Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson agreed with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani that “hard-left socialists and communists” are ready to be the face of the Democratic Party, after progressive candidates won their New York primaries Tuesday night.
Benson said Thursday on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. that the socialist candidates who have won have expressed anti-American viewpoints.
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“Not only do these people want to try to impose an ideology and an economic system that has chronically failed everywhere that it has been tried,” Benson said, but “they are doing so while espousing, at best, disdain if not open contempt for the United States of America.”
Mamdani has been dubbed a “kingmaker” by political pundits for endorsing fellow progressive candidates who won their primaries on Tuesday night in New York.
Benson warned socialist candidates that their “open contempt” for the country might not be a winning strategy nationwide.
“If they think that’s going to fly for them electorally, good luck to them,” Benson said. “And if they’re right about that, good luck to us.”
Benson said the face of the socialist movement taking over the Democratic Party looks like the viewpoints held by progressive streamer Hasan Piker.
“Hasan Piker, who boasts about [how] he does not love this country and has no patriotic feelings for it, who laments the fact that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, who said outright and angrily that America deserved 9/11,” Benson said.
Later in Benson’s Fox Business segment, he spoke about foreign fans coming to the United States for the FIFA World Cup and discovering that the country is “great.”
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Benson compared foreign soccer fans to the socialist candidates that expressed disdain for the country, saying the soccer fans are reminding Americans how “special” the U.S. is.
“It’s taking foreign soccer fans to come here and remind the rest of us, ‘Yes, we do have something unique and extraordinary and exceptional and special here,’” Benson said. “I wouldn’t have expected it necessarily on my bingo card that foreign soccer fans being, at least temporarily, the salvation that we need here, but we’re getting it, and it’s awesome.”
