Don’t you DARE ask a Democrat about what they said more than 20 minutes ago

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist gunning for Rep. Adriano Espaillat seat, wants you to know that her statements about erasing US borders, totally abolishing the “bastard” police, using the American flag as a rag, insisting Israel “doesn’t exist” and cursing black men and Arab men who marry “ugly” white women are irrelevant — simply because she didn’t say any of it this week.

That is, she won’t say she was wrong and explain why she’s changed her mind, or even confirm that she has changed her mind.

Avila Chevalier, you see, isn’t “interested in relitigating the politics” of social media posts she made way, way back in the mists of 2020 or 2022; that’s “the politics of the past.”

And asking her about her words of just 60 months ago reflects an “obsession” on the part of her critics; anyway, she has “grown considerably” in the five or six years since she said them.

Grown better, or worse? What does she believe on any of these issues now?

“Grown” obviously really means, I’ve learned not to speak my mind so plainly if I want to win office.

This is a common dodge among leftist pols, who build up radical cred by making inflammatory comments, only to later declare that radicalism is somehow no longer relevant.

And it’s not just obscure Manhattan communists who do this.

Running for president in 2019, Kamala Harris said she wanted to ban fracking, favored a universal government-run health system, wanted to decriminalize border crossing and demanded a mandatory federal buyback of “assault weapons.”

But five years later, suddenly Democrats’ presidential nominee, she had her staff announce she’d switch her stance on all these positions, even as she herself insisted, “My values have not changed.”

Hmm: If your beliefs change but your values don’t, maybe your only real value is saying whatever you think will get you elected.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, made and liked vicious comments on social media before she became famous; when that ugliness surfaced publicly, she let her husband wave it all off because she is a “private person” and the “love of his life.”

As if the public has no right to know what the mayor’s wife believes even after her hate speech is discovered: It’s probably only more critics “obsessed” with her.

Graham Platner, running for Senate in Maine, walked around for 18 years with an SS Death’s-head tattoo, which he brushes off as a youthful enthusiasm; his long history of disparaging the US military, cops, rural Mainers and rape victims is just “stupid joke comments” or a function of his PTSD.

And his dalliances on the predator-friendly Kik platform were a phase in an imperfect marriage . . . which doesn’t explain why his Kik profile was still active as of last weekend.

Politicians on the left hate being asked to explain themselves.

So they conveniently “explain” that the clock on their accountability was reset five minutes ago.

It may work with media figures who share the beliefs they no longer want to talk about; we’ll see how many voters buy it.