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Sixty-four years after President John F. Kennedy called young Americans to public service, his grandson, internet loon Jack Schlossberg, may run for Congress in a bid to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in next year’s midterm election.
Young Schlossberg’s likely run shines a spotlight on the dilemma now haunting New York Democrats: The only potential candidates are hard-lefties, nepo babies, cranks and/or hacks.
For the last 30 years, Nadler has been the (ultra)liberal standard-bearer in blue New York.
He rose through the old-fashioned clubhouse ranks, albeit in the Upper West Side Dems’ reform wing; his handpicked successor comes out of the West Side Democratic Club: Assemblyman Micah Lasher.
Lasher, 43, is a complete political careerist, breaking in at 19 by managing Brad Hoylman’s City Council campaign, then staffing for Nadler, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Attorney General Eric Schniederman and Gov. Kathy Hochul in a left-center-left-center pingpong characteristic of a clubhouse hack — swapping sides on huge issues like charter schools as it seems to meet his ambitions.
In contrast, Schlossberg is a full-on obsessive social-media troll whose unhinged videos include one where he dons a wig to mock First lady Melania Trump.
Such antics have won him close to 1 million followers on Instagram, 834,000 on TikTok and many more on X, plus 17,000 YouTube subscribers — and enough of a profile that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has gone on his Jack’s Test Drive podcast.
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Other candidates rumored to be angling for Nadler’s seat include former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon — another nepo baby and an wealthy activist celeb — plus Liam Elkind, a 26-year-old “community organizer” from enough wealth to win awards as a philanthropist.
This unappetizing bunch seems to be the best that Upper West and East Side Democrats can offer.
Something’s gone badly wrong with the New York City party’s farm system; the only thing saving it now is the Republicans’ weakness: No wonder the Democratic Socialists are taking over.