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Hakeem “Temu Obama” Jeffries, the House Minority Leader and a congressman from New York City, did not want to endorse Zohran Mamdani.

Jeffries especially didn’t want to endorse Mamdani in the middle of a government shutdown that his party caused by filibustering a short-term budget continuing resolution that, in a few days, will result in missed paychecks for essential federal workers and a suspension of benefits for recipients of programs like SNAP, which is what the old food stamp program has become.

To do so is to embrace a full retreat from the American mainstream.

Mamdani, after all, has run to the far fringes of the left on a number of issues which are toxic — in the extreme — for the American people. Like this bit of messaging, for example…

Which is problematic, of course. Especially given that it’s an absolute lie. Mamdani’s aunt wasn’t on any subways in New York after 9/11 because she wasn’t in New York at the time.

This ought to be a political face-plant that makes Mamdani untouchable by the national Democrat Party — and yet on the same day that it crashed on takeoff, Jeffries endorsed the Muslim communist Democrat candidate for mayor of the Big Apple.

Amid a government shutdown.

That has now turned the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a key union backer of the Democrats, against the party.

The country’s largest union representing federal workers is calling for lawmakers to pass a short-term spending measure to immediately end the government shutdown, urging Democrats to abandon their current position and join Republicans in supporting a stopgap solution.

“Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight,” American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley wrote in a statement first shared with NBC News. “It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship.”

The statement could increase pressure on Democrats to budge from their stance. Senate Democrats have insisted that they won’t vote to reopen the government without a commitment from Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending health care subsidies through the Affordable Care Act, which are set to expire at the end of the year. Without them, health insurance premiums on Obamacare markets will skyrocket for many individuals and families.

And this was the best Temu Obama could do in explaining why he didn’t back Mamdani when he won the primary…

And it wasn’t just Jeffries bowing his head to Comrade Zohran. New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, surrendered, too…

All of this naturally gave House Speaker Mike Johnson an opening he wasn’t going to pass up…

Just so.

There was a survey that came out last week showing that Mamdani actually trails Andrew Cuomo among American-born New Yorkers but is carrying 68 percent of the immigrant vote.

Which means the national Democrat Party is now lining up behind a Muslim communist with very decidedly anti-American, or at least un-American, ideas and worldview…

Mamdani has been an American citizen for only six years. Everything about him is a threat to our way of life, our national ethic, our moral code, and our culture. He’s literally an interloper who has come here demanding that we change our ways to suit him, and he’s on pace to win the mayorship of our largest city on the strength of an immigrant community that is fundamentally unassimilated to America. (RELATED: Representative Democracy and Convoluted Elections)

And the political class of the Democrat Party, which knows that Zohran Mamdani cannot be sold to the American people at large, has decided to embrace him.

It’s a breathtaking moment.

It reeks of desperation, to be sure. It would certainly have been much more convenient for Kathy Hochul and Hakeem Jeffries had Mamdani lost the Democrat primary in New York, or if Andrew Cuomo had been comfortably leading in the polls.

But Cuomo isn’t leading. He’s run a terrible campaign. He’s a spent political force who was a terrible governor of that state, and Cuomo’s brand of urban Democrat politics has run its course. It’s dead.

Mamdani is likely to win not so much because New Yorkers affirmatively want him to be their mayor but because nobody wants to be governed by Andrew Cuomo. They’ve been there and done that.

When you kill 15,000 senior citizens by injecting COVID patients into the nursing homes where they reside, as Cuomo did, it tends to make the extended families, friends, and acquaintances of those people acutely interested in your political career similarly expiring. And when you get run out of politics on a Me Too sexual harassment allegation, however spurious and overblown it might be, your future in getting Democrat votes is going to be necessarily dim.

And when the bill for this has been presented for payment, Cuomo is demanding that Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, back out of the race and endorse him. This carries a sliver of merit, to the extent that Cuomo cannot win with Sliwa in the race. (RELATED: This Is Why Sliwa Can’t Save NY By Not Showing Up to the Fight)

Except it increasingly looks like Cuomo can’t win without Sliwa in the race, either. And if Cuomo has offered Sliwa anything by way of policy or influence that might suggest an actual coalition, I haven’t seen it.

Cuomo is a loser, and his campaign is a loser. Everybody smells it at this point.

So Jeffries and Hochul and a lot of the other Democrats who might have otherwise backed Cuomo know that he wasn’t much of a horse to bet on. First, they stayed away, and now they’re on the communist bandwagon.

But it’s worse than that.

They’ve built their party on mass immigration and un-American, if not anti-American, cultural and political signals. That was the Ouija board on which they played when they summoned Mamdani.

Now that he’s here, and now that Minneapolis is about to elect another Muslim communist as its mayor, the Democrats are stuck.

This is the new brand of their party.

Ilhan Omar. Rashida Tlaib. Pramila Jayapal. Zohran Mamdani. Omar Fateh.

It isn’t just the American-born anti-Americans, the people who insist this country was founded by stealing land from Native Americans and building the country on the backs of slaves (it turns out that 2.5 percent of America’s 1860 population died in the Civil War, and only 1.5 percent of that population owned slaves, but whatever). That’s old and tired. The new hotness for the Democrats is to embrace as its leaders people from far worse places with greatly inferior cultures who demand that this country become more like the places they fled.

Well, OK.

Let’s see how that’s going to go.

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