Expert who fled Cuba warns of ‘vicious cycle’ that will lead to ‘communists in double digits’ in Congress
A national security expert who fled Cuba to the United States warns that a “vicious cycle” currently dominating American politics could lead to “communists serving in double digits” in Congress.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation who fled communist Cuba in the 1970s, said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the socialist threat is now real.
Gonzalez describes this tendency as “taking over a host body, Democratic Party“The body is taken by the snatchers and they can’t defend themselves in any way even if they wanted to.”
In the current political environment, Gonzalez predicted, “We will increase the number of Communists to double digits.” House of Representatives “There’s no doubt about that at least.”
For a year, New York City elected a socialist mayor. Zohran MamdaniThree of the socialist congressional candidates he endorsed — Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier — defeated establishment Democrats, including two incumbents. On the other side of the country, Seattle elected a socialist mayor, Katie Wilson. Just this week, Colorado congressional candidate Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette, further demonstrating the socialists’ ability to unseat the party’s established figures.
While these politicians describe themselves as socialists, Gonzalez noted that according to the authors of the communist manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “there is no difference between them.” socialism and communismThey could be used interchangeably.”
“These people are communists, and when you catch them off guard they actually say, ‘Oh, yeah, I know we want communism,'” he said.
According to Gonzalez, the widespread success of socialist candidates in races across the United States is due to a variety of factors, including a decline in the number of immigrants assimilating into American culture, growing hatred of the United States, and even a combination of White guilt and a literal affordability crisis in cities. new York.
“A very important component of this, and one that conservatives sometimes forget, is that a lot of these votes are White votes, young white kids from the suburbs who feel guilty about a lot of things,” he explained.
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“They went to very expensive Ivy League schools and they’re trying to make a living in New York City without being a banker. And if you’re not a banker, you can’t make a living in New York City, I’m sorry, you’re going to have a financial crisis.”
Gonzalez said it fulfills promises of socialist benefits such as free tuition, free bus tickets and easy sales at publicly run grocery stores.
“So they end up voting for this. It’s a very bad vicious cycle that’s going on and if we’re not careful it’s going to produce communism in this country.”
Meanwhile, Neetu Arnold, a young immigrant to the United States who now works as a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, emphasized that the socialist trend is not limited to cities like New York, but is increasingly widespread in cities. Across the USA
“The rise of socialism in America is going to shape our politics. I think it’s going to make things more extreme,” Arnold said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
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“What the socialist candidates tap into are real frustrations and grievances, but the solutions they offer are essentially more government involvement rather than trying to solve the underlying problems,” he explained. “Most young people understand that finding housing is not that easy. They have student debt, they struggle to find stable jobs, and so the things they are promised don’t always come true.”
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As a naturalized U.S. citizen, Arnold said he hopes both sides of the political aisle understand that “socialist policies are a threat to the American way of life.”
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“In this country we value merit, wealth and the ability to rise in this society,” he said. “I saw my life change before my eyes by being in this county and having the opportunities that I saw for my family, and I think that’s only possible because of the free markets and the opportunities that we have in this country.”
“Socialist policies actually limit what we can do,” Arnold continued. “So I take that seriously, and I hope Democrats, Republicans, they all take the rise of socialism seriously.”
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