DINOs take over the Democratic Party

Published June 26, 2026 5:30am ET



Tuesday’s primaries were the coming-out party of DINOs: Democrats in name only.  Any real Democrats not in a state of shock or terror are not paying attention. For the party is no longer theirs, and there’s probably nothing they can do about it.

They didn’t lose it exactly but gave it away. Stupidly, they pretended or genuinely believed that socialists were kind of like them, just a bit further to the left. Now they’ve found out that a difference of degree eventually becomes a difference in kind, and socialists are not the same genus as traditional Democrats.

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