Graham Platner & Al Qaeda’s Congressman-Elect from New Jersey Are the Consequence of Democrats Failing the “David Duke Test” with Mamdani

In August 2025, in the run-up to the mayoral election in New York City, I wrote a piece for The Blaze outlining how that election was a “David Duke” test for the Democrats. They had the choice of a supporting a racist adversary of the United States in Zohran Mamdani, or repudiating Mamdani and supporting the Republican, no matter how unpalatable they might find the decision to vote “R.”

Democrats failed the test, choosing to rally around Mamdani, who is now New York’s mayor.

The consequences are being realized quickly, with Jew-hatred and virulent anti-Americanism now mainstreamed in the Democratic party, as evidenced by Democrats clearing the field for Nazi fanboy Graham Platner to win the Maine senate nomination, and Adam Hamawy winning the Democrat nomination to a Congressional seat in New Jersey. Mr. Hamawy is a squad-endorsed former Al-Qaeda volunteer who also palled around with the original Twin Towers bomber, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (aka “The Blind Sheik.”) Hamawy actually testified as a character witness for the Blind Sheik in the trial following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.

As I wrote in that Blaze piece titled “Democrats face their ‘David Duke moment’ in New York City”:

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; and David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who ran as a Republican. Duke received only 32% of the vote, but that was enough to advance to the runoff. Although he had run for office several times in the 1980s as a Democrat, Duke ran as a Republican in 1991 — and won the Republican candidacy. Faced with an impossible choice of backing an unrepentant white supremacist on their party’s ticket, Republicans rallied around Edwards, launching a campaign under the nose-holding slogan: “Vote for the crook — it’s important.” And it worked. The crook Edwards defeated Duke, 61% to 39%.

Democrats are doing just the opposite of how Republicans handled the David Duke problem. Democrats won’t even renounce a candidate who supports terrorism against the United States, nor one with the Totenkopf tattoo used by guards at Nazi death camps.

With Democrats rapidly sliding down the most odious of slippery slopes, it does not seem far-fetched for them to soon embrace Sharia law, pogroms, and other once unthinkable “solutions.” It was bad enough when Elizabeth Warren endorsed Graham Planter in March, gushing that he’d ”flip Maine and then actually deliver change for working people.” But after even more awful revelations about Platner, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer met with the Nazi-loving Democrat and proudly announced that he still supports Platner. The most polite term I can think of to describe Schumer’s action is to call him a kapo. I have Jewish friends who use much harsher language.

There’s more...

Chris Rabb just won the Democrat nomination for a congressional seat in Philadelphia. With no Republican opponent, this anti-semitic “Democrat Socialist of America” will be representing the Democrats in Congress. Rabb has never criticized the Palestinian mass-murder of Jews on October 6, but he refers to the Israeli response as a “genocide.” In response to the Hannukah mass murder of Jews at Australia’s Bondi Beach, Mr. Rabb shared a post on Instagram alleging that the massacre was a “Zionist false flag.” Not a single Democrat member of Congress will condemn Mr. Rabb or declare his unfitness to be a part of their caucus.

And there are still more of these types likely heading to Congress after next November’s election. Darializa Avila Chevalier is running for a congressional seat in New York City. She is endorsed by Mamdani and her positions include eliminating police, eliminating national borders, eliminating free enterprise, and, of course, working to eliminate the state of Israel. She doesn’t specifically articulate an endorsement for the murder of Jews, she just plans to celebrate when Israel and its Jewish inhabitants “suddenly disappear.”

If Democrats had not failed the “David Duke test” with Mamdani, perhaps these elections would have turned out differently. Or maybe not. But the Democrats now have no moral authority to prevent their Al-Qaeda wing from asserting its agenda and taking on leadership roles.

It’s also fair to ask at this point if there are any Islamo-terrorist positions that Democrats could not tolerate among their members. They already have caucus members who embrace the murder of Jews in Israel and abroad. The only place they aren’t advocating for it is in the United States, at least so far.

Amidst all this Jew-hatred, it must also be understood that the Democrats’ new base hates straight, white Christians just as passionately. We’re not safe from where this is headed.

Mamdani, Platner and the others are now everyone’s problem, because they are now the base of the Democrat party, which is rapidly becoming America’s Islamist party. Shame on the Democrats for not stopping this problem before it was too late.

Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Reverse Okies and Blue State Refugees — Another Wave Appears To Be Building” discusses my observation that another wave refugees appears to be fleeing blue states for havens of opportunity such as Tennessee.

I also document that voting records show these refugees voting overwhelmingly Republican in the red states they settle in. For instance, the registration by party of those moving from Washington to Idaho was documented by Fox News to be 62% Republican to just 12% Democrat.

I’ve also noticed a growing number of vehicles throughout the greater metro area that I would compassionately call “Reverse Okies.” They have license plates from places like California, Washington, Oregon, and New York on their weathered vehicles. A demographic observation of the drivers indicates that they are the “deplorables” or “bitter clingers” that are so despised by prominent Democrats. While we in Tennessee are justifiably worried about our culture being upended by woke Californians, the couple from Modesto in a 12-year old Chrysler minivan, and seeking a new start for their family, is not going to be sending a cross-dressing child to school. States like Tennessee are clearly a land of hope and opportunity for regular Americans beaten down by blue-state governance.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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