Ex-‘Squad’ Rep. Jamaal Bowman whines in cringey video he wasn’t interviewed about DSA as Dem rift grows

He keeps setting off alarms.

Former “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman epically whined Monday that the New York Times didn’t interview him for an article detailing black and Latino leaders’ fears that the Democratic Socialists of America is erasing minority voices.

The DSA diehard posted a cringey X video contending the report — which inspired fellow black pol Queens Borough President Donovan Richards to approvingly quip that the DSA is “white supremacy” — instead elevated a Democratic establishment lobbyist over him.

“Am I not a black leader in the community?” he moaned, launching into a nearly two-minute tirade over his supposed worthiness for a Gray Lady interview.

Bowman — who lost a 2024 re-election bid after he infamously yanked a fire alarm in a Capitol office building — closed his rant by acknowledging the growing political divide between establishment Dems and the DSA.

But while Bowman contended the DSA stands for working-class voters, many of his fellow black pols, as well as Latino leaders, view the largely lily-white lefty faction with a mix of skepticism and outright alarm.

The consternation boiled over after Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed DSA congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez in June’s Democratic primary over incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, pols with proven track records and minority backgrounds.

Mamdani’s picks won, stoking chatter that the DSA is pushing the Democrats so far left that even progressives aren’t safe.

Insiders told The Post a number of other black and minority background leaders were elated over Richards, a liberal Democrat, taking aim at the majority white group’s racial blind spot.

Even though the group endorses diverse slates, the candidates are rarely from the neighborhood and are little more than mouthpieces for the group, insiders said.

“Donovan Richards was heroic,” said David Paterson, the moderate black former governor and onetime state Democratic Party chair. “It was a needed wake up call for the Democratic Party.

“The Democratic socialists’ credo is to take over neighborhoods represented by black and Latino leaders.”

The DSA’s membership is roughly 85% white, according to a 2021 — although many of its most prominent elected officials, including Mamdani, come from minority backgrounds.

Establishment state Democrats are largely led by black pols, such as Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Attorney General Letitia James.

James recently accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of blowing up the party with his endorsements of DSA congressional candidates over establishment and progressive pols.

“Some of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic,” James told CNN. 

“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.”

And if Democrats prevail in the midterm congressional election, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) is poised to become the first black Speaker of the House.

Many DSA members, however, have called for Jeffries’ ouster.

Black and Latino politicos not under the DSA’s spell have grumbled that Mamdani ignores their communities.

The fresh-faced mayor angered Latino leaders by going back on a promise to endorse Espaillat.

His first city budget also included a massive amount of cuts to poor black and brown communities, leading Councilwoman Althea Stevens (D-Bronx) to vote against it.

“Equity cannot simply be a word we use in speeches or campaign slogans,” Stevens, who is black, said at the time. “Equity means directing resources where the needs are greatest.”