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The next mayor of Washington, DC, is likely to be a Marxist.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are battling it out for control.<\/p>\n

New York City has already fallen to a champion of Third Worldism.<\/p>\n

And, for the first time in American history, a significant bloc of Congress will openly hate the country they represent.<\/p>\n

Read more Gavin Newsom \u2014 once a capitalist, now a socialist<\/a><\/p>\n

We aren\u2019t talking about anti-Americanism in an abstract or hyperbolic sense: The Zohran Mamdani slate that swept New York\u2019s Democratic Party primaries this week is explicit in its aim to dismantle the republic.<\/p>\n

Members of Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the police, prisons and borders and \u201cseize the means of production,\u201d as the future congresswoman from New York\u2019s 13th congressional district, Darializa Avila Chevalier, once argued.<\/p>\n

The co-founder of a group that called for \u201cnothing short of the total collapse\u201d of the \u201cAmerican empire,\u201d with the goal to \u201ceradicate America\u201d and \u201cWestern civilization,\u201d Avila Chevalier doesn\u2019t deny she\u2019s a communist.<\/p>\n

And why should she?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a temptation to dismiss and whitewash the rise of the socialists. We shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Sure, the DSA is still constrained by the constitutional order \u2014 but it isn\u2019t constrained by Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,\u201d Van Jones warned on CNN as he watched the New York primary results come in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a battle between the establishment and this insurgency.\u201d<\/p>\n

What battle? The establishment has surrendered to the DSA\u2019s hostile takeover on every front.<\/p>\n

Establishment Democrats like Nancy Pelosi had the chance to sideline Squad members when they first appeared, yet the former speaker eventually coddled them, perched them in important committees and appeared on magazine covers celebrating their ascendency.<\/p>\n

If Democrats were unwilling to sideline illiberal bigots like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) back then, what makes anyone think they\u2019ll stand up to the socialists now?<\/p>\n

Top Democrats virtually tripped over themselves to endorse Nazi SS tattoo man Graham Platner in Maine, a Mamdanista in all ways save the flannel shirt.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that makes the Democratic Party great is it\u2019s a big tent party,\u201d New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker said of socialists who explicitly demand the overturn of Article I of the Constitution. \u201cWe need to stay that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic voters, says Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, \u201cchoose 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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\u2019t much of a jump.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not implausible that many more Democrats in urban areas will lose their seats to the well-funded socialist candidates, up to and including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.<\/p>\n

At the very least, Jeffries and others will be compelled to move even farther left to pacify the DSA and save their seats.<\/p>\n

Considering the spinelessness of the \u201cestablishment,\u201d we can expect Democrats to embrace a widening array of Marxist policy ideas.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Marxists are most often over-credentialed bourgeois with savior complexes.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, all energy on the left is with the anti-American faction.<\/p>\n

According to Gallup, 66% of Democrats hold a positive view of socialism.<\/p>\n

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 \u201csocialism,\u201d compared to only 40% with \u201ccapitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do we expect after decades of cultural and academic attacks on free enterprise, liberty and American history?<\/p>\n

The outlook among immigrants isn\u2019t much better.<\/p>\n

According to one poll, Mamdani won 62% of foreign-born voters in his mayoral race; another poll found that he won 81% of the vote of people in New York City for fewer than 10 years.<\/p>\n

Mamdani won something like 90% of Muslim votes.<\/p>\n

We can extrapolate from that race that socialists are importing Third World ideas that appeal to unassimilated newcomers \u2014 one of the most popular being Jew-hatred.<\/p>\n

The Mamdanistas fulminate and obsess over Israel so often you\u2019d think they were running on the Hamas slate in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

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There has always been radicalism on the American left.<\/p>\n

But Democrats didn\u2019t invite the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground into their party in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Read more French shoppers clash over air conditioners as deadly heatwave sweeps Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 2020s, though, Democrats invited communists into their tent.<\/p>\n

Now the communists are taking over.<\/p>\n

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at The Washington Examiner<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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