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    Want to Rebuild Higher Education? Here Is the Guidebook
    The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America—a boom in its boom-and-bust cycle, as my colleague Robert Stilson calls it—has many political observers on the right and the left analyzing the conditions that led to an embrace of that group’s radicalism. And it is radical. As Stilson points out, “[i]n its newly updated platform, the DSA…
    Sarah Lee
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    Democratic Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass Murderer Mao Zedong
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   We’re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Performance Art Joke’ at the Heart of the Democratic Socialist Movement 
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Everyone should notice, if you’re watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that over Victor’s right shoulder are the galleys…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How Cuba Became the Nerve Center of the Anti-American Left
    If you want to know where a good deal of the modern rise of socialism is coming from, look no further than 90 miles off the coast of Florida, to Cuba. That’s certainly where American leftists have been looking for a long time. The State Department released a thorough and perhaps, to many, startling report…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Nutty. Moronic. Dangerous. Bigoted’: Major Democrat Figures Slam the Democratic Socialists Taking Over Their Party
    Van Jones, the proudly progressive CNN pundit, has a message for the Democratic Socialists of America candidates who have crashed his party: “Stop pooping in the punch bowl and telling us the turds are ice cubes,” he declared on X. After sharing his progressive bona fides, Jones took on some of the “terrible” ideas pushed…
    Al Perrotta
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    Democrats’ Communism Might Drive Bill Maher to Vote for Vance
    A long-time Democrat said he might vote for Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 election because he doesn’t want to live in “communist America.” Comedian and HBO show host Bill Maher sat down for an interview with ABC News on Sunday following his reception of the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and…
    Francesca Cella
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    Socialism, Federalism, and the Future of the Electoral College
    In the early 20th century, two of England’s intellectual giants engaged in a series of debates. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was the resident apologist for income redistribution and central planning. G.K. Chesterton, a Catholic writer, argued in favor of property rights and the decentralization of political power. “I found they were utterly insensate and grotesque,” Shaw…
    Lee Habeeb
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    The Democratic Party Is Turning Into a Bunch of Middle-Class Phonies
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   Have you noticed this phenomenon of the Democrat-socialist party trying to create fake or false or pseudo middle-class candidates?  We…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Islamic Terrorism and Socialism Ramp Up Democrat Infighting, Dem Reps Say
    A longtime Democrat congressman sounded the alarm on the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, adding that his party’s leadership is only making room for the extreme wing of Democrats. “I just found it to be not the same caucus I joined in 2007,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., told CNN regarding the House Progressive Caucus….
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    El-Sayed Points to Dead American Soldiers When Pressed by CNN on Ayatollah Comment
    Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dodged a question about his past comment on the death of the former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after being pressed on the issue by CNN host Jake Tapper. According to a video obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed told campaign staff the day after Khamenei’s death that he…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    DSA’s Dark Triumph: Socialism Surges as America Turns 250 
    On the very day America marked its 250th birthday—a celebration of liberty, enterprise, and individual rights—the Democratic Socialists of America notched a grim milestone. With more than 120,000 members and chapters in all 50 states, DSA is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history. While fireworks lit the skies, radical progressive Democrats were busy burying the republic’s founding principles…
    Rep. Randy Fine
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    Colonial America Already Ran the Socialist Experiment. It Failed.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told ABC’s Jonathan Karl last month that a democratic socialist can win any office in the country. He may be right about the contemporary politics, but he is dead wrong about the underlying economics, and Colonial America proved it four centuries before he took the oath of office. The…
    Jay Rogers
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Search for a Working-Class Candidate
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, Victor, the Left. Let’s talk about them. I know that you’re currently working on an article about the Left as middle…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Damning Reports Show How Deep New York Is Mired in Blue State Doom Loop
    New York isn’t going to be able to tax and spend its way out of this mess. A series of recently released reports highlights how the state of New York has put itself on a long-term path toward calamity. New York is caught in the same doom loop that’s entrapped California and other big, blue…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    CNN Calls Out Michigan’s El-Sayed for Previous ‘Defund the Police’ Statements
    CNN is calling out Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat, for his shifting views on the “defund the police” movement. Before launching his Senate campaign, El-Sayed deleted his X history, including numerous posts touting the “defund the police” movement, according to CNN. He then claimed he didn’t advocate for defunding the police….
    Francesca Cella
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    Socialist War on Public Safety Coming to a Town Near You
    One thing is for sure about the wave of socialist Democrats being put into office: They are committed to the bit no matter how demented their policies end up in practice. A prime example of this would be in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where putting ideology over common sense recently claimed another victim. Department of Public Works…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    People Who Believe in Communism Are Either ‘Stupid or Evil,’ GOP Leadership Says
    Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who was “robbed of his childhood” by communism, took the podium at the House Republican leadership press conference on Wednesday to warn Americans about the lies sold by self-proclaimed Marxist, communist, and socialist candidates. “When people who have lived under communism warn us about what is happening, we actually should listen…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Defending America’s Founding Principles in a Divided Age
    The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements—one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right—share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the American experiment. On one side stands the Democratic Socialists of America, whose influence within…
    Ben Shapiro
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    The Media’s Dangerous Minimization of the Left’s Radical Turn to Socialism
    Oh, how the mainstream media just loves to hype supposed Republican infighting while remaining silent on the Democrat split over socialism. When House Republicans recently derailed a procedural vote, Bloomberg ran a headline declaring that the House had “spiraled into dysfunction” and reported that the floor had “descended into chaos.” The story was not about a party…
    Michael Freund
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    The Ungrateful Urban Class Turning Into the New Democratic Socialist Party
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   Who are these Democratic Socialists of America that are so frequently mentioned in the news? Are they traditional European socialists? Are…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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