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The front page, top of the fold headline in the Hartford Courant reads, “Dam breaks in primary field.”

U.S. Representative John Larson, who has held Connecticut’s First District since 1999, is being besieged by Democrat primary challengers, among them former mayor of Harford Luke Bronin, regarded by most serious political commentators as Larson’s most serious challenger.

The First District has been in Democratic hands without interruption since 1957, and for all but six years since 1931. For the mathematically challenged, that is a span of 94 years. The 1^st District castle, it would appear, is impregnable to Republican Party assault.

Chris Powell, longtime managing editor and editorial page editor of the once independent Journal Inquirer, now retired from the paper, pops the relevant question: Why now?

“In the 2nd District, eastern Connecticut, Kyle Gauck of East Hampton, another unknown, wants to wrest the Democratic nomination from U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney,” Powell writes. “In the 3rd District, the New Haven area, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is being challenged for another Democratic nomination by a lawyer from the city, Damjan DeNoble.”

“Why?”

Larson, after all, is festooned with hard won political power. He is anti-President Donald Trump, a backslapper, fairly articulate, a longtime harvester in the Democrat political vineyard, and not opposed to his party’s recent lurch to the left. If he has a problem with New York City Democrat primary victor Zohran Mamdani, supposed by some to be a fashionable updated Marxist, Larson is keeping his objections close to his vest. Most recently Larson said that Mamdani’s mayoral Democrat primary victory in New York City – with its focus on affordability – has enlivened his own reelection campaign.

Both claim they are making life more affordable for the struggling masses in different ways: Larson by preventing the piratical billionaire Trump from reducing Medicare costs, and Mamdani through price controls and seizing “the means of production” from greedy capitalists.

Trump and the Republicans claim they are restoring the original mission of Medicare, a program designed initially to assist those who cannot help themselves. Medicare, suffering from program sprawl, has become cost prohibitive as redesigned and broadened following the Barack Obama administration. Grandma, they insist, will not be thrown off the cliff. Neither Larson nor Mandani seem overly concerned with deficit spending or frequent tax grabs by greedy politicians. And neither appears willing to share with their constituents the true cause of inflation, a political move to avoid troublesome tax increases through excessive borrowing and devaluating the purchasing power of hard currency by flooding the country with printed funny money.

Party structures grown old in a one party state such as Connecticut tend toward ossification and stasis. A disturbance in any part of the political organism affects all members of the party. Even a mild change within a brittle party structure threatens the whole settled political organism. Successful parties mark time in place and eventually become victims of their own successes. In true authoritarian structures – Hitler’s Nazi socialist party, itler’s Hitlers Nazi

Mussolini’s fascist socialist party, Stalin’s communist socialist party – change and dissent cannot be permitted. Once you have captured the castle, you must defend it against all assaults, however mild.

Against the socialist winds now blowing through the Democrat Party in California, New York and many of the nation’s largest cities, all Democrat sinecures, both Lamont and Larson are very thin reeds. The latest Democrat Sir Lancelot in New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is a smiling, bearded, charismatic socialist whose central campaign plank has been torn from the pastes of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin. The banner under which Russian communism, the perfection of socialism, has marched since Marx wrote Das Kapital is that communism will have succeeded the world over when the party of forward motion has “seized the means of production,” something, beginning with baby steps, Mamdani has said he hopes to effectuate as mayor of the city that gave birth to Wall Street.

Historically, communism and Nazism are both logical and evolutionary products of socialist parties whose leaders have historically been articulate, charismatic and vicious, all of whom have violently seized both political power and “the means production.”

When should leaders of the Democrat Party on both U.S. coasts – coastal neo-progressives -- begin to defend their castle from an unremitting assault by socialists, a doctrine pretty on paper that in practice has led ineluctably to a shabby, liberty denying Gulag Archipelago.

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