Communist radicals are mobilizing to sweep elections in 2028. Here’s what Republicans need to do to save the country.
New York City’s Democrat primary results set off a political fuse that is causing explosions across Democrat, federal, state, and local power structures. The victorious Democratic Socialists of America smoked two congressional incumbents, ended the political careers of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, and set up the DSA as the kingmaker in the 2028 presidential primaries.
Why did the far left of the Democrat party, represented by the DSA, suddenly amplify its rhetoric from universal health care, oligarchy, and affordability to an intense onslaught against America, Judaism, Israel, and capitalism? And in doing so, mount a challenge to the Democrat establishment?
The answer is Election 2028. Democrat leadership shut out the young, radical generation for two decades. Their voters haven’t had a choice for a president since 2008, when Barack Obama was the left’s lightbringer. Then the Democrat leadership connived to steal the 2016 and 2020 presidential nominations from socialist Bernie Sanders.
With political strength in America’s largest cities — New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles — it’s tempting to write off the primary results as an urban problem. The truth is, the DSA members hold over 250 elected offices nationwide.
The DSA and its allies have been training for a power-grab for a decade. In 2018, it auditioned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her unexpected primary victory over a longtime congressional fixture. During 2020’s George Floyd “summer of love” primary, a middle school principal of a failing Bronx charter school by the name of Jamaal Bowman beat New York congressman Eliot Engle, then the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee and an ardent supporter of Israel.
Working through AOC’s Squad got copious press but modest headway until the election of Zohran Mamdani, who showed the DSA that openly professing antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and Marxism was a winning combination with no meaningful political consequences.
As a result, the DSA movement is invigorated by an intensity of purpose that would have been political suicide in any other election cycle.
Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, DSA éminence grise Senator Bernie Sanders voiced the same conclusion: “I believe that it may just be possible that this country is on the verge of the political revolution we have fought for for such a long time.”
Revolutionary movements can leverage small bases. The DSA carefully selected sleepy Democrat incumbents and used the low-turnout primaries to win. Four years ago, even two years ago, extolling the “eradication of Western civilization”; being a Nazi-loving, repetitive abuser of women; or openly celebrating the October 7 massacre of Jews by Hamas would have been disqualifying. No more. Targeted Democrats who object to these noxious views are being voted out.
What Democrat wants to be humiliated like Scott Wiener, who’s running to replace Nancy Pelosi’s House seat, at a gay pride parade, where he was chased away for being a “genocidal-supporting center right shill”? Jewish Democrat Brad Lander was willing to condemn Israeli “genocide” to win a Manhattan congressional race over incumbent Dan Goldman, who had the temerity to support Israel, and was even humiliated by a Brooklyn coffee shop owner.
Republicans have a lot of work to do to counter the DSA’s momentum and appeal to cradle Democrats and young, ill educated voters. They have to raise the level of their game over their standard arguments of enforcing the law, reducing taxes, and responsible governance to connect with Americans who are justifiably nervous about Bernie Sanders’s revolution.
For example, despite being openly loathed by the far left, Jewish Democrats continue to resist voting for Republicans. Westchester County residents, 20 percent of whom are Jewish, voted for Bowman twice over a distinguished former mayor of Scarsdale and a physician whose parents were Jewish freedom fighters in Eastern Europe, simply because, as one Democrat put it, “I just can’t vote Republican.” Bowman later disgraced himself with increasingly antisemitic rhetoric and, famously, by pulling a fire alarm to interrupt a crucial House vote. He was primaried out in 2024.
Other Americans in the cities, suburbs, and heartland are potentially reachable. Look at the civic and financial ruination that Mamdani is wreaking on New York City. In Los Angeles, the DSA’s mayoral candidate, Nithya Raman, a Harvard graduate, intends to implement the same agenda. Whereas willfully ignorant younger voters devour the theme of eradicating Western civilization and free Palestine over policies, most Americans can understand the destructive force of the DSA’s policies on a personal level.
The DSA’s strategy is to defeat, intimidate, and overwhelm. So far, it is working. Democrat luminaries are kissing Mamdani’s ring, from New York governor Kathy Hochul to presidential hopeful retread Kamala Harris.
Some Democrat incumbents are distancing themselves from the DSA. Congressman Thomas Suozzi from Long Island launched “Promise to America” to show his patriotism. Only ten of his moderate House compatriots and five candidates have joined him.
At the national level, the president, the vice president, and Cabinet members have been effective communicators. Congressional and gubernatorial candidates have been much less so, because they have failed to elevate their discourse from crime, taxes, and governance.
Working-class families and wavering Democrats are worried. They are primed for the taking. Looking at the election results for Hamas-aligned Avila Chevalier’s winning primary results against Bronx dinosaur Espaillat, black, low-income, and Hispanic voters are not buying the message of hatred and “defund the police” by 2-percent, 10-percent, and 16-percent margins, respectively. Another example is Spencer Pratt’s victory in the Los Angeles primary until it was whittled away by voter-harvesting. The rousing turnout for America’s 250th birthday is another propitious sign.
Bernie Sanders issued a call to action for all Americans. We need to respond with rapidity, strength, and reason to protect and advance the foundational principles that have made us the most successful country on Earth, so that our children will inherit the City on the Hill, not hatred and impoverishment.
Linda R. Killian is a retired financial analyst and a local chairman of the Republican Party.
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