Reflections on the Democrat Embrace of Mamdani

By John Kass

Sunday Nov. 9, 2025

How did you prepare the big news of the week?

There was much news. But let’s narrow it down to a few.

The Jacobin leftist Zohran Mamdani’s political victory over the ashes of what had been the Democrat Party, propelled by the Angry White Women vote. 

The  Angry White Women Leftists, often referred to as AWFLS, have appetite and a well developed sense of entitlement. Though they and their male partners are well educated in obscure subjects, they don’t have real financially marketable skills.  They know DEI bureaucracy and DEI slogans, but they can’t fix a leaky toilet or repair an electric socket. They can’t earn an honest dollar so they reach for politics to take what they want.

My friend the astute writer Michael Ledwith is also fascinated by these AWFLS, who provide anger, backbone and the necessary cruelty to what we are now experiencing as American Communism. They are what we call Karens. He sent me this passage from George Orwell’s “1984.”

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

It explains a lot, Ledwith said. And I think of AOC and her posse of AWFLS, searching for heretics, sharpening her knife, and I hope she doesn’t find them.

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Because they don’t have the money to live in New York at the standard they expect to live,  they demand that Zohran give them “free stuff” and call it “affordability.” They feel betrayed by the establishment because they can no longer pay for what they desire. They want to live large as befits what they think is their station. And he’s promised to use other people’s money until that’s gone and the roof caves in, as it always does.

And the other big news (to me, at least) are the revelations that Democrat Deep State prosecutorial zealot Jack Smith–the javert of the new left–had hoped to prosecute “the entire Republican political apparatus” for the crime of being conservative.

How did we get here? As always the dried bones of political failure have lined this road over the decades: The failure of the political establishment is the foundation of the Mamdani rise. And what did the Democrat establishment offer in New York? A tired cynical Cuomo known for feeding grandmothers in nursing homes to the pandemic, and slapping fannies and otherwise sexually harassing young women. Democrats were as exhausted as he was.

And they offered a charismatic figure in Mamdani, and if he orders them to the killing fields at some future date, he wasn’t a tired Democrat hack like Cuomo.

The leftist Democrats who bowed to the radical communists like Mandami enjoy talking of diversity up until the moment they hang you for speaking your mind. I’m conservative. I really don’t think a trip to prison would change my mind about the leftists who have destroyed my hometown of Chicago and have now ruined New York.

You might have watched panel discussion shows—those panels of experts and witty pundits with perfect teeth–selected to reflect your politics like so many of those bobble head dogs that people place in their cars. It is amusing to watch them cast about for consensus if one hasn’t yet been formed. But bobble heads—even pretty ones—don’t quite get you there.

So how did I prepare for Mamdani, especially as Democrats worried about the angry left and the political guillotine of the leftists express no desire to end their shut-down of the federal government?

Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said that Democrat fear of their own won’t allow them to reopen the government. “Because they’re afraid of facing the guillotine of the radical left. And who are the radical left? They are the people who would prefer to use taxpayer dollars to pay for health care for illegal immigrants than to pay for the men and women who keep us safe.”

Guillotine, fear of the unleashed mob? I looked for my old copy of Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”

It’s old. It’s affordable in paperback. It was written by a conservative. And I like it.

But it has one serious drawback:

It is a book.

A book on paper, and this, by definition, takes effort to digest.

It is not like sitting with the bobbleheads. But it does involve the Reign of Terror propelled by the Jacobin revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre.

France spilled its own blood from September 1793 and into July 1794. In the Reign of Terror, some 17,000 French citizens were executed at the guillotine. Another 10,000 died in prison without trial.

Among them were thousands of executed priests caught up in the Jacobin De-Christianization of France, as churches were shuttered and winemakers, shopkeepers, supporters of the king and queen were executed. Everyone and anyone could be suspected, and sent to the guillotine to the jeers of the filthy mob. It wasn’t Portland or Chicago, it was Paris.

Family members accused each other as not being supportive enough of the revolution, terrified they would themselves be accused. And they were killed. And the guillotine kept falling again and again and again.

For those who are afraid of reading, I leave this short video, narrated by a man with an English accent. Why? There’s nothing like an English accent to perpetuate a sense of historical authority

Fittingly, it even claimed Robespierre. Who reminds us of Robespierre today?

I think of the Jacobin Democrats Adam Schiff,  John Brennan of the CIA, or perhaps the imperious James Comey who destroyed the credibility of the FBI. You can see how frightened they are. Brennan is snarling the way a frightened dog snarls at the approach of a predator.

At any event, the executions in France continued until finally, Napoleon became dictator of all of France and personally controlled the media and told the newspapers what to print.

Now it’s New York Mayor Elect Zorhan Mamdani’s turn to play the Jacobin with his billionaire friends.

His voters don’t read history. They have “feelings.” They are sentimental, emotional and thus easily manipulated, demanding “free stuff” and this leads to disaster.

Soros has his meat puppet. He doesn’t need the clumsy barbarian in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson. He’s already got Chicago, and much of the media. It’s not only Chicago and New York. The left is ascendant, full of confidence and oh so violent.  The Democrat embrace of the assassination culture continued after the assassination of Christian activist Charlie Kirk.

They marched in lock step in support of their candidate in Virginia who fantasized about murdering his opponents and killing the opponent’s children. It was Virginia Democrats who revenged themselves on Republican delegate Carrie Coyner, the Virginia Republican who revealed violent texts sent to her by Jay Jones.

He expresses fantasies of murdering children and now is the chief law enforcement officer of the commonwealth that produced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Senior Virginia Democrats like Sen. Tim Kaine supported and embraced Jay Jones. The media, which has for decades protected leftist outrage, did it’s job.

So how did we get here? As always, the establishment failed, and legitimate concerns about cost of living were ignored. And the Bolsheviks offered a charismatic leader with plenty of charm.

And now they bathe in their feelings, and think about the great future ahead of them, as they reach for power over the rest of us. And you’re surprised that I would compare today’s American Democrats to the murderous Jacobins of 18th Century France? I don’t take guillotines to protests in American cities, but they do. In Chicago, New York, Portland, Los Angeles, every place where the Democrats feel strong.

The rest of us? We pray for their reign of terror to end.

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Comments 75

  1. John, nice summary of the political picture of the takeover by the neo-communists of the American Democratic party. Mamdani is young, an “immigrant” and talking affordability to the AWFLs. The quote from George Orwell’s 1984 is apt. The AWFLs indeed are emotional thinkers, easily manipulated along with certain “college educated” minority sub-groups. Your reference to Edmund Burke is spot-on, took me back to the first time I read it in college (when conservative writers weren’t banned from political science classes). In the end, this off-year election speaks to the maxim, “it’s the economy, stupid”. Trump & Republicans better get the economy moving before next summer or 2026 mid-terms could show a disasterous loss of swing independents and loss of the House. The good news is flyover country generally isn’t buying what Mamdani et al are pitching. Lastly, nice to see Brennan and Smith getting worried, they should be!

    1. Well said. Felt I had no choice other than to vote for Trump. Was never a cult member. Frankly, I could see all this coming in spite of excellent policies, because his larger than life ego won’t allow him to just shut up for a while.
      This constant poking the bear crap is what will result in ’26 being a debacle for the Republicans if those in congress don’t start putting some distance between President Mouth, and themselves.
      Now he wants the filibuster gone, so he can bask in his self made glory and sycophants like Gutfeld can continue their blind cult like worship.

      1. Well said, Larry. Trumps more worried about having a stadium named after him or figure of himself on Mt Rushmore than what the average Joe is suffering regarding every day costs.

  2. I think the Dems are celebrating a little too much, but it still shouldn’t be ignored. They effectively used the shutdown to turn out their angry young white women. They elected blue candidates in blue states which isn’t a surprise. The only surprise to me was the election of Jones in VA without any rebuking from Spanberger. I truly thought peo0le would reject him.

    The right should aggressively court the young conservative-leaning people who were awakened after the public execution of Charlie Kirk, because the left has an energized “free lunch bunch” who are just as stupid as the “Queers for Palestine”.

    1. Hopefully that’s the case. However the likes of Tucker giving a softball interview to the likes of Fuentes will create an opening for the Dems that the rest of the party doesn’t need. The Heritage Foundation trying to defend Carlson didn’t help either.
      Now there seems to be a group of these so called conservatives consisting of Carlson, Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, and Candance Owens. Trust that the MSM will give them all the publicity that they desire.

  3. On Friday there were 14 people arrested at the ICE facility in Broadview for sitting in the middle of the street holding hands and blocking traffic,

    Who were they?

    They were all White, angry, liberal females.

    2. Lou you stole my comment, that is what I get for not being the early bird getting the worm.
      However, one of the drum circle AWFLS busted by ICE was from Oak Park, that bastion like Evanston filled to the brim with bleeding heart ninnies. In my youth we called the Oak Parkers a bunch of “DOOPERS,” Damn Old Oak Parkers. While we city kids dressed in our sharks skins, Cabretta finery, and Cuban heels with horseshoe cleats, the DOOPERS pranced in their madras shirts, penny loafers, and white levis….memories from the corner of my mind.

      1. Well lived in Oak Park for 37 years. DOOPER to Oak Parkers was “Dear Old Oak Park.” Of course in reality Oak Park was the PROOP: the Peoples Republic of Oak Park.

        1. Bruce is correct. DOOPERs stood for Dear Old Oak Parkers, who did dress as James described them. I had DOOPER friends. That appellation was to distinguish them from greasers, and it sounds like James may have been one. The greasers were from the West Side, Forest Park and primarily from Elmwood Park (I don’t remember if River Forest had greasers or not).
          One thing that may be hard to believe – back in the 1950s many, if not most of those DOOPER families were conservatives politically. There was a substantial conservative community in Oak Park, as there was in Evanston.
          That was long before Bruce moved there – the broad lawns and narrow minds of Hemingway’s era.
          Both Oak Park and Evanston shifted their politics in the 1960s. The DOOPERS were part of the last vestiges of the Eisenhower era.

  4. As a young boy growing up in Europe in the aftermath of WWII, I was inundated with newsreels documenting the atrocities committed by the German death cult on Jews and other folk. One thing I could never figure out is how so many people could passively line up to be loaded onto cattle cars that would take them to the death camps. I no longer wonder about that.

  5. From Zinn to Zohran the Left deconstructed the American Soul and far too many people buy into it.

    When The Peoples History of the United States – a graphic novel of a polemic- became touchstone for teaching American history, literature and civics, the window of opportunity flew open for tin-pot clowns like Mandami and Mayor Pinhead of Chicago.

    I am glad that you brought up Edmund Burke, John. He would have mopped the floor with a clown like Zinn.

  6. They don’t read history; they have feelings. They are easy to manipulate, and they want free stuff.
    John, that is such a powerful statement and so true.
    Thank you,
    Tom

  7. This does not bode well for the United States. The urban areas controlled by the now Socialist Democrats will all be in lockstep with these communist policies to no good. Everything will eventually breakdown as it always will, but lives will be ruined and lost.

    Expect ‘Civil War II’ coming to a theater near you soon. And everyone will have a play in that theater.

  10. Great job, as always, Mr. Kass. What bothers me the most about this type of “free lunch” thinking is that I have zero faith in the American public, and I think that they can be sucked into this insanity, as the City of New York has demonstrated.

    During the 50s and 60s, there was a saying “Better Red than Dead”, relating to the possibility of a Communist takeover of the U.S. from Russia. In other words, throw your hands up and join them, at least you’ll be (sic) “alive”. I truly believe that if there were a concerted effort (which has already started) by any powerful group (or foreign country) to completely take over the U.S. that many of our “so-called fellow Americans” would simply lie down and let it happen. And seeing how many of the folks you mentioned have already demonstrated how far they’d go, with no repercussions at all, I think we are getting further and further along.

    There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t worry about what type of world and country my grandchildren are going to inherit.

  11. A good article, but the fear is a little overblown. What actually happened in the last election can be summarized in the simple phrase that Democrats won in heavily Democrat states. Result: more of the same. They are bleeding people and tax revenue & with an unfavorable party in control of the Legislature and White House and they are missing a real opportunity for economic expansion as the US reindustrializes.
    In NYC, realistically look at the choice they had. Mamdani is a communist without the skillsets to run a major city, Sliwa is an ex vigilante leader lacking the same skillsets, and Cuomo, who could run the city, is a phony pervert who resigned in disgrace and is responsible for the covid deaths of many retirees. Mamdani’s people showed up. That what happens after decades of one party rule.
    The 2030 census will reflect this blue to red state migration and 8-12 congressional seats [and electoral votes] will shift and our divided nation will become less divided as our politics stabilize again. A republican win in ’28 should lead to a stable, calmer, and prosperous 2030s. I hope I live to see it.

    1. I’ve got to ask. What makes you think the blue state refugees won’t try to vote in the same kind of lefty morons they just left once they get into their new red state home?

      1. There are two types of expat voters in Red States. Those that bring their shitty politics with them and those that remember why they left. There was a story in our local propaganda outlets, aka The Houston Chronicle stating that over 300,000 new arrivals, mostly from California voted in the last Presidential election. They did not move the needle one bit, Trump carried the state quite comfortably. Texas still remains a Red State. When we escaped Chicago seven years ago and moved here we would see cars with bumper stickers “Don’t California up our Texas”. During “Covid” there was a story that made national news of a local restaurantur who refused to serve anyone not wearing a mask in his restaurant. He made it a point. He was from California but moved here since his wife was from Texas. He went out of business six months later. No violent demonstrations. No threats. No vandalism to his business. He simply had no business. Texans value freedom. Freedom to think. Where they spend money. Don’t California up our Texas. Yes indeed.

        1. I think the difference lies in whether they’re tax refugees or lefties following their employers.

          Lefties following their employers have turned WA, OR, NV, Austin TX and AZ liberal, while true tax refugees from Illinoios and NY have turned Florida even more conservative because they definitely don’t want to deal with what they just left.

      2. Yes. Good point. That is clearly a known phenomena. Blue state refugees who move to red states for job opportunities, milder climate for retirement, often bring their political preferences – left wing lunacy – with them. They do not change.

      3. Why? 1. Most of the blue state refugees will be people who voted against those ‘lefty morons’. Remember, in ‘blue’ NJ 43% of the vote went to Ciattarelli.
        2. Those red states [eg Florida/Texas[?]/SC/Tenn] are so heavily red either there won’t be enough to flip the state [electoral college] or they can bury them in already blue congressional districts.
        Look at Florida. It’s gotten more and more red despite a hoard of emigrants from NYC, NJ, Il, and Ma. People who already dependent upon govt handouts rarely make the effort to move somewhere where they don’t exist. People fed up with those policies leave if they can.

  12. John’s commentary including Orwell’s warning and the righteous terror of the French Jacobins is powerful. This column had such historical depth that it recalled for me a phrase used to describe a wave of terror 17 centuries earlier, when violent tribes began attacking a vulnerable civilization: “barbarians at the gate.”

    The peril posed by American Communists is all that serious. In New York, California, and the Chicago controlled by Brandon’s Idiocracy, the barbarians are not just at the gate. Now they control the gate.

  13. Things do look bleak, but remember Newton’s Third Law Of Physics: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. We are about to see blowback in New York led by Elise Stefanik who will call out Mamdani as well as Hochul. The AWFULs may meet their match.

    1. Ah Cory. You need to become more familiar with my former home town. You see NYC outside of Israel has more Jews than any other place in the world. And many are committed far left socialists … anticapitalists … and even ole commies … and to boot, despise Israel. It’s highly likely that many of them voted for Mamdani. You got to update your revolution axiom: “Can’t have a revolution without some good old fashion Jew, Jew-hate.” (Especially in NYC).

      1. Bruce:
        My father was from Brownsville in the 1920s. Home of Murder Inc. You know what distinguished them, right? The Jewish hitmen for Luciano. So I am well aware of the Jewish factor, and that many voted for Mamdani. Like the SA, they will be the first to be purged.
        Besides people are making a mistake thinking this is just a New York thing. The overwhelming opinion among Democrats is that Israel is a genocide state. You will see more and more run with that as part of their platform.
        This weekend I had some of my progressive friends Emanuel and Pritzker are in the running for the nomination – at least they didn’t mention Shapiro. Are they missing the plot. They have as much chance of being nominated as you do.

  16. This is the end of GOP Trump term in office. They blew it. GOP got elected bcuz cost of living. That’s what they ran on. The public votes their pocketbook ALWAYS. Headline for WSJ, 11/8/25: TRUMP DISMISSES AFFORDABILITY AS KEY ISSUE AFTER GOP LOSSES.
    typical DF politicians. While Americans suffered cost of living increases Orange Man was running around the globe kissing Chinky Charly Commie leaders ass. Then chinky China screws American soybean farmers and buys it from Argentina. Way to go Donald. Thanks for the help. And WHAT did Donald do bout this. He gave $20billion to Argentina.
    Just when the Demorats where on the ropes Trump let’s them get a 2nd wind. American citizens can’t afford health care, certain American fed workers are at their jobs not getting paid, flights are being canceled. Consumer prices rose 3% in Sept. from a year earlier. And DF GOP is surprised they got their asses handed to them this past election. GOP lost 2 governor races by wide margins. There’s more to come if they don’t help the average Joe. The big boys got huge tax relief. What did we get? GESTAPO tactics in Chicago. Do those images not remind you of the Brown shirts in the 1930s Germany. You think that doesn’t influence voters. Just when Hispanics were coming over to GOP Orange Man kicks them in the teeth Stupid fat gut DF. Yes there are criminals who crossed the border but is this the best way to find them.
    Unless the GOP changes course, the Wacky, Woke, Wealthy, Weighty, White Women, better known by me as the 5Ws, will rise again to lead the Demorats to victory. Damn!

    1. For once I agree with you. The Democrats were on the ropes and now they have a second wind. Trump always overplays his hand. He is both the Democrats worst nightmare and their best friend. These recent elections will be dismissed as simply losses in Blue states, when further analysis points to exactly what you are saying. As Democratic wise man James Carville said decades ago: “Its the economy, stupid.”

      1. The Democrats were never on the ropes. It was the traditional Democrats on the ropes. These DSA people were just waiting their turn. Now it has arrived. As several have pointed out here, the traditional Democrats died Tuesday night. No coincidence Nancy called it a day right after this election
        And it is only the economy until they are elected. Then it becomes something very different.
        Just look at the junior varsity DSAer, Brandon Johnson. He could care less about the economy now.
        Like thy do with Trump, they use the economy to pull the levers to gain power.

        1. My only disagreement – although you might be correct – with your analysis is that the Democratic Party had effectively already been commandeered by the DSA such that there really was no longer any “traditional” Democrats (maybe one or two perhaps) in the “traditional” sense (think JFK for instance). This process has been a slow march over the decades, first commandeering our schools and universities (as per Marcuse and Gramsci), then our arts and of course our federal administrative bureaucracy. Finally then arising for all to see in NYC and beyond.

          And you’re right. It is only about the economy until they are elected. Then when elected and they ignore the economy as they all do, and focus on their favorite “thingie”, it becomes “all about the economy” for their political adversaries. And we then start all over again. A never ending circle: “all about the economy.”

  17. Mr. Kass,
    As always a great column.
    The Democrat party, as we are seeing, is becoming a completely different one than we are used to (in the past). Punctuated equilibrium? Starting with Barak Obama and subsequent younger more “diverse” members-add in the money from Soros & son-you slowly (but suddenly) take over an established political party. Gradually replace the existing cadre with more “energetic” members since the existing cadre are becoming irrelevant and toothless and you have a new party using existing infrastructure. I doubt if this is just a phase of the Democrat party that it is going through but a new order. One that America will have to live with -like it or not. The current platform is so enticing to younger people and the poor-free stuff and a distorted form of economic stability. We know from history (like 1918) that it sounds great but in the long run it is a disaster.

  19. Dr. Rudd,

    There’s no money to be made on the right keeping Trump or Republicans accountable. You can selllout, like the Lincoln Project and get money from the Democrats, but the right will pulverize any conservative who is actually conservative. Look at Thomas Massie, Who’s coming to his defense. He won’t bend the knee to the Zionists.

    The right has cancel culture and Karens too. Why do so many fall for this stupid politics of division. These two parties are indeed two cheeks of the same backside.

    Only bitching and complaining, no offer of solutions.

  20. Completely agree. Both sides are in it for themselves. Great salary, corporate like perks, excellent retirements, security etc, etc, etc.
    We have socialism for the rich and pols, capitalism for the rest of us.

  21. The bumbling Mayor Johnson will almost certainly be a one term mayor, and nothing more than an unpleasant asterisk in political history. But Mamdani, with that sinister shit-eating grin is the real deal. As Kass points out he’s charismatic, and very intelligent. Maybe a cross between Lenin and Castro. It will be more than interesting to see how he plays his mayoral “opportunity” to the next level.

    1. Agreed. But he better make sure the garbage gets picked up. If not, he’s toast. Fortunately, no matter what, his “next level” will never be POTUS.

  22. Excellent column.
    I shake my head daily and ask myself what next?
    What comes to my mind often is a song from the 70s Feelings. They played it so much it became annoying.
    “Feelings nothing more than feelings.”
    I have often stated I grew up in Chicago where we teethed on nuts and bolts.
    Now there is a need for a safe space. Lighten up Francis!
    We really need a way back.

  23. Conservative principles are miles and miles behind the 8-ball because of dozing while Marxism tramped its long march through education.
    The dumbing of the masses in public education, whether by failure or design, coupled with the college campus idoctrination, guarantees a generational ready supply of AWFLs. Break that up, if you would have reason again prevail.

  24. Mr Kass Thank you for your usual clear and timely thoughts. One request could all of us using your service refrain from personal attacks or name calling and seethe example of how all our leaders should treat one another even in discussions not in agreement?
    Thank you

  25. The reason that we are where we are is that too many conservatives treat politics as a spectator sport.
    Conservatives will donate their money to candidates, but they won’t knock on doors for those same candidates. They won’t attend rallies. Their money speaks for them.
    I have said for years that we should have been fighting the Democrats using street rules and that is to say that there are no rules, but no; we conservatives “are better than that”. Let the Democrats cheat. We won’t stoop to that. Meanwhile, the Dems are stealing elections at the local, state and federal levels. All the while, liberals have invaded our education systems and were smart enough to know that they had to control the school boards also. “Conflict of interest” issues don’t exist in a liberal’s world.
    They have invested our religious organizations to the point that Christians won’t openly profess their love for God, for fear of “backlash”.
    Nope. Conservatives are the party for law and order. We see something/we say something and that’s the problem. We need to DO SOMETHING.
    Mamdani won because angry white women want young, hot socialists to represent. “Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?”
    Now, they have their gigolo and we will see how a big apple rots in real time.
    And while we watch, progressives will be grinding out their ground game, chewing up those who would get in their way. They will do it with large chunks of cash from the very people they despise and 30% of Jews will STILL vote for people who want them exterminated.
    And conservatives will verbally protest (real protests are “distasteful”), but also knowing that they kept their hands clean while battling those nasty liberals while protecting the Republican brand.
    Oh and keeping the Deep State intact.
    I know I don’t sound very optimistic, which is why “I’m a steamroller, baby” is rolling around in my head.

  26. I would like to ask these women (AWFLs) who they are protesting for if they would be happy if these people lived next store to them and attended their schools. It would be oh no; not in my backyard. Why can’t people get it in their mind that these people broke the law. We have Vets living on the street and nobody is fighting for them. The Vets are not getting free phones, free meal tickets, etc. and they haven’t broken the law, they just went and served our Country with honor. Let us pray for the Vets as their special day approaches. GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
    .

    1. I tried to put in a “standing ovation,” but for some reason, the site won’t allow the use of certain punctuation marks to denote actions.

      So…

      STANDING OVATION

  28. Speaking of Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”…my copy also contains an essay by the Irish author and statesman Conor Cruise O’Brien, in which he makes a very convincing case that the Jacobins ended up providing inspiration not only to the Communists, but also to the Nazis. The people who launched the abortive German revolution of 1848 (when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto) “had their heads full of an intoxicating mixture of French revolutionary mystique and German ‘volkisch’ ideas…[it represented] a stage in the transition and mutation of revolutionary ideas between France and Germany. The National Socialist Revolution of 1933-45 was the culmination of that process,” writes O’Brien. Perhaps the modern American Left, which constantly compares Trump, Republicans and conservatives to Nazis, ought to chew on that one for a while.

  30. “The leftist Democrats who bowed to the radical communists like Mandami enjoy talking of diversity up until the moment they hang you for speaking your mind.”

    Perfect!

  31. The Republicans have plenty of repulsive folks in their tent too. Both of these parties are pretty dysfunctional. I’ve rarely scene a scintilla of criticism over DOGE, both with what they cut, and if you had not problem with that, what they did with the money. No savings, no reduction in spending. Unelected individuals making policy? What the hell was Musk?

    Does anyone remember the campaign? Transparency? Nope. Fiscal discipline? Nope. End the wars? Nope. Epstein files? Fuhgedaboutit!

    They’re still printing a trillion dollars every three months. I hear no cries over the spending and over heating the economy. I’m no fan of the Democrats, but I am blown away by the hypocrisy on the right as well.

          1. Anyway Bruce and Bob, It’s clear that we are screwed. Here’s Kasso, sounding the warning bell about Mamdani. Yes, I’m sure he’s going to stink, but he’s Barack Obama 2.0. He will take the money and sell out his constituents on the first day.

            Systemic change is needed. Open up these offices to more unconnected people, and make the elective process transparent.

            Arnold Schwarzenegger was interviewed recently. He recommended the thing, which would be a great start.

            1. Make Election Day a National Holiday so all who are eligible and want to can vote.

            2. Voter ID, so we know who is voting.

            3. Have independent redistricting that eliminates the social engineering Lowe Luis Guitierrez old district connecting Pilsen and Little Village by one street.

            That’s why I go after Kass. He regurgitates Victor Davis Hansen quite often, but not as well.

            Yes, the Democrats suck ass, anyone on this subscription knows this, you’re preaching to the choir here. The Republicans are not much better though.

            How do WE THE PEOPLE demand better and make things better for our descendants?

            Intellectual heft? Let’s move to Florida and quote Thomas Aquinas.

    3. Robert: Agree 100% with Arnold’s three points. But the devil is in the details … particularly with point #3 – Gerrymandering: problematic since the Court basically washed its hands of the issue and punted back to the states. (Rucho v Common Cause, 2019).

  32. The communist problem never went away. Joseph McCarthy was correct and we didn’t go far enough to root the subversive communist traitors out. Now we suffer for it seven decades later. They slithered into education, entertainment, media, healthcare, and worst of all government. Not good for our future.

    1. Yes. It is absolutely shocking to me, now late in my life, that Sen Joe McCarthy the man who for most of my youth and adulthood personified the very definition of evil actually may have been right. Of course his ranting and ravings did not help, nor his five o’clock shadow (particularly on the new medium, TV), nor his alcoholism, nor his casual attitudes towards due process. But it’s just turns my world view upside down to think that what I once believed was a total lie (communists in our government), was actually fact, and ole crazy Tail Gunner Joe was telling the truth.

  33. On a national level, I’m not worried. Blue states electing blue candidates, partly because many Republicans have left. It may be the first time NYC elected a socialist mayor, but not the first time a major city has elected a socialist mayor (I assume Alice Cooper is correct about Milwaukee’s history). Cities are less important today, because most of us live in the suburbs. When NYC’s socialist experiment fails, it will be great 2026 Republican advertising material.

    My only real concern for the 2026 midterm elections is continuing inflation. Inflation can destroy economies and political systems.

    1. Just elect Republicans? Then you’re voting for status quo.Combine. This is something Kass has written about extensively.

      We’ve got to break the control that the oligarchs have over our politics, policy and our lives.

      It’s our duty to press for reform. What are we leaving for our children and grandchildren?

      1. Clearly this country has not been sending its best and brightest to elected office, and that applies to both the Republican and Democratic parties.
        Does anybody know why?
        Is there some inherent reason?
        Can anything be more important?

        1. Bob: That’s simply not true. Look no further than former Representative Greg Ganske MD (a contributor here at JK news) or Sen Rand Paul MD. You don’t think they are amongst the “best and the brightest?” If not, then you are totally delusional and are confusing your political bias with merit, intelligence and excellence. Dr. Ganske, once in a passing remark stated that many of his former colleagues in the House were hard working, intelligent and diligent.

          The problem in my view is not about the “best and the brightest” but is structural: the old fear of Washington and Adams that political parties would replace the primary allegiance of our representatives from the country to the party. And then of course regarding “expert” rule, I suggest you read Eisenhower’s warning regarding “rule by experts” in his 1960 Farewell Address to the Nation. Both fears and warnings have clearly come to pass.

          1. Bruce, I’m sure these among these men and women are some of the brightest minds in the nation. So then I must conclude not that they fear anything, besides losing their office, not that doing the right thing, or working like hell for your constituents is not what they should be doing, they are crooks.

            I have a dear friend whom is an Evangelical Christian, he quoted from Timothy about money being the root of all evil and how a love of money and power are inducements used by Satan to lure them.

            You seem looked an intelligent fellow, certainly educated, I’m sure very accomplishes as well. Dr. Ganske, Dr. Franklin, Jimmy Banakis, Mr. Hickey, all learned thoughtful people who love the nation. Our host, JK, absolutely loves the nation, the city. I know he’s heartbroken at the way things are going.

            Why not tear it down and start over? Throw out the money changers from the temple and start fresh with the US Constitution as point guiding light? The social contract espoused by Locke? The ideals of the Enlightenment? The bravery and decency of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison?

            We need to halt the theft our our sovereignty sold out for what in comparison is chump change.

  34. Thank you John Kass for this wonderful article. The 16:23 video, The Deadly Reign of Terror by Simon Whistler, was also a renewal of history for me….thank you so much.
    With Simon’s comparison of other “Reigns” much later, he could have included the vote for NYC Mayor. His first “reign” was with over 17,000 losing their heads, physically, and the vote for Mayor of NYC included 50.6% of the voters losing their heads, mentally.
    Yes, Simon’s detailed video truly brings the history of the French Revolution in detail and with our woke and DEI people here showing that same vintage of violence, we need to tap our resources as never before to hush this disaster now.
    Still praying for the Charlie Kirk idea of Faith Family Flag Freedom. I also pray for our USA and or President Trump…..no, I did not forget to pray for you and your family also John Kass.
    God bless you John Kass in wisdom, health and happiness.
    Tom

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