Congressman Jamaal Bowman lost to George Latimer in NY-16. Actually, Latimer crushed Bowman. People not on the left fringe of the Democratic Party see this as the ousting of one of their crazies, the sort of person who would pull a fire alarm to stall a vote, align so closely with Hamas as to compel the far left J Street to withdraw its endorsement and engage in a profanity laden tirade with AOC and Bernie Sanders at hand in the South Bronx, outside his district.

The left wing of the Dems, on the other hand, sees this as the product of AIPAC’s spending more than $14 million to oust Bowman.

A super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby, dumped $15 million into defeating him, more than any outside group has ever spent on a House race.

Of course, Bowman was down 17 points before any commercial by AIPAC was aired. Still, the left sees this as Israel buying the election to silence Bowman for siding with Palestinians. Then again, doesn’t every PAC become involved in support of the candidate it favors, even if the money this time was bigger than ever?

When it became clear that Bowman, with whom neither AIPAC nor his Westchester County constituents shared many positions, was vulnerable, they went in whole hog for his adversary. An incumbent congressman doesn’t get ousted, no matter how much money is spent, if his constituents support him. Bowman may have represented the Squad, but he did not represent his constituents.

Bringing down a card-carrying member of the Squad may be a sign that the Democratic Party is coming to the realization that its majority are moderate and liberal, not bomb throwing progressive radicals demanding a revolution. Or it may mean nothing more than the fact that Bowman rode into office on a wave of post-George Floyd white guilt and his pro-Hamas stance in a district that was 9% Jewish was never going to fly. Or that his pulling a fire alarm and then lying about it reflected some serious character flaw.

Or, they had enough of Bowman, the radical, because liberals and progressives are in direct conflict and cannot co-exist in the same political party.

Is nature healing or did Bowman just blow it? If the Dems were able to oust their crazies from the party, take more moderate and rational positions without pandering to their worst left bomb throwers, would there be far less support for an alternative to the Dems to prevent the spread of woke?

But then, is there any hope for a generation of identity politics radical authoritarians? Will they grow up and out of it? Will they be the future of the Democratic Party, empowering their opposites and pushing normies away from their radical plans?

Whatever the sense that comes from Bowman’s crushing defeat, there remains a core group of the Squad in office and a loud and vicious group of young people bent on doing as much damage to society as possible in furtherance of their causes, which must be won by any means possible. Time will tell, and it may not tell us what we hope to hear.