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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders\u2019 path to the nomination was walled off by party insiders.<\/p>\n

Read more Chuck Schumer gets his Democrats ready for another shutdown showdown<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, superdelegates \u2014 unpledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention who included prominent party leaders and elected officials such as governors, members of Congress and Democratic National Committee members \u2014 made up roughly 15% of the total delegates at the DNC.<\/p>\n

Many of these superdelegates pledged their allegiance to Hillary Clinton before any votes were cast, giving her an early, massive lead in the primary. She secured the endorsements from 571 of these party insiders, compared with Mr. Sanders\u2019 48.<\/p>\n

Because superdelegate counts were added to media network polling numbers, the narrative emerged that Mrs. Clinton was a shoo-in for the presidency, discouraging potential Sanders voters and suppressing his momentum.<\/p>\n

When Mr. Sanders won the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary by a commanding 22-percentage-point popular victory, Mr. Sanders walked away with 15 delegates and Mrs. Clinton walked away with 14, despite his winning the primary by an almost historic margin. Yet because six of the state\u2019s eight superdelegates backed Mrs. Clinton, the delegate split obscured the scale of his win.<\/p>\n

At the convention that year, Mr. Sanders\u2019 team tried to lobby Mrs. Clinton\u2019s superdelegates to switch sides, to no avail.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party defeated the socialist outsider who caucused with them, but not for long. Mr. Sanders went to work mobilizing grassroots activists to join his \u201cpolitical revolution,\u201d pushing for progressive policies such as \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d the Green New Deal and College for All.<\/p>\n

He attacked wealthy establishment donors and Democratic incumbents in favor of Democratic Socialists of America candidates, who branded their politics as working to serve all people, not just the richest 1%.<\/p>\n

DSA candidates have won at least 38 primary elections nationwide so far this year, including some that upset entrenched incumbents. In New York City, socialist Zohran Mamdani won the mayor\u2019s race last year, and in June the three congressional candidates he endorsed sailed to victory in their primaries. These include Darializa Avila Chevalier, who defeated Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat in upper Manhattan and the Bronx.<\/p>\n

DSA-backed candidates have won local races in Oregon, California, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Utah, Maryland, Washington, Colorado and the aforementioned New York.<\/p>\n

After the DSA\u2019s stunning victories in New York\u2019s primary, Mr. Sanders posted on social media that one of the \u201clessons\u201d from the contest was \u201cwhen working people stand together, organize and fight back, they can defeat establishment politicians and enormous amounts of money and political influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making progress. The task before us now is to build on that momentum,\u201d he continued, cautioning that \u201cif Democrats regain control of Congress next year, they must listen to the people who put them in office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, not all Democrats are impressed by the rise of socialism within their ranks.<\/p>\n

Read more Judge slams Trump, DOJ for deceptive behavior in IRS lawsuit, weaponization fund deal<\/a><\/p>\n

Democratic strategist James Carville, who worked for Bill Clinton, has accused the DSA of acting like a \u201cpariah\u201d force that is cannibalizing the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s such a powerful, sweeping movement that\u2019s got momentum everywhere, then go ahead and be at the head of it. Don\u2019t use the Democratic Party to advance it,\u201d Mr. Carville said.<\/p>\n

He blasted Mr. Sanders as an \u201cinsurgent\u201d who contributed to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s 2016 loss to Mr. Trump by dividing the Democratic Party, and he argued that the \u201cleft-wing idiots\u201d of today are similarly jeopardizing the Democratic Party\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n

Yet it is hard to deny that the energy and momentum within the Democratic Party appear to favor the DSA side, which has been painstakingly built by Mr. Sanders.<\/p>\n

Although party insiders were successful in pushing Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner aside because of a late-breaking sexual assault accusation, potential 2028 Democrat presidential contenders seem to understand which way the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently urged Democrats to embrace a \u201cbig tent\u201d approach and unite with DSA candidates, saying the Democratic Party should be in the \u201caddition, not subtraction\u201d business.<\/p>\n

Last month, Kamala Harris had a private phone call with Mr. Mamdani to discuss the future of the Democratic Party in an effort to connect with the DSA base and build future support. Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently traveled to Israel to blast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s politics at Tel Aviv University, as did Rep. Ro Khanna, California Democrat, who claims to have been blockaded by Israeli settlers and Israeli Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank, both seemingly embracing the DSA\u2019s anti-Israel foreign policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat DSA represents is a real contrast to Democrats who have run the last couple of elections on fear,\u201d DSA national co-chair Megan Romer told Politico in June. \u201cYou can\u2019t run on that. You have to offer an alternative. And it\u2019s really important that we be involved in that conversation in 2028. It\u2019s important that we have somebody saying sensible things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DSA is dispatching surveys to its chapters, which include more than 120,000 members, asking whom they want to back for president in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best possible thing that could happen is having a string of victories in the midterms and forcibly reshaping the way the national Democratic Party approaches some of these issues and having a much larger presence in the Democratic primary, and hopefully the presidential candidacy,\u201d said Hasan Piker, a DSA social media influencer.<\/p>\n

It seems Mr. Sanders\u2019 political revolution is happening, 10 years after his defeat to Mrs. Clinton.<\/p>\n

Read more Man with firearm arrested outside of U.S. Capitol<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Kelly Sadler is the commentary editor at The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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