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How Democratic Socialists Hijacked the Progressive Playbook
American Thinker ^ | 8 Jul, 2026 | Kim Ezra Shienbaum

Posted on 07/08/2026 4:43:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The radical left's electoral machine has officially graduated from municipal council chambers to the federal stage.

Speaker Mike Johnson and mainstream America recently awoke to a deeply unwelcome reality: multiple federal primary election victories by far-left democratic socialists. Each of these candidates intoned the exact same uniform script: a toxic blend of anti-corporate animus, calls to abolish ICE, and ubiquitous rhetoric about "affordability."

Speaker Johnson chose to frame these wins in New York and Colorado as a warning of an impending socialist/communist takeover of the Democratic Party. He cautioned that the consequences stretch far beyond the internal politics of the left, threatening the very future of the American republic. Johnson is correct.

But he is only partially correct.

The Hidden Electoral Engine

A far more ominous trend remains obscured by standard polling metrics. Corporate pollsters consistently obsess over secular demographics -- focusing heavily on age cohorts like Gen Z or income brackets, much like the Harris polls did during Zohran Mamdani’s rise. This narrow focus misses the true engine driving these victories: religious and cultural bloc-voting.

During Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, volunteers quietly targeted several of the 350 mosques across New York City. Investigative author Peter Schweizer notes in The Invisible Coup that Mamdani personally campaigned at 25 mosques, even appearing in photos alongside an imam linked to the infamous Holy Land Foundation Hamas-financing trial. Once established in office, Mamdani has made no effort to hide his religious and political allegiances, which extend far beyond the borders of New York, or indeed, America itself.

Only after the ballots were counted did the reality become clear: a mobilized Islamic voting bloc had grown to an estimated one million strong in the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; grahamplatner; leftism; maine; susancollins
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1 posted on 07/08/2026 4:43:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The muslims and the Democratic Socialists should be natural enemies. They think they can fight it out after the country is rubble.


2 posted on 07/08/2026 4:44:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Progressive/socialist/communism. No difference.


3 posted on 07/08/2026 4:47:17 AM PDT by dynachrome (“They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi; they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.”)
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To: MtnClimber

They just waited for a moment of weakness.


4 posted on 07/08/2026 4:49:42 AM PDT by Jonty30 (A quiet man is a thinking man. A quiet woman is angry.)
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To: MtnClimber

bump


5 posted on 07/08/2026 4:56:12 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: MtnClimber

They ONLY want to CONTROL US!!!


6 posted on 07/08/2026 4:56:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Basically, Mumdummy weaponized islamic bigotry. (islam is intentionally not capitalized)


7 posted on 07/08/2026 5:01:26 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: MtnClimber

Liberalism is this wonderful feeling that you’re creating positive social and political change. Think hippies ending the Vietnam war. But that’s all it is, a feeling. Once you’ve acquired the thing you say you sought the feeling goes away. So, you must always keep fighting, not to achieve positive change, but to keep that feeling of accomplishment flowing. You can’t ever stop. Drug addicts call it “chasing the high.”

One reason normies gave up on and agreed to gay marriage was they were just tired of fighting the battle. But the battle immediately became about baking the cake. If they’d won that one the next battle would be gay men dressed as women reading to kids in libraries. Or something equally absurd.


8 posted on 07/08/2026 5:02:40 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Oh, gosh! I said that out loud. I'm so sorry.)
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To: MtnClimber

They’ve always been the same thing.


9 posted on 07/08/2026 5:05:31 AM PDT by wastedyears (Never forgive for the USS Liberty.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Socialists became the playbook and the Democrats had to swallow it because of TDS. Democrats like Warner and Kaine are playing Step-n-Fetchit for the loonies.


10 posted on 07/08/2026 5:05:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: MtnClimber

One of my operative definitions of a Leftist is “someone who can’t say ‘no’”. This is because they don’t believe in Absolute Truth, there is no God, so anything goes.

Accordingly, whatever destructive belief comes down the pike, they believe it’s OK. “Who am I to judge?” Communism? Fine. Radical Islam? Fine. Transgenderism? Fine. Take from the successful? Fine. Drugs? Fine.

Just don’t have an institution to put limits on their “freedom”. Police? Defund. Churches? Burn them. Military? Defund. Parents? Don’t need them. “Just let us do what is right in our own eyes!”


11 posted on 07/08/2026 5:11:03 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2

Good analysis. May I add: abortion isn’t death, it’s a “choice”.


12 posted on 07/08/2026 5:34:17 AM PDT by Kudsman (John (no can do) Thune. Where ya at John? We need you John. Send help John . Send up a flare John!)
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To: MtnClimber
They didn't highjack anything.

They removed their masks.

13 posted on 07/08/2026 5:43:38 AM PDT by Salman (We need to proceed as if the system were completely broken, because it is. )
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To: MtnClimber

What’s this “hijacked”? Democratic Socialists are not some alien species that came out of nowhere to invade the peaceful, law-abiding, capitalist Democratic Party. The DSA is simply the next baby-step in an evolution the Democrats have been making for years. They have becoming more Communist, more authoritarian and more violent for a while now. Democratic Socialism is simply the mask coming off.


14 posted on 07/08/2026 6:21:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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The Democratic Socialist agenda is no longer a localized infection. It is an aggressively exported strategy targeting the U.S. Congress, securing three recent wins in New York and another in Colorado. Crucially, the traditional progressives defeated by these radicals were not unseated because they lacked leftist economic bona fides. They lost because they lacked one specific, mandatory attribute.

The article claims that the most important issue dividing "Progressives" versus "Democratic Socialists" is Israel. That's really not the case.

In fact, there is zero difference in actual policy and ideology between "Progressives" and Democratic Socialists, the difference is one of emphasis. Both support radical social and economic policies, but Progressives focus their campaigns on the former - i.e. racial identity politics, hatred of white people and western culture, DEI, and other "woke" talking points. In contrast, Democratic Socialists focus their rhetoric on confiscatory taxation and expansion of the welfare state. It's isn't that one group disagrees with the other's platform, it's more about changing emphasis for target audience.

15 posted on 07/08/2026 6:57:33 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: MtnClimber

The Marxists and the Progressives in this country long ago merged their narratives and tactics.


16 posted on 07/08/2026 7:20:45 AM PDT by Wuli (")
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To: Ann Archy

To be fair, they want to kill us at some point.


17 posted on 07/08/2026 7:39:42 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: MtnClimber

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18 posted on 07/08/2026 7:58:26 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Horsepucky. Progressives have, like all Socialists, been commie trash. No difference.


19 posted on 07/08/2026 8:16:58 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Wuli
The Marxists and the Progressives in this country long ago merged their narratives and tactics.

The Communist Party USA stopped running candidates for president in 1984, choosing to instead support Democrat candidates.

20 posted on 07/08/2026 9:07:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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