Scott Wiener, a notorious far-left politician whose extreme views on transgender policies and sex-trade legalization made him one of California’s most controversial lawmakers. Yet, despite Wiener’s radicalism, he’s still seen as aligned with the establishment — a scarlet letter in today’s left-wing civil war.
AOC’s Protégés Are Taking Over Key Primaries
Chakrabarti, co-founder of the Justice Democrats, is now running for Nancy Pelosi’s soon-to-be-vacant seat. That alone is a seismic moment. Only a few years ago, during Biden’s presidency, establishment favorites like Wiener would have been unstoppable. Now, the momentum has flipped.
Another rising activist, New York City Councilmember Chi Osse, is challenging none other than Hakeem Jeffries. Osse briefly left the Democratic Socialists of America in 2022, then rejoined this year, signaling renewed alignment with the socialist faction.
Schaeffer summed up the battle inside the Democrat Party bluntly, writing, “The Democratic establishment hasn’t run the show for decades by dumb luck… The mystique of incumbency and the assertion that capturing vital offices can be achieved only by supporting the pecking order already locked into place still carry pragmatic pull even among the most inflamed pitchfork-carrying progressives.”
A Party at War With Itself
Between Congress condemning socialism, Democrat lawmakers fleeing AOC’s ideology, and socialist candidates challenging their own leadership, one truth is now unavoidable.
AOC’s movement isn’t rising — it’s detonating the Democratic Party from the inside.
And voters will have a front-row seat to the fallout in 2026.
