Democracy Dies in Darkness

OpinionJamaal Bowman was a Democratic Trump. Now he’s gone.

It’s an encouraging sign that there is a critical mass on the left who can say: Stop.

By Dana Milbank

Columnist|

June 25, 2024 at 9:46 p.m. EDT

(Photos; Yana Paskova for The Washington Post, Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

5 min

This is the story of two New York demagogues. Both men have a history of bigotry, bullying, law breaking, promoting bogus conspiracy theories, engaging in obscene public rants and playing the martyr.

One, embraced by the Republican Party, became president and may well become president again.

The other, kept at arm’s length by the Democratic Party, was dumped by Democratic voters in a congressional primary Tuesday night.

Opinion by Dana Milbank

Dana Milbank is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. He sketches the foolish, the fallacious and the felonious in politics. His new book is “The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crackup of the Republican Party” (Doubleday). Twitter

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