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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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    Mamdani Erases Little Italy … and (Of Course) the Jews
    Not having Little Italy on a map of ethnic enclaves in New York is like leaving the Golden Gate Bridge off a list of bridges in San Francisco. And yet that is precisely what the Ugandan-born socialist mayor of New York has done. Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Immigrant Affairs released a map on Wednesday titled…
    Al Perrotta
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    Old-School Democrat? Socialist Candidate Says He’s ‘Not Your Guy’
    Michigan, the next battlefield in the Democrat civil war, saw a Senate primary debate on Tuesday night. And one socialist candidate is telling “establishment” Democrats that he’s “not your guy.”  Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, attempted to advance his campaign against Rep. Haley Stevens, backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, by touting…
    Francesca Cella
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    Maine Democrats Want Their Nominee Out. There’s Just One Problem.
    The Maine Democratic Party is working “around the clock” to replace Graham Platner, but as the Democrat Senate nominee, he has leverage—and he’s using it. A civil war is brewing in Maine. As calls continue for Platner to step down, he has stayed silent and continues to deny multiple allegations of sexual assault. According to…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The Socialist Surge Reaches Wisconsin: Governor Candidate Tests the Left’s Limits
    The socialist wave has already crashed well beyond New York City. Now the Democratic Socialists of America is even taking swings at swing states. The latest far-left darling is Francesca Hong, a leading candidate to win the Democrat primary in the Wisconsin governor’s race. One might call her the Zohran Mamdani of the Midwest, but…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Democratic Socialism Presents an Opportunity for Republicans
    Every political movement eventually reveals what it truly believes. And when it does, voters have a choice to make. For years, Americans were told that the radical Left was little more than a noisy fringe, loud on social media but marginal in real life. That claim is now hard to sustain. Candidates aligned with or…
    Michael Freund
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani Is the Real Racist Polluting This Country
    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.   On July 3, the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani—and I don’t quite know why the mayor seems to think he…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    When Will Obama Say, ‘What’s Happened to My Party?’
    Former President Barack Obama recently explained why he rarely comments on current politics: “There are moments … where our core values are at stake. In those moments, I think it’s appropriate for me to say something.” But if the rise of democratic socialism inside his own party, the growing denunciation of capitalism, and accusations that…
    Larry Elder
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