What does that new “face” of the party look like? It looks like Darializa Avila Chevalier, a communist who has spent nearly the past decade and a half as a professional student. Is calling her a communist a smear?  

When asked on MS Now to dispel that claim, Chevalier demurred. She did not deny her communism. She instead uncorked a buzzword salad, concluding with, “For far too long, this reactive conversation of what we should be afraid of has prevented us from being able to have a politics … Democrats can actually identify with.”

Why would she disclaim or disavow communism? After all, this is a woman who tweeted a call to “seize the means of production,” demanded the nationalization of utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, and has insisted upon the abolishment of private health insurance.  

She’s tweeted a lot of things. For instance, in response to a fellow leftist gently suggesting “defund the police” is a counter-productive slogan, she shot back, “f*** you. We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements.” 

The Muslim convert called the United States a “f***ing disgrace,” separately boasting about the time she “forgot to get napkins, so I just wiped my hands on the American flag behind me,” adding a smiley emoji for effect.  

On immigration, Chevalier manages to go well beyond the Democrats’ faddish new “abolish ICE” standard, which stands to the left of their previous and disastrous open borders, anti-enforcement policy posture. She amplified a post stating, “yes, literally, abolish the border,” also endorsing a message that “all deportation is wrong.”  

Asked recently whether she still believes all deportations are unacceptable, even for illegal immigrants who are convicted violent felons, she confirmed that as her stance. She doesn’t seem to believe in the enforcement of laws at all. She’s embraced “ending policing, full stop, period,” which means “no more police at all ever.” Clap emojis emphasized her point.  

She’s a “prison abolitionist” (part and parcel of her police abolition goal) who was invited four times by the New York Editorial Board substack to say whether she thinks convicted murderers should end up behind bars. Four times, she refused. When she says “we’re gonna defund and abolish,” she means it, just as she means the “f*** you.”  

Lest there be any confusion, she’s the co-founder of an organization called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, whose written-down objectives include “the total eradication of Western civilization.” 

They welcomed “instruction from militants in the Global South.” CUAD partnered with Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-terrorism hate group, which announced its goal of “the total collapse of … American empire itself,” according to the Columbia Spectator.  

It’s little wonder Chevalier was in the streets of New York on Oct. 8, 2023, effectively celebrating Hamas’ still-ongoing massacre. Offered multiple opportunities to condemn the group or the mass-casualty terrorist attack, she has repeatedly declined. Chevalier is so “progressive” that she’s criticized interracial relationships, complaining that black and Arab men fetishize “ugly colonizer women.” The reality is that campus SJP agitators are graduating into Democratic Socialists of America activists, and they’re making their intentions crystal clear: a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party.

Mamdani is well aware of all of it. None of her unreformed, third-worldist, anti-American lunacy was a deal-breaker for him as he bestowed, then stood behind, his endorsement. Indeed, it’s a feature, not a bug. These candidates aim to inflict a catastrophic, chronically failed economic system upon the country.  

They’re trying to do so while expressing open disdain, if not outright contempt, for the United States. This represents, at best, a post-American, left-wing vision for the country. More realistically, it’s a movement that indulges or celebrates vile hatred of America (indeed, CNN has turned up more deleted social media posts of Chevalier praising Marxist and communist leaders).  

If this sounds hyperbolic or slanderous, re-read the quotes above. The woman whom Mamdani is “ready” to affirm as the fresh face of the Democratic Party has not hidden her views. Nor has another Mamdandi-backed congressional nominee in New York City, Claire Valdez, who is in lockstep with virtually all of Chevalier’s extremist views. 

She commemorated America’s 250th birthday over the weekend with this message (emphasis mine):

“Freedom is only possible when we have the conditions for the good life — healthcare, housing, education, and dignity on the job. But the system is rigged and our planet poisoned by billionaires, bosses, and war profiteers. This Fourth of July, we recommit ourselves to remaking it. To fight for liberation from Palestine to Puerto Rico, for a Green New Deal, for the world we deserve.”

She made the Fourth of July — this Fourth of July — about Palestine.  

Let’s also discuss the straws-grasping argument some relatively mainstream Democrats are advancing in the face of all of this, perhaps as a means of assuaging their own angst over this radical movement consuming their party. As the spin goes, while some of these primary election results may be alarming, they’re confined to deep-blue areas. 

But is that true? An extremist candidate with this ideology is leading in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in purple Michigan. The party’s wildly flawed U.S. Senate nominee in Maine also comes from the far Left, having beaten the party establishment’s pick, the incumbent governor, like a drum. And in Colorado, a reliably progressive and reflexively partisan Democratic congresswoman was decisively ousted in her primary late last month. She wasn’t a full-blown socialist, you see, so she had to go. Worse still, she believes in Israel’s right to exist. Down she went.  

The woman who defeated her, Melat Kiros, recently said Hamas’ mass murder of Oct. 7 was “the inevitable consequence of apartheid.” When asked if 9/11 was similarly “inevitable” due to U.S. foreign policy, she agreed with the premise. (This was somehow a less repugnant reply than a comment from a separate Mamdani-endorsed state Senate candidate in New York, who called 9/11 a “manifestation” of America’s “system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy and Islamophobia.” She won her primary.)  

In the same interview, Kiros was asked whether she’d affirm that the jihadist who firebombed Jews in Kiros’ state, as they held a vigil for the hostages being held in Gaza at the time, had engaged in an antisemitic attack. She declined to do so.  

“I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator … I don’t know what his intentions were,” she said of the “Allahu Akbar”-shouting Islamist whose assault killed a Holocaust survivor. It’s not just New York. This cancerous ideology is spreading elsewhere, too.

‘YOU’RE NEXT!’ THE LEFT’S 2016 MOMENT

I’ll leave you with a juxtaposition of two quotes, each from the same source: The dirtbag Left’s spiritual leader and leading intellectual, streamer Hasan Piker, who endorsed all of the aforementioned women and directly campaigned for several of them.  

Quotation one, from primary night in late June: “I wish they’d stop calling me a terrorist. That’s what I wish. I wish they’d stop calling me a radical. None of these people are radical. They just want healthcare. They want to end American militarism. They want to spend money on roads, infrastructure, on schooling, on healthcare, rather than bombs overseas … We have to heal this nation.” 

Quotation two, from a previous commentary (regarding Purple Heart recipient Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye while fighting terrorists abroad): “Didn’t [Crenshaw] go to war and like literally lose his eye because some Mujahideen, a brave f**ing soldier fucked his eye hole? Isn’t that how he lost his f***ing dumb ass eye? Because he got his f***ing eye hole fucked? … America deserved 9/11 dude, f*** it. I’m saying it.”

If Mamdani’s new faces of the Democratic Party believe this is the ticket to broad electoral success, good luck to them. If they turn out to be right, good luck to the rest of us.