Washington Examiner
"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?"
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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.
"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?" . . .
. . . "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." . . .More...
Democrats are in a civil war—and the far left is gaining ground . . . “The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time,” Trump posted on social media. “It’s easy to be a Communist—All you have to do is say, ‘I’ll give you everything,’ but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it.”
"He added: “The game is on. Enjoy watching!”
"One of the winners in New York this week, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has drawn particular attention—and criticism from centrists—for attending a pro-Palestinian rally the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel. She has faced criticism for calling for an end to all deportations and the abolition of prisons. She said she regrets her history of social-media posts, which included disparaging comments about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the American flag.
"As Democrats look to 2028, they are considering disparate models for leadership. Those on the left said that a populist agenda, championed by such firebrands as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), can generate the kind of excitement and emotion needed to rally voters behind the party." . . .
