{"id":39107,"date":"2026-08-11T18:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39107"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:51:46","slug":"america-cant-let-socialism-become-just-another-part-of-the-political-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39107","title":{"rendered":"America can\u2019t let socialism become just another part of the political mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1200\/675\/zohran-mamdani.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-layout-index=\"4\" class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\"><!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"contain\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">  <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"info\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">\n<div class=\"caption\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6402925958112\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_featured-video_5_1\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">Zohran Mamdani booed at pro-police event on Staten Island <\/a><\/h4>\n<p data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">Zohran Mamdani is booed at a Staten Island pro-police celebration. Fox News&#8217; Bryan Llenas breaks down the financial scrutiny surrounding Mamdani&#8217;s costly socialist proposals, including a free childcare plan and fare-free buses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"beyondwords-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">For the 333 million Americans who don\u2019t live in <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178075\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York City<\/a>, there are plenty of reasons not to care what goes on there. It doesn\u2019t affect our day-to-day lives. New Yorkers democratically elected their socialist leader. It\u2019s their bed, let them lie in it. Or as the mainstream media likes to put it, it\u2019s probably just hyped-up right-wing hysteria.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">And of course, that\u2019s exactly how the communists in our country want us to think.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">But right now may be the most important moment to push back. It\u2019s incumbent on all of us to resist the normalization of <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178076\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/socialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">socialism in America<\/a>. Speak up now, so that what\u2019s radical in New York today doesn\u2019t become the norm in your neighborhood tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178077\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-accused-putting-new-accent-memphis-rally-going-full-kamala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AOC ACCUSED OF PUTTING ON NEW ACCENT DURING MEMPHIS RALLY: &#8216;GOING FULL KAMALA&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">And to be clear, there are plenty of radical things going on in New York right now. New York City Mayor <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178079\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/zohran-mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> has published a searchable database listing more than 960,000 properties worth over $1 million, with the owners\u2019 full names and home addresses attached.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He then went on X to gloat that anyone with a second home in the city worth more than $5 million should check the mailbox, because notification letters for his new pied-\u00e0-terre tax had already gone out. &#8220;You\u2019ve got mail,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">It was clear that the mayor of America\u2019s largest city had one goal: intimidation.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Even worse, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America has said as much. The goal, in Ashik Siddique\u2019s words, is &#8220;to replace capitalism with socialism.&#8221; That kind of power, he says, &#8220;is not conceded without struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mamdanis-deranged-israel-take-resurfaces-he-targets-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MAMDANI\u2019S \u2018DERANGED\u2019 ISRAEL TAKE RESURFACES AS HE TARGETS NETANYAHU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That\u2019s why Mamdani was proud to film his &#8220;Happy Tax Day&#8221; video doxxing Ken Griffin\u2019s Manhattan penthouse. Again, the natural response might be to move on quickly. Mamdani\u2019s video is just one billionaire\u2019s problem, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Mamdani is drawing up the blueprint for socialist tactics and the weaponization of government around the country. He\u2019s testing what the American people will tolerate. So long as the rest of us shrug our shoulders and move on, he\u2019s one step closer to something far more aggressive.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That\u2019s why everyday Americans must push back in one of the most powerful but overlooked ways: by talking about it. The best way to resist the normalization of socialism is to expose it and treat it as the serious threat it is. Americans have short attention spans, and every story, no matter how outrageous, competes for clicks in our attention economy. That is exactly the kind of environment that allows socialism to spread.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">If one thing is clear, socialism rarely stays put. The leaders of the DSA make it their mission to push socialism all across the country. For Mamdani and his ilk, this is a marathon, not a sprint. Contrary to what the media might lead you to believe, they have no intention of running NYC into the ground and packing up to go home. They\u2019re here to stay, and they aren\u2019t sitting on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178083\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">One of the greatest lies propagated in the media is that the Democratic Socialists are just a far-left wing of the Democrat Party. They want us to believe that communists are only on the fringe of Democrat Party politics. That might have been the case when avowed socialist <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_opinion_article_main-content_article-body_6_1178084\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/bernie-sanders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> was pushed out of the way for Hillary Clinton 10 years ago. But times are different now.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The socialists are now the heart of the Democrat Party, with a co-chair who muses openly about abolishing the Senate and the Electoral College and insists none of it is extreme. They might have played the supporting role in years prior, but now they\u2019re monopolizing all the main character energy that the left has to offer.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Thankfully, those of us who love our country still have an important role to play too. Expose every socialist policy and every destructive DSA platform, and call the leaders who champion them what they are: communists. It is better to be accused of overreaction now than of complacency later.<\/p>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p><i>Jeremy Hunt, a West Point graduate, served as a U.S. Army intelligence captain. 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