Never mind the warnings about the alarming fanaticism of Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is running for Congress from New York as a Democrat. It turns out that the views she has expressed up to now are no longer relevant.
The New York Post explains why:
Chevalier, the Democratic socialist gunning for Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s seat, wants you to know that her statements about erasing US borders, totally abolishing the “bastard” police, using the American flag as a rag, insisting Israel “doesn’t exist” and cursing black men and Arab men who marry “ugly” white women are irrelevant — simply because she didn’t say any of it this week.
It isn’t that she has changed her mind. It’s just that everything she has said that exposes her as a malevolent radical is “the politics of the past.” Also, she has recently “grown considerably.”
“Grown” obviously really means, I’ve learned not to speak my mind so plainly if I want to win office.
She isn’t the only one.
This is a common dodge among leftist pols, who build up radical cred by making inflammatory comments, only to later declare that radicalism is somehow no longer relevant.
For example,
Running for president in 2019, Kamala Harris said she wanted to ban fracking, favored a government-run universal health system, wanted to decriminalize border crossing and demanded a mandatory federal buyback of “assault weapons.”
“Assault weapons” are those weapons Democrats feel they have the political leverage to confiscate at a particular point in time.
Another example springs to mind:
Graham Platner, running for US Senate in Maine, walked around for 18 years with a Nazi SS death’s-head tattoo, which he brushes off as a youthful enthusiasm; his long history of disparaging the US military, cops, rural Mainers and rape victims is just “stupid joke comments” or a function of his PTSD.
And his dalliances on the predator-friendly Kik platform were a phase in an imperfect marriage … which doesn’t explain why his Kik profile was still active as of last weekend.
So long as the Kik profile is down before election day, that too is “the politics of the past” — like Chevalier characteristically siding with Russia against the USA:
Mamdani-backed House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier refused to answer for her past social media posts echoing Putin talking points over the Ukraine war, claiming US bullied Russia into invading.
"I'm not sure about the context of those tweets where they are coming from." pic.twitter.com/cncETCjaRh
— Craig McCarthy (@createcraig) June 5, 2026
The only way to know for sure whether up and coming Democrats (e.g., Chevalier, Manny Rutinel, Chris Rabb, James Talarico, Mai Vang, Brad Lander, Graham Platner, Maureen Galindo, Shelby Campbell, Raymond Chandler) are who they have been up to now is to give them power over us. But that would not be advisable.
On a tip from FighttheBeast.