It was 1987 and the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives was a moderate Texan named Jim Wright, the Senate Majority Leader was Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and socialism was a dirty word in the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.
This was the year San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi would begin her career in Congress, and for both her and her Democratic Party, we can definitely say: You’ve come a long way, honey.
Former Speaker Pelosi announced this week that she would not seek a 900th, or whatever it is, term in the House of Representatives, and at age 85 she is leaving a Democratic Party that has almost fully embraced socialism. She may be the biggest reason for that.
Speaker Pelosi rips up President Trump’s 2020 Stat of The Union speech. (Getty)
Under increasing pressure from the left, Pelosi’s hand-picked successor to the gavel of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., last month appointed a staunch socialist as mayor of his hometown of New York City in what appeared to be a hostage video.
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Many observers, including myself, have concluded that the Democrats have created a socialist monster that is now eating them, but in Pelosi’s case, things may be a little different. Maybe she’ll get the socialism she’s always wanted, just faster than she expected.
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her team of American socialists stormed into the House of Representatives in 2019, Pelosi did nothing to indicate that their Marxism was out of step with the party. Instead, she appeared on magazine covers with them.
Pelosi is praised by both parties for her ability to rule her conference with an iron fist and show no mercy to opposition, but in practice this clearly alienated moderate Democrats. In the case of New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew he became a Republican.
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There is no indication that Pelosi is angry because her party is now the Democratic Socialist Party, except in name. We can imagine former Republican Chairman John Boehner lamenting how the Tea Party and Trump conquered his party with a cigarette and a glass of red wine, but Pelosi seems very pleased.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi speaks during Nancy Pelosi Talks to Katie Couric on 92NY on October 24, 2024 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
The two most important Democrats of their generation are former President Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Both had famous photos with party icon President John F. Kennedy as teenagers, and each has a very different relationship with his legacy.
It was the last Southern Democrat Clinton who, in 1992, saved a party that had seriously lost touch with the nation by embracing the (then far-left) policies of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis.
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Pelosi’s relationship with JFK is very different. She ends her career as the liberal lion of San Francisco in a party that the staunch anti-communist Kennedy would not recognize as his own. For example, this was certainly a man who knew what a woman was.
To see where Pelosi, her party, her nation, and her district have ended up under her leadership, look no further than her likely successor, trans activist and socialist state Sen. Scott Wiener, who has argued that the sex offender registry should be shortened or eliminated because transgender people disproportionately end up on it for some reason.
It’s today’s Democratic Socialist party in a nutshell: Wiener is basically saying, “Sorry, we’d like to protect your children, but it might offend that man in a dress.”
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That is Nancy Pelosi’s legacy.
Despite the nascent and hopeful efforts of San Francisco’s somewhat sensible Mayor Daniel Lurie, Pelosi’s hometown has descended into an embarrassing spectacle of disorder, largely because of Democratic Socialist policies such as no bail, light policing, and ignoring public vagrancy and addiction.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pose for a photo in Astoria, Queens, September 6, 2025. (@ZohranKMamdani via X)
During her time in power, Pelosi has led one of the largest left-wing movements of any party, anywhere. When she first took the gavel in 2007, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was still against gay marriage (or at least said so) because of his deeply Christian beliefs. No Democrat in Congress today holds such beliefs.
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Choose an issue, any issue, from abortion to climate, from crime and punishment to freedom of speech. The Democrats have moved straight away from core American values ​​and switched to a big, open-to-all government in which the Mommy State always knows best.
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No, Pelosi is not a victim of the socialist coup that took over the Democrats. Andrew Cuomo does, and Senator Chuck Schumer certainly looks the part. But not Pelosi. Do you really think she is against free buses or government shops?
No, Nancy with the smiling face wanted this all along and it looks like the last laugh really is hers.
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