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The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic as Ever
American Greatness ^ | June 30 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/30/2026 4:56:50 AM PDT by texas booster

The new socialist movement believes it can remake America—but its growing radicalism may prove the very thing that drives voters away and fuels a counterrevolution.

Win some blue-state and blue-city races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic Party or will soon absorb it. And in reaction to these new swarms, an increasingly terrified and ossified old Democrat guard either limps away from the hive or invites them in to take over more.

It is fascinating but ultimately depressing to watch old-style Democrats say or do anything to avoid the new mob of Robespierres. Democrat candidates who recently begged for a Schumer/Pelosi/Jeffries endorsement now are telling them to get in line at the guillotine.

Jewish American Democrats are terrified that what happened to the primaried and defeated Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, an arch-Trump hater, could befall them. Goldman’s obnoxious showboating hatred of Trump and championing of neo-socialist agendas offered no defense against the Jacobins’ antisemitism and hatred of Israel.

A number of Jewish Democrat candidates, like wannabe California congressman Scott Wiener, are backing off from Israel and now join the “genocide!” mob. Wiener hopes that the throng will reward his new anti-Israel position by overlooking the now inconvenient fact that to the anti-Semitic Democrat base he is still Jewish.

Some of the rich, likewise, think they can escape the guillotine—the various proposed taxes on “billionaires” and “millionaires” on their net worth or unrealized capital gains or plans to confiscate private properties deemed “not in the people’s interests.” They will either flee to Florida or join the mob and hope their donations spare them from the blade.

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The hard socialist agenda, which lacks even 50 percent popular support, is often recognizable despite efforts to conceal it until after elections. Given the clickbait lunacy of these socialists’ mindset, their true views often trickle out from prior social media posts, hot mics, leaks, and occasional temper-tantrum outbursts (cf. Mamdani’s “monsters” or Talarico’s “I hate Christianity” or Platner’s litany of unapologetic racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic outbursts).

In general, the socialist challenge is to “fundamentally transform America” into a statist, inert redistribution machine—nuttier than socialist Europe, a prescription for North Korean-style poverty, and completely unrecognizable to the Founders and most contemporary Americans. As far as we can distill, here are their agendas: ...

1 posted on 06/30/2026 4:56:50 AM PDT by texas booster
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The real rub is that Trump is their flip side—not a revolutionary but a counterrevolutionary. He seeks to overturn root and branch the entire 100-year progressive project and ensure America’s insidious slouching toward socialism ends with his term—for good. The more they brag about our collective socialist tomorrow, the more Trump incessantly dismantles socialism today. So far, they haven’t stopped him yet—but their lidless eyes never close.

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2 posted on 06/30/2026 4:58:54 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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He refers to Mamdani’s “socialist smile.” Notice what Mamdani looks like when he isn’t smiling. He is positively sinister looking. A hard, angry stare that reminds me of every dictator and Communist who’s ever destroyed a country. There’s nothing warm or friendly about him when he isn’t smiling or performing for his adoring crowd. Both he and his wife look like the typical Marxist agitators I’ve seen in Europe and elsewhere who lead the mobs tearing down democratically elected governments. He is a very dangerous man.


3 posted on 06/30/2026 5:49:07 AM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender)
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To: texas booster
What drives the sheer hatred of the new upscale socialists, and why are they in vogue now?

Because their logic is inverted, they are followers of satan.

4 posted on 06/30/2026 6:17:38 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: PA Presbyterian

Yup, Karen Bass is another one with that rigid, phony-baloney smile plastered all over that face of hers all the time. No one smiles that much naturally. They just turn it on and off when needed.


5 posted on 06/30/2026 6:30:41 AM PDT by lado
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To: texas booster

Outstanding.


6 posted on 06/30/2026 6:32:51 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReeper Allahu Akhbar Chorus: B*tching about Jews to the day the scimitar slices their heads off!)
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To: texas booster

They are MARXISTS,. President Trump is right, they have gone beyond Socalism.


7 posted on 06/30/2026 6:35:39 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: texas booster

All this came from obama.
Fundamental Transformation.


8 posted on 06/30/2026 6:47:58 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: texas booster

Human beings are envious by nature, but generally lack the wit or drive to earn that which they covet. Hence, communism/socialism (both are children of the same thieving father).


9 posted on 06/30/2026 6:48:58 AM PDT by LouAvul (Cleaning your home with a dog in the house is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.)
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To: PA Presbyterian
He is a very dangerous man.

No worse than any other liberal in govt. They're all anti Christ, anti America. Clinton. Pelosi. Newsom. Ad infinitum.

We are at war with Satan. He works through the democrat party.

10 posted on 06/30/2026 6:52:04 AM PDT by LouAvul (Cleaning your home with a dog in the house is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.)
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To: texas booster

Same as the Old Socialists!


11 posted on 06/30/2026 6:58:27 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: lado

I’ve noticed that with Obama, Biden, Jeffries, Pelosi, and the lot. A. Nice smile is always parted on their faces before they kill you.


12 posted on 06/30/2026 7:00:47 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: PA Presbyterian

He is evil.


13 posted on 06/30/2026 7:05:50 AM PDT by Chgogal (There is no entity more arrogantly ignorant than a White Liberal Woman.)
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