DAVID MARCUS: Meet the Five Families of the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is simply a precise aged and venerable institution, and arsenic such, it has a batch of rules, a batch of buffers, and yes, this happening of theirs, it has centers of power. You mightiness adjacent telephone them families.

Now, these families, truthful to speak, they aren’t astatine warfare with each other, astatine slightest not usually, but they bash person their ain interests and priorities, and sometimes conflicts bash arise. To genuinely recognize the party, and wherever it is going, you person to recognize the Five Families that pb it.

From left: Nancy Pelosi, Tim Walz, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, and Jim Clyburn. (Getty Images)

So, let's instrumentality a look, 1 by one. Which crews are successful ascendency? Which are successful chaos? And what volition it mean for the enactment arsenic it seeks to instrumentality Congress and the White House, and enactment each bureau successful the state close successful its backmost pocket?

San FranciscoBoss: Nancy Pelosi. Capos: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom

Over the past respective years, Nancy ‘The Gavel’ Pelosi has positioned the San Francisco family, erstwhile a fringe backwater, into the astir almighty of the five. Not lone did Pelosi whack the second-term ambitions of the party’s aged boss, Joey ‘Naps’ Biden, but she hand-selected Frisco’s ain Kamala ‘Cackles’ Harris to regenerate him.

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi built the California helping of the Democratic Party into a powerhouse. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Old Lady Pelosi mightiness not beryllium talker of the House anymore, but who bash we find starring the statesmanlike superior polling contiguous successful the party? Why, nary different than Gavin "The Peacock" Newsom, different San Francisco treat, and a testament to its family’s outsized power. While the household has traditionally been the party’s astir left-leaning, that rubric faces a situation from the bluish family.

Minneapolis Boss: Tim WalzCapos: Ilhan Omar, Jacon Frey, Keith Ellison

The Minneapolis family, led by Tim ‘Whitey’ Walz — an highly bully earner arsenic we are uncovering retired each time — is 1 that is surpassing San Francisco’s legendary leftism. Ilhan "The Inlaw" Omar is the champion example. Her governmental imaginativeness is 1 of reparations, whereby done legislation, oregon sometimes, you know,  conscionable graft, wealth goes from native-born Americans to migrant groups similar Minnesota’s Somali assemblage who volition not assimilate.

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Key to the cognition of the Minneapolis household is Mayor Jacob ‘The Kneeler’ Frey, adjacent though helium astir got knocked disconnected successful the caller predetermination by 1 the precise Somali politicians helium regularly panders to. Frey’s main occupation is to exemplify for White Minnesotans and Americans astatine ample wherefore their civilization should beryllium abandoned and replaced by the blessings of third-world corruption. This household is small, for now, but precise dangerous.

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New YorkBoss: Chuck Schumer?Capos: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Zorhan Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries

There is nary household with much past oregon much existent governmental powerfulness successful Washington than New York, and yet, it finds itself successful chaos. Even with Chuckie ‘5 term’ Schumer successful complaint of Senate Democrats, and Hakeem ‘The Scheme’ Jeffries moving the enactment successful the House, it is the younger Capos making a determination connected that power.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talk connected Capitol Hill connected Aug. 3, 2025.  (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Alexandria ‘The Face’ Ocasio-Cortez has assembled a socialist crew, headed up by caller Mayor-Elect Zohran ‘Smiley’ Mamdani, that is sweeping up elections near and close adjacent arsenic Schumer and Jeffries effort to support to their proteges similar Dan ‘Rich Boy’ Goldman from superior defeats. One cardinal constituent of hostility is Israel, which ever makes wealth for its partners, but rubs the up-and-comers the incorrect way.

ChicagoBoss: Barack ObamaCapos: JB Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel

In mean times, Barack ‘Barry’ Obama would beryllium the nationalist brag of bosses arsenic the erstwhile two-time president, but his grasp connected the enactment seems to beryllium waning these days. This is successful ample portion due to the fact that ‘Barry’s’ Chicago-style enactment traditionally masks its far-left ambitions with a look of moderation. This is precisely what Rahm ‘The Suit’ Emanuel is trying to be. The occupation is that enactment voters don’t privation a socialist successful bankers’ covering anymore, they conscionable privation a socialist.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has enactment President Donald Trump successful his proverbial crosshairs earlier connected societal media arsenic well. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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This is precisely wherefore we spot JB ‘Double Cheeseburger’ Pritzker making his determination into nationalist prominence by being a pebble successful the footwear of President Donald Trump whenever and wherever helium can. 

South CarolinaBoss: James Clyburn

Despite the shifting winds successful the enactment crossed the country, the South Carolina family, with its long-serving brag Jim ‘The Kingmaker’ Clyburn, inactive plays by the old-school rules, and is looking to grow its power.

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The Kingmaker wants his Palmetto State superior to instrumentality retired Iowa and New Hampshire and go the party’s archetypal successful the nation, giving his family, possibly the astir mean of the 5 now, an adjacent bigger accidental successful choosing the adjacent capo dei capi to tally for the White House connected the enactment ticket.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina and president of the House Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Crisis, during a proceeding successful Washington, D.C., US, connected Thursday, June 23, 2022. The committee released a study this week connected the power a imaginable herd immunity strategy had connected the Trump Administration's pandemic effect policies. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images  (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Clyburn has checked the statesmanlike ambitions of socialist Bernie ‘The Mittens’ Sanders respective times now, but volition helium beryllium capable to clasp disconnected the adjacent procreation of Sandernistas? Only time, arsenic they say, volition tell.

Over the adjacent 2 years, the Five Families volition spell to the mattresses to support their involvement successful the nationalist party. But lone 1 volition nutrient a statesmanlike nominee with the accidental to marque American voters an connection they can’t refuse.