The Gang of Four Insurgency within the Democratic Party

Although the press refers to them as “The Squad”, I refer to Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley as “The Gang of Four.” For those of you too young to remember the original Gang of Four were leaders, one of whom was Mao’s wife, of the Maoist Cultural Revolution in China that lasted from 1966-1976 which nearly destroyed the Chinese economy as they sought to return to the Maoist ideals of the 1930s.  However within a month of Mao’s death all four of them were put on trial for treason.

Although the congresswomen are far from being rabid Maoists, they are serving a similar function in the Democratic Party as they seek to purge the Democratic Party of its more moderate members by first publicly attacking them and then by promoting primary challengers to incumbents. This is a formula for electoral defeat because the country as a whole is far more moderate than they are.

Just like the 2018 congressional elections the 2020 election will be won or lost in the suburbs and the more the Democratic Party is identified with The Gang of Four the easier it will be for Trump to win re-election  and for the Republicans to regain control of the House. Thus there was a method to Trump’s racist madness in calling for the Gang to go back to where they came from. While it is important to support the Gang as citizens it is even more important for the Democratic Party candidates to disassociate themselves from their ideas. Simply put, the “loony left” is not going to win in 2020.