Voters deliver lessons on a return to normalcy
Jamaal Bowman’s ignominious defeat in the Democratic primary in New York last night marked the first incumbent to go down this cycle — an indication that voters have, in 2024, had enough of a certain type of crazy. It is impossible to list the amount of crazy Bowman has injected into American politics in his brief stint on Capitol Hill, but perhaps more impossible is the list created by the next Squad member on the target list: Missouri’s Cori Bush, who literally did an interview where she talked about her ability to heal cancer with her hands. If the Squad were interested in being an enduring faction instead of a brief, loud, social-media driven phenomenon, they certainly have picked the wrong people for the job.
