Zohran Mamdani fuels socialist wave shifting Democratic Party left

Socialism has long been considered a dirty word in American politics.

This resembled a rejection of the capitalist system that had fueled the country’s rise to superpower status, and was very reminiscent of the dreamy, wealth-sharing philosophy that was antithetical to the nature of fierce corporate competition.

Viewed from another perspective, the United States has a government-run retirement program, government-run health care systems for the elderly and the poor, and government-run health care systems for farmers, small businesses, schools, veterans, the unemployed, etc. It has a hybrid system consisting of a number of programs to help. Not exactly a European-style welfare state, but perhaps a close cousin.

Currently socialists are prominent in Democratic politics.

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Following the lead of the party’s most visible proponent, Zohran Mamdani, they are pushing the party dramatically to the left, with some deep, dark elements, especially in foreign policy.

This amounts to a gift-wrapped Fourth of July gift to Republicans who are happy to spend the next few years competing against this new wave of socialists.

Perhaps the word no longer carries sinister overtones because President Trump says the three far-left candidates the New York City mayor is successfully pushing for Congress are “Communists.” This appears to be a throwback to the 1950s witch hunts known as McCarthyism.

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But this goes beyond Washington and Seattle also electing socialists as mayors, and the clear point is that much of the country is much further to the right compared to liberal cauldrons like New York City.

New socialists may have enthusiasm on their side, but some of their views are downright dangerous. And they are waging their war quite openly under the banner of the Democratic Socialists of America.

“The Democratic Party is allowing DSA candidates to run as Democrats, even though DSA is ideologically committed to a hostile takeover of the party,” says Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Dispatch, a conservative, anti-Trump news site. “DSA is not an official party; it calls itself ‘a political and activist organization, not a party.’ It is the fifth column within the Democratic Party. There is no sane, informed Democrat who thinks these people are good for their party.”

What about the left? On the liberal show “The View,” Joy Behar declared: “I’m not afraid of that term. Social Security is democratic socialism. So is unemployment insurance, in part. The people who pick up your garbage, the people who put out the fire in your house. That’s all democratic socialism.”

But the situation is getting worse.

Among the worst of the new wave is Darializa Avila Chevalier, who defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) in the left-wing primary. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The new socialists are fervently anti-Israel; This clearly deserves criticism for Bibi Netanyahu’s endless wars, but reinforces the view that the Democratic Party, even in New York, has turned its back on our long-time Middle East ally. This also reflects the change of the party.
By their own admission, many of them hate America as much as they hate Israel.

Trump wasted no time in stepping up his rhetoric: “Assassination is a big deal for them. They are animals… They will kill your people. And that’s their goal.”

The three congressional candidates that Mamdani successfully put forward are openly pro-Palestinian. The mayor, who uses the expression “from the river to the sea”, which means erasing Israel from the map, has the same stance even in a city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel.

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This seems to be their most important problem. There’s nothing wrong with impeaching Democrats; They just weren’t anti-Israel enough.

The most outrageous of the winners backed by Mamdani is Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and doctoral student who supports defunding the police and prisons, abolishing borders, abolishing ICE, seizing private property, and nationalizing major industries.

The day after the brutal October 7 attacks, in which Hamas murdered and held 1,200 Israelis hostage, Chevalier attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square. He was celebrating a terrible terrorist attack.

Chevalier also called Joe Biden a “rapist” and used the F-word against Kamala Harris. And this is not ancient history; some messages were published as recently as 2022.

As National Review points out, Chevalier is hardly alone.

Aber Kawas, the Democratic candidate for a New York state Senate seat, argues that America deserved the 9/11 attacks: Indeed.

“The idea that we have to apologize for a terrorist attack committed by a few people, and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and slavery and so on, is kind of reprehensible to me,” Kawas says.

Pennsylvania state representative and Democratic candidate for Congress Chris Rabb has blamed “Zionists” for the Bondi Beach massacre of Australian Jews. Adam Hamawy, a former Army doctor and current Democratic candidate for Congress from New Jersey, worked with Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “blind sheik” convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He even testified on behalf of the sheikh. He now says Abdel-Rahman rejected calls for violence.

Claire Valdez, one of Mamdani’s winners, says she would not only abolish ICE, but that “detention and deportation are being used as a weapon not just against immigrants, but against the entire working class.”

And out west, Melat Kiros, another socialist running in Colorado, was asked by a local news anchor about a firebomb attack on peaceful protesters supporting Jewish hostages held by Hamas and refused to condemn it.

“I don’t know what’s in the perpetrator’s heart,” he said.

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Ah. That’s a really low bar and he failed to clear it.

Do these look like the kind of people who should be the face of the Democratic Party?

New York Rep. Tom Suozzi rallied 12 other Democratic lawmakers to fight. These more moderate liberals declare themselves defenders of capitalism, the police, and patriotism under the banner “The Promise to America.”

“We don’t participate in MAGA. We don’t participate in socialism,” Suozzi says. “We believe the vast majority of America wants common-sense, mainstream leadership, not political extremism.”

Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-Y., rallied 12 other Democratic lawmakers to push back against the insurgent socialist wing of his party. (Nathan Posner/Anatolia via Getty Images)

It’s a small group with little influence, but the Suozzi gang is trying to send the message that the party is not in thrall to crazy socialists.

“I’m a capitalist, I’m not a socialist… I’m not ashamed of America,” Suozzi told Fox News Digital.

James Carville became distraught and addressed Chevalier, saying: “Ma’am, I am not in the same party as you… I do not want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist. I cannot do that.”

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Socialists are very popular right now; a fringe group that had somehow thrust itself into the national spotlight and that Republicans would attack for years to come.

Did America deserve 9/11? Should a barbaric terrorist attack on Israelis be celebrated? Get rid of the police?

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Even if only a handful of far-left zealots are elected, they will set the tone for a party increasingly extreme with views that most voters will find repugnant.