You know things have gotten bad inside the Democrat Party when its own members start booking segments on Fox News to torch one of their own. Not anonymously. Not through staffers leaking to Politico. Sitting members of Congress, on camera, using words like “clown” and “Hamas talking points” to describe a Democratic mayor. When the knives come out this publicly and this viciously, it’s not a disagreement. It’s a survival reflex.
And the reason is staring them right in the face. With President Trump in the White House and the midterms bearing down, Democrats are confronting an ugly truth: the far-left socialist wing of their party has become a political wrecking ball. Not an asset. Not an energizing force. A liability that’s dragging the entire brand into territory most American voters find repulsive — and one mayor in particular has become the symbol of everything going wrong.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) is “obsessed” with Israel “And he’s often parroting Hamas’s own talking points. It’s like they send him talking points in the morning and he just reads them from the podium.”
Gottheimer said, “Well, the Mayor’s clearly obsessed with this issue. He should probably be a little more obsessed with making sure that his city is running well and that he’s picking up the trash and fixing the potholes, but since he’s obsessed with this issue.”
A Democrat said that. Read it again.
A sitting Democratic congressman from New Jersey went on Fox News — not CNN, not some friendly podcast — to accuse the Democratic mayor of America’s largest city of reading Hamas’s mail every morning at the podium. That’s not a polite policy disagreement. That’s a political fragmentation grenade, and Gottheimer pulled the pin himself.
He wasn’t finished, either. Gottheimer hammered Mamdani for a grotesque double standard: dead silence while Iranian-backed forces kill American soldiers, but apparently enough interest in Tehran that someone on the mayor’s own staff reportedly sought meetings with the Iranian regime. Let that contrast land for a second. American servicemembers are coming home in caskets, and the mayor of New York is more curious about chatting with the people responsible than condemning them.
Meanwhile, the garbage is piling up and the potholes are multiplying. People who actually live in New York City might appreciate a mayor who governs like a mayor. Mamdani apparently thinks he’s running the State Department from City Hall.
He wasn’t the only Democrat sounding off
The night before Gottheimer’s appearance, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania showed up on Hannity — yes, Hannity — and delivered an even more scorching indictment. He called Mamdani a “clown” and a “freak show.” That’s language Democrats typically save for Republicans. Fetterman clearly didn’t care.
He mocked Mamdani’s theatrical threat to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, noting that a mayor can “fix a pothole” and “take out the trash” but can’t exactly issue international arrest warrants. Then came the most devastating line of the week. Fetterman looked into the camera and addressed Mamdani directly: “I know you’re angry at Netanyahu because he killed a lot of people you admire, whether, like, it’s Sinwar or Nasrallah or Khamenei in Iran.”
A Democrat. Publicly suggesting a Democratic mayor admires dead terrorists. On Fox News. That’s not criticism — that’s a political execution.
Fetterman went further, calling out the broader pattern of “freak shows winning primaries” who represent “hostile and intensely anti-Israel, really just raging antisemitism.” He wasn’t just targeting one mayor. He was indicting an entire movement within his own party — and practically begging voters to notice the distinction.
The real calculation behind the outrage
Nobody should mistake this for a sudden outbreak of principle. Democrats can read polls. They watched Trump broker a peace deal that returned hostages and fundamentally reshaped the Middle East conversation. The aggressively anti-Israel posture that thrilled progressive activists in 2020 is now electoral cyanide in 2026.
Democrats in competitive midterm districts understand the math. Figures like Mamdani fire up a narrow progressive base while repelling the moderates and independents who actually decide elections. Gottheimer and Fetterman aren’t experiencing moral awakenings. They’re running a midterm damage-control operation, and the Fox News appearances are deliberate — aimed squarely at swing voters who might otherwise punish every Democrat on the ballot for the sins of the party’s radical fringe.
They’re terrified that extremists like Mamdani are handing Republicans — and Trump — ammunition on a silver platter.
Conservative Americans should savor the spectacle of Democrats devouring their own. But keep your guard up. These people aren’t suddenly pro-America or pro-Israel. They’re pro-winning elections. When November 2026 arrives, judge them by their votes — not their Fox News auditions.
Key Takeaways
- Democrats Gottheimer and Fetterman publicly attacked Mamdani on Fox News, signaling deep party fracture.
- Gottheimer accused the NYC mayor of parroting Hamas talking points from the podium.
- Fetterman called Mamdani a “clown” who admires terrorists killed by Netanyahu.
- The coordinated attacks reveal midterm desperation, not genuine ideological change.
Sources: Breitbart
