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On Tuesday, three candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the United States House of Representatives representing New York City districts swept to victory in their respective primaries. This did not sit well with James Carville, co-hosting his regular podcast with very veteran journalist Al  Hunt. And

“I have the quote right here, I’ll get to it. She has attacked interracial relationships and the American flag. Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you. I’m sorry,” Carville said. “I’m just not, and I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk ‘the S-word.’ ‘Schism.’ I really do.”

“Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no, we’re coalition. We’re a big tent,’” he said. “And there’s some – there’s just some s— that I can’t be in the same tent with.”

Carville suggested that many of the recent far-left candidates do not actually like the Democratic Party, but are nonetheless running as Democrats, and proposed, “Let’s negotiate a terms of a schism here. Maybe we can part under some kind of advantageous terms for both of us, but I’m done. And I’m not in that f—ing political party.”

In turn, this sort of thing did not sit well with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York:

AOC: I actually think the more important advice that I would give would be to my incumbent colleagues, which is: you will create a self-fulfilling prophecy by deciding who these young women are before you’ve met them.

And if you are already panicking and sending little messages… pic.twitter.com/xj8CN0xE7F

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 27, 2026

Which of these individuals is correct.... or are they both wrong? One of the two candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier, is a 32-year-old investiagor at a public defender's office in NYC and doctoral student. She also is different than the other two. Three weeks before the primary, CNN revealed that it had undertaken a

review of hundreds of deleted posts and reposts found ones that called for abolishing police, prisons and borders; tweets about communism; calls for open borders and zero deportations; and expletive-laden attacks on Democrats….

In a statement to CNN, Avila Chevalier said the posts did not reflect who she is today and accused Espaillat of trying to distract from issues facing the district. Three weeks before the primary, CNN reported that it had undertaken a "review of hundreds of deleted posts and reposts (and) found ones that called for abolishing police, prisons and bordrs, tweets about communism, calls for open borders and zero deportations, and expletive-laden attacks on Democrats."  In response, Avila Chevalier explained "I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets and I am focused on our community and our community's future"...

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine saved more than 3,600 tweets from Avila Chevalier’s account between 2018–2022. It’s unclear when the account was deleted but the last archived tweet is from May 2022.

In August 2020, Avila Chevalier reposted a tweet responding to a social media prompt that asked, “Israel suddenly disappears, your third emoji is your reaction.” The reposted tweet replied, “Trick question – Israel doesn’t exist!”

“A world without borders—just like a world without prisons or police—is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward,” read one deleted repost from September 2021.

During a three-day period in September 2021, Avila Chevalier also reposted now-deleted messages declaring, “Yes, literally, abolish the border” and that “all deportation is wrong.”

Her Twitter profile biography also at one point included the phrase “how communist of you,” the hashtags “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#FreePalestine,” and described her location as “Occupied Lenape Land” and later “Lenapehoking (NYC)” — an acknowledgment to Indigenous claims to New York City….

During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Avila Chevalier reposted a message calling for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the economy. The repost advocated nationalizing utilities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies; suspending rent and mortgage payments; dissolving private health insurance companies; and “seiz[ing] all properties from landlords.”

Other deleted posts and reposts included references to communism and anti-capitalist politics. In one April 2020 post, Avila Chevalier wrote that while most of the political theory she had read was communist, “the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me,” adding a laughing emoji.

“Seize the means of production,” she wrote in a since-deleted 2019 post, the phrase commonly associated with Marxism.

The deleted posts also included repeated calls for abolishing police.

During the nationwide protests in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd, Avila Chevalier responded to a user asking what a better slogan would be than “defund the police,” by posting, “F**k you. We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements.”

Two days later, Avila Chevalier rejected an argument that abolishing police meant ending policing only “as we know it.”

“No. It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” she replied, adding several clap emojis.

In another deleted post, she captioned a selfie showing her wearing a face mask with the slogan “Defund Police.”

“Felt cute. F**k 12,” she wrote, referring to a slang word for the police.

She also reposted a message stating, “In New York they don’t say ‘I love you,’ they say ‘NYPD suck my dick’ and I think that’s beautiful.”

In another repost from 2021 she shared a message declaring that “ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM,” an Arabic term used in Islam to describe something that is forbidden. Avila Chevalier is a Muslim-convert.

The deleted posts also reflected hostility toward prominent Democrats couched in profane terms after Bernie Sanders ended his 2020 presidential campaign.

“This is for 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐍𝐂 u big 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 white nasty 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨 bitch why u took 𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞 off the muhfuckin 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 with ur trifflin dirty 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 ass u 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 ass bitc,” read an April 2020 repost.

“I have no nuance to add. Fuck Kamala Harris,” she posted after Harris told Guatemalan migrants in September 2021 not to come to the United States illegally.

Lovely. Of course, Carville is wrong to recommend that the Democratic Party and some of these more outrageous candidates "negotiate a terms of schism." That would, obviously, result in Republicans being elected almost everywhere. 

But there is a way around this. Hunt (at 6:54 of the podcast) told Carville "They are a great gift to Donald Trump and, uh, unless other Democrats stand up, certainly people like Obama but also some of the younger Democrats, to say "this is not us...."

As he obviously realizes, it wouldn't help much for Carville and other veterans of the Democratic establishment to explain that much of vile invective is going to offend a great many voters. Barack Obama, who for some reason, remains extremely popular with Democrats, and the relatively young figures in the party do need to "stand up."

Reading out all the progressives- or even most- in the party is unnecessary and unhelpful. Hunt and Carville themselves cite Ocasio-Cortez as a reasonable figure, though that was before the congresswoman made it clear she believes that if candidates are "young women,"  all manner of wacky, hateful rhetoric is excused, even celebrated.

The worst offender, Darializa Avila Chevalier may herself deserve a little grace.  On 12/23/19, she boasted on Twitter "I forgot to get napkins so I wiped my hands on the Amrican flag before me."  To her, we should wish "Happy Independence Day!"

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