I've been a Democrat my whole life — until I walked away in 2021, because it was a Democratic administration that turned America evil, and that turned my own life unconstitutionally upside down.

I have never looked back, except to marvel at how, day by day, policy by policy, today's DNC seems ever more determined to destroy its party's storied legacy, as well as its own ability ever to win another race.

The DNC is pursuing a wholesale, wrecking-ball destruction of everything that made people want to vote Democratic in the first place, and to send money to Democratic candidates. It trashes its heritage of speaking up for marginalized groups; for the concerns of communities of color; for unionized workers; for cops and teachers and firefighters; for ordinary Americans who struggle to pay bills; people who, as Democratic candidate and later President Bill Clinton used to say, "work hard and play by the rules."

How a party can burn up so visibly, and so readily, so much of what we used to call "political capital"?

There is a revolution brewing in New York City and its boroughs, and it just may show a shift that can transform the nation.

New leaders are arising, who simply cannot call themselves Democrats.

This is due to self-inflicted wounds by that party, in the form of lunatic and corrupt policies, and critical abandonments from 2021-present.

Lunatic polices? Here are some:

Support the rights of gay and lesbian people, and of other sexual minorities, not to face legal discrimination? Sure; that is a no-brainer. Take that consensus to a bizarre new level, and insist on interjecting biological males into women's sports, endangering women physically and destroying Title 9 protections; then place biological males into female spaces such as bathrooms and changing rooms, prisons and mental institutions?

Who thought that that policy would have widespread support? What percent of the electorate has that deliverable at the top of its list?

Speak up for legal immigrants to be treated as fairly as anyone else? Absolutely. Those are traditional Democratic values. But champion the ingress to our nation of 15-30 million people who broke our laws in order to be here, and then shower ostentatious benefits upon them — ranging from cash cards to four star midtown NYC hotel stays — that our American elders and veterans and single parents can never afford for themselves?

How can the advisors sitting around the Democratic campaign tables, not game out what we used to call the "optics" of that situation? How does that help any Democrat run and win?