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Ed: I had this in my earlier post, but it’s worth posting again – and again, and again, and again. This is not just a liberal or even a progressive; this is a radical insurrectionist pledging violence for political change, here in the US as well as abroad. This should be disqualifying, and if Democrats had enough sanity and integrity, they would back the Republican as a consequence for DSA’s hijacking of the party. When David Duke won a GOP primary in Louisiana, Republicans repudiated him, including then-president George H.W. Bush. Democrats are rushing to back anti-Semites and radical revolutionaries instead of standing up for what’s right. 

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Jeffrey Blehar at NRO: Readers probably already know that Chevalier is a Democratic Socialist, without knowing what specifically that means beyond “wild-eyed, radical leftist.” So I cannot wait for every Democrat in the 120th Congress next year to be asked to answer for Chevalier’s many, many, many outrageous and outright bigoted statements over the years. (Credit where due: Many of these were unearthed back in late May/early June by the New York Post as well as inveterate archive-hound Andrew Kaczynski over at CNN.) It turns out that dear Darializa is not just your everyday “working-class Afro-Latina” — she’s a rabid true believer. A few select quotes and thoughts:

  • “F*** you. We’re gonna defund and abolish [the police]. You don’t get to water down our movements.”
  • “No. It means ending policing full stop. Period. No. more. police. at. all. ever. it’s very harmful to the work Black abolitionists have been doing for decades to dilute this movement.”
  • “A world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”
  • “Abolish the border.”
  • “All deportation is wrong.”
  • “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my face on the American flag behind me.”

Elsewhere she casually accused both black and Arab men of being race traitors for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.” Some people deny Israel’s right to exist, but when asked in August of 2020 how she would react if Israel ceased to exist, Chevalier outwitted her social media opponent: “Trick question — Israel doesn’t exist!” During that same period, she accused Joe Biden of being both a “rapist” and a “war criminal” (and you thought National Review was hard on him).





Ed: Blehar has plenty more on Chevalier, and I imagine the GOP will find even more in the next few months. Unless Democrat leadership is willing to repudiate her and withdraw their endorsement, though, she’ll be in the House next January. 

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Ed: Only because Dem leadership refuses to act. They could repudiate DSA nominees, and they could go even further by endorsing their Republican challengers. Jeffries wants power too much to make the courageous choice that Bush did in 1991, though. 

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Reihan Salam at The Free Press: The question for policymakers is not whether American Muslims are a growing political force—that much is beyond dispute, as evidenced by the rise of Mamdani, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, and other stalwarts of the Democratic left. It’s whether American institutions are thinking clearly about what that growth portends. The answer turns on two ideological tendencies within the American Muslim population that are distinct in their character, different in their dangers, and yet mutually reinforcing.

The first is Islamism, a transnational revolutionary ideology that seeks to capture state power in order to impose Islamic law and that rejects any separation between religious authority and political life. Islamism commands the allegiance of a distinct minority of American Muslims, but its most dangerous manifestation—jihadism, or the turn to violence in pursuit of Islamist objectives—is an urgent threat.

The second is Third Worldism, a fusion of anti-Zionism, anti-Westernism, and anti-capitalism that places the sacralized victimhood of Palestinian Arabs at the center of a larger struggle against American imperialism. Unlike Islamism, Third Worldism is not primarily a religion-based ideology. Its most committed adherents, such as Mamdani himself, tend to lead largely secular lives. But, in important respects, it presents the more consequential long-term ideological challenge. Where jihadism targets American civilians as part of a larger struggle to overthrow “apostate” regimes in the Muslim world, Third Worldism endeavors to transform the nation’s ideological-intellectual milieu, shaping how Americans—well beyond the Muslim minority—understand their country and its place in the world.





Ed: Islamism is a relatively new threat, and probably still a danger mainly for potential violence. Third Worldism is a much more entrenched threat, one that has embedded itself in the Left for decades, as it has the same ultimate goal as the Left: the total deconstruction of Western civilization. The introduction of Muslim activists is similar to the introduction of African and Asian activists in the 1960s and 1970s to argue for the illegitimacy of Western culture. For the Left, the enemy of their enemy is their ally, which also includes the Islamists despite the total incompatibility of their sexual politics. This is an excellent essay; read it all. 

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Ed: This is the Islamist branch of the Left, and the Democrat Party is standing aside and letting it seize control. That is especially amazing considering the New York-based leadership of the party establishment in Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. We can include Adam Hamawy in this too, who won the primary for a safe Dem seat in the House despite his connections to both al-Qaeda and the Blind Sheikh. Why are Schumer and Jeffries not exercising the David Duke option in any of these contests?

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John Podhoretz at Commentary: Imagine if I had said to you, on the morning of October 8, 2023, that in 32 months’ time, a Muslim anti-Zionist would be elected mayor of a city with 900,000 Jews who comprise 11 percent of that city’s population and would lead insurgent Democrats to victories over establishment incumbent Democrats in two of the city’s congressional districts fueled largely if not solely by their embrace of anti-Zionism and the idea that Jewish self-defense in the land of Israel constitutes a “genocide.” I think you would have thought I was insane. But here we are. The Muslim anti-Zionist mayor of America’s most Jewish city sponsored three candidates for Congress, two in primary races against sitting left-wing incumbents, and pretty much secured for them the Democratic Party nominations in their districts.

Consider: A man no one had heard of before February 2025 is now the new kingmaker in American politics—and his superpower is his hatred of Israel. Even more sobering, unlike superheroes in comic books, he does not have a secret identity to hide behind; Zohran Mamdani demanded that we take him as he is, did not trim his sails, stuck with what he believed in, and has trumped the Squad in charting an ever-more radical path for one of the two major political parties in the United States. … 





Again, this would have seemed science-fictional (get it) on October 8, 2023. But then, if you’d taken a moment and slowed down and thought about the previous two decades, the prediction would have begun to make sense. This is not the beginning of something; it is the fulfillment of more than two decades of planning and brilliant opportunism.

Ed: This is where the Left has been heading for a long time, and anti-Semitism has always been a part of it. The New Left in the 1960s was rife with it, especially in its radicalization of the black community. The party tamped it down in the late 1980s with the Democratic Leadership Council and its promotion of Bill Clinton as a “Third Way” Democrat. The New Left took over with Barack Obama, though, and it has never relinquished control since. The October 7 massacres by Hamas catalyzed the movement by activating its mainly latent anti-Semitism, and Democrat leadership has been unwilling to quell it. Why? Because their only value and priority is Trump. 

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Ed: So what’s James going to do about it? All I hear from Democrat leaders is tongue-clucking, and not even very much of that. Schumer and Jeffries are completely AWOL at this point. 

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HuffPost: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.

Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.

Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”

Ed: Oooooo, that’ll scare the DSA! The proper response from a principled party leader would be to cut any support for these insurgents, mainly for their hatred and violent agenda, but also for interfering with the party’s primaries as an outside political party. Jeffries doesn’t have the testicular fortitude for that, and neither does Schumer. 





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“Three losses in one night is tough. We wanted so-called ‘Leader’ Jeffries to know our thoughts are with him, his candidates, and whatever remains of his influence in the Democrat Party.” – NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella

Ed: If you react like a wimp, expect to get treated like one. Democrats could have nipped this in the bud years ago; they still can. They need leaders with actual cojones to pull that off, though. 

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Newsbusters: On Wednesday, the broadcast networks covered on their flagship morning newscasts Tuesday’s results from the New York primary election that saw the far-left, Jew-hating socialists go three-for-three in contested races for House seats (and a State Assembly candidate who has gushed over 9/11). However, they sanitized this takeover of the Democrat Party as only in the Big Apple, and their support for eradicating Jews and Israel as believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”

A supposed bastion of pro-Israel and MAGA programming, CBS Mornings was the newscast that delivered this wild understatement.

It was cued up by fill-in co-host Matt Gutman boating of “a big win for progressive left” and proof New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “is emerging, obviously, as a kingmaker, at least here in New York…with a remarkable influence on voters,” so he wanted to know what “this Democratic socialist sweep tells us about Democratic Party future[.]”

Ed: It’s all about the Jooooooooos, except that’s only one aspect of the DSA’s agenda. The shift to revolutionary party actually encompasses much more than just an obsession with Israel; these candidates explicitly want to end Western civilization and America in particular. Chevalier has explicitly demanded just that. 

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Here, Donny Deutsch (correctly) points out that the Democrat party now has a branding problem for “going too far left” that will be used against them nationally.

Scarborough finally, reluctantly, admits the branding problem might be “challenging” for Democrats.

Enjoy the new direction of the party with which you’ve aligned yourself, Joe.

Enjoy it.

Ed: Deutsch nails it, and Scarborough’s in denial. Also, Spanberger and Sherill went hard left after their election after posing as moderates. Scarborough essentially debunked his own point; those two won their elections by lying about how they would govern, especially Spanberger. The Democrat Party support for outright revolutionaries in these elections equates to an endorsement of their positions and statements, and Republicans should make their opponents answer for them in elections across the country. 

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Mediaite: Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) wigged out and appeared to smack the phone out of a reporter’s hand when he was asked whether he endorsed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, as seen in new footage obtained by Fox News on Wednesday.

The channel played a brief clip of Moulton being asked about Platner while walking into an office. “Who are you?” Moulton scoffed at the reporter.

“Do you endorse Graham Platner in Maine?” the male reporter asked again. The lawmaker walked right up to the reporter and put his face inches away from the camera phone, before asking, “Who are you to be asking this question?”

He then seemed to snatch the phone while quipping, “You gotta do a better job of hanging onto your phone.” The phone jumped around and seemed to tumble to the ground in the last few seconds.

Ed: David wrote about this earlier, but I wanted to add it here to demonstrate Deutsch’s point. This is the Todd Akin strategy, and it’s working already. And Democrats may not be prepared to deal with it; Moulton certainly hasn’t prepared to be Akinized. Republican candidates at all levels need to adopt this strategy early and ride it all the way to November. 

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But the lesson is clear: if Republicans don’t act now, we will lose this country as we know it.

We need to be clear about what we stand for. Closed borders, secure elections, economic prosperity for all Americans, and, most of all, proudly protecting the American way of life against socialism. It’s the only way to save our country.

Ed: Senator Moreno is correct; Republicans have to take the initiative and make this the issue of the midterms, because we need to wake up the voters to the dangers ahead. 

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Ed: It’s about integrity. Fetterman has it. The other Senate Democrats do not, and that’s especially true of their leader, Chuck Schumer. 

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I will be on vacation for the next few days. The Final Word will return on Monday. Last night’s lyric: “Killer Queen” by Queen.


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