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The next mayor of the District of Columbia is likely to be a Marxist. In Los Angeles, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are battling it out for control. New York has already fallen to a champion of Third Worldism.
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And, for the first time in U.S. history, a significant bloc of Congress will openly hate the country it represents. We aren’t talking about anti-Americanism in an abstract or hyperbolic sense. The Zohran Mamdani slate that swept the Democratic Party primaries is explicit in its aim to dismantle the republic.
Members of Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the police, prisons, and borders and “seize the means of production,” as the future congresswoman from New York’s 11th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier, once argued. The co-founder of a group that called for “nothing short of the total collapse” of the “American empire” with the goal to “eradicate America” and “Western civilization,” Avila Chevalier doesn’t deny she’s a communist. And why should she?
There’s a temptation to dismiss and whitewash the rise of the socialists. We shouldn’t. Sure, the DSA is still constrained by the constitutional order, but they aren’t constrained by Democrats.
“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” Van Jones warned on CNN as he watched the New York primary results come in. “This is a battle between the establishment and this insurgency.”
What battle?
The establishment has surrendered to the DSA’s hostile takeover on every front. Establishment Democrats such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had the chance to sideline “Squad” members when they first appeared, yet the former speaker eventually coddled them, perched them on important committees, and appeared on magazine covers celebrating their ascendency.
If Democrats were unwilling to sideline illiberal bigots such as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) back then, what makes anyone think they’ll stand up to the socialists now?
Major Democrats virtually tripped over themselves to endorse Nazi SS tattoo man Graham Platner in Maine, who is a Mamdanite in all ways save the flannel shirt.
Democrats are about to send Adam Hamawy, a man who volunteered for an al Qaeda front and spent years being friends with “The Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman, to Congress. Other than a gaggle of outsiders such as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), already on the outs with his party, there is barely a hint of pushback. Indeed, there is support.
“One of the things that makes the Democratic Party great is it’s a big tent party,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said of socialists who explicitly demand the overturn of Article I of the Constitution. “We need to stay that way.”
Democratic voters, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, “choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us, and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.”
One supposes that if a person already supports abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court, supporting the eradication of all checks and balances isn’t much of a jump.
No one Democrat is stopping the DSA.
It’s not implausible that many more Democrats in urban areas will lose their seats to the well-funded socialist candidates. That includes Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). At the very least, Jeffries and others will be compelled to move even farther left to pacify the DSA and save their seats. Considering the spinelessness of the “establishment,” we can expect Democrats to embrace a widening array of Marxist policy ideas.
Some analysts point out that the primary voters for the Mamdani slate were largely high-earning, young, non-native New York voters, not the working class, immigrants, or rank-and-file voters. It’s true that only 7% of voters supported Avila Chevalier over establishment Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY). The New York primary featured an overall low turnout of around 17% of Democratic voters citywide.
Marxists are most often over-credentialed bourgeois with savior complexes. The Bolsheviks were only a small faction in revolutionary Russia. Until they weren’t.
On the other hand, all energy on the Left is with the anti-American faction. And according to Gallup, 66% of Democrats hold a positive view of socialism. The younger you are, the more you lean toward collectivist ideas. An Axios-Generation Lab poll found 67% of college students hold a positive or neutral association with socialism, compared to only 40% with capitalism.
What do we expect after decades of cultural and academic attacks on free enterprise, liberty, and American history?
The outlook of immigrants is not much better. According to one poll, Mamdani won 62% of foreign-born voters in his mayoral race. Another poll found that Mamdani won 81% of the vote of people who were in New York for fewer than 10 years. Mamdani won something like 90% of Muslim votes.
We can extrapolate from that race that socialists are importing Third World ideas that appeal to unassimilated newcomers, one of the most popular being Jew hatred.
The Mamdanites fulminate and obsess over Israel so often you’d think they were running on the Hamas slate in the Gaza Strip.
One day after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, raping, torturing, and kidnapping, before the Jewish state had even identified the bodies or retaliated, Chevalier was seen wearing a keffiyeh and celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
There is no “Free Palestine” activist in the United States who doesn’t also hate America.
And the depravity isn’t unexpected. The contemporary DSA shares an ideological kinship with Soviet-created Third Worldism that was prevalent in Africa and Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. Nonetheless conspicuous than “anti-Zionism,” the omni-cause that not only allows progressives to rant against “colonialism,” “imperialism,” “whiteness,” “capitalism,” “genocide,” and an array of other Marxist hobbyhorses, but to traffic in one of the world’s oldest hatreds.
Jews, obviously, can be part of the DSA movement if they abandon their culture and faith. Take the 10th Congressional District’s newest nominee, former DSA member Brad Lander, who visited a mosque of a Holocaust-denying Hamas-praising sheik and recited a chapter from the Quran in submission.
Meanwhile, his opponent, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), a loyal hard-left partisan foot soldier of Democratic Party, was the focus of the antisemitic smears, discrimination, and vandalism.
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There has always been radicalism on the American Left. But Democrats didn’t invite Black Panthers or Weather Underground into their party in the 1970s.
In the 2020s, however, Democrats invited communists into their party. Now the communists are taking over.
