Congressmen start acting more deranged as they near retirement. Voluntary or forced retirement.

In Rep. Nadler’s case, it’s pretty definitely a forced retirement. The senility purge had already ousted him from a leadership position and in a New York Dem party where being Jewish and doing anything less than supporting Hamas was seen as a problem, Nadler’s recent anti-Israel tantrums still weren’t good enough.

Now he’s going to be stepping down at the tender young age of 78. You may scoff, but for a longtime incumbent with seniority in Congress, 78 is the new 48, and Nadler probably had another decade in him before he began really melting down or had to be reminded every 5 minutes where he was.

Nadler claims that he’s retiring because he “respects” the need for “generational change” which is to say, he’s retiring before they push him down a staircase and forcibly retire him. The DSA is no doubt salivating over the prospect of replacing Nadler with a new Squad member who will be more openly pro-Oct 7.

Nadler’s District 12 encompasses much of the habitable parts of Manhattan. (New Yorkers will get it.) It’s a district where any Dem with a pulse (or without one) would win by a massive margin as witnessed by Nadler’s previous 80% wins. In the past this was seen as a somewhat Jewish district, but border and demographic changes have changed all that.

We won’t have Nadler to kick around anymore, but as usual the alternative will be worse.