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Manchin: “I support the good ideas. But how could you support some of the crazy stuff they’re for? Have you seen their platform? They’re for dismantling everything that we know, whether it be, whether it be the structure of government, Congress itself, or the Senate they want to get rid of, and then they start talking about all the crazy things, no police, no this, no this, no that. Are you crazy? We want, we want, a crime-free area. We have to have police for that. Yeah. We want a strong defense, we want a strong border. But if Democrats can’t say that, and they start lining up with the socialist demands of how… Energy will be gone. There’ll be no energy, okay? We have right now a tremendous amount of energy we’re producing, and the world depends more on us than ever before.”

Ed: This is a leftover from yesterday, but it may be more apropos tonight if the expected takes place in Michigan. Next week, Francesca Hong will likely win the Democrat gubernatorial nomination for Wisconsin, too. This is a four-alarm fire on the Left, and voters everywhere will need to respond by ensuring Democrats do not take power while the DSA drives the party over the Maoist cliff. 

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Mike Rosen at Complete Colorado: Unable to impose full-fledged socialism all at once, Democrats in the past downplayed the “S” word and settled for a form of creeping socialism that has grown exponentially over decades. A cornucopia of federal “entitlement” programs and related programs of state and local governments now dominate overall government spending, culminating in today’s “welfare state,” driving the national debt to $39 trillion.

Now, in the Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani era, the “S” word has been proudly resurrected with socialism’s modern-day Frankenstein’s monster, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Its radical agenda is driving the feckless Democrat Party to its lunatic left. DSA calls for nationalization of railroads, utilities, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, insurance, real estate, finance, and hospitals along with government control of the media and internet. It would free prisoners, abolish prisons, disarm and defund the police, “demilitarize” the border, end detention and deportation of illegal immigrants, and eliminate ICE.  On national defense and foreign policy, DSA would dramatically cut U.S. military spending, quit NATO, and close all U.S. military bases in foreign countries. …





Furthermore, the DSA platform declares, “Our fight is to end capitalist exploitation. In overwhelming the old barbaric, order of capitalism, the working class will not only liberate itself from its own shackles, but all of humanity from the parasitic death-drive of capitalism.” It’s no coincidence that this is the language of Marx and Lenin. DSA’s notion of “democratic socialism” is only foreplay for outright communism. In the words of David Jenkins, a top leader of DSA, “Our goal is communism.”

Ed: Very obviously. Socialists are hardly even hiding this ambition any longer. The Protection Racket Media keeps trying to obfuscate it for their own narrative purposes, accusing Republicans of “pouncing,” “seizing,” and “Red Scares,” but this isn’t a Red Scare. It’s a Code Red. 

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… and equate anything short of free health care to murder.

Ed: Clearly, El-Sayed sided with the murderer. Just adding the “but” to the end of that clause in his sentence gives oxygen to the idea that murder is a political message that others should heed. And if you think this is where the limit will hold with DSA candidates and their allies, just take a look at the history of revolutionary socialist movements. 

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Politico: In a post to social media Tuesday, Pressley called on voters to elect “champions” like Bush, who is in a heated primary rematch Tuesday in a contest that lays bare the party’s divide over Israel.

“Whether in Massachusetts, Michigan or Missouri, we all need politicians who fight for us, not corporations,” Pressley said. Her endorsement comes as voters head to the polls for primaries in both Michigan and Missouri, where progressive challengers are taking on moderate incumbents.

It marks the second time this primary cycle Pressley has endorsed against candidates backed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Last month, she joined a handful of other Congressional Black Caucus members to support Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney in his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar.





A spokesperson for Jeffries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ed: Either Jeffries is a wimp, or he’s quietly assisting the radicals in seizing control of the Democrat Party. Of course, rumor has it that few in the caucus cared whether Thanedar survived a primary challenge, so Jeffries may not have put a lot of effort into protecting that incumbent. Bell is another matter.  Other House Dems must be wondering why their party leadership is barely lifting a finger to protect them. 

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Ed: Schumer’s getting steamrolled in his own party as leader. He’s no Harry Reid, and I detested Harry Reid. 

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Salena Zito at WashEx: Mik Pappas’s 2017 race for Pennsylvania’s 31st Magisterial District judge offered an early hint that the local Democratic establishment was losing its grip on some of the contests it had once taken for granted. He was underfunded, openly aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and not expected to mount a serious challenge. This made his win all the more instructive.

That pattern became more visible as Sara Innamorato pressed her own challenge to the old guard, with Summer Lee soon following in another race against a familiar political name. By 2018, the pattern was hard to miss: in Allegheny County, disciplined organizing and a willingness to take on entrenched families were beginning to alter the balance of power from the inside.

While Pittsburgh learned early, the rest of the Democratic Party is still catching up. The left did not prevail by accident. It targeted winnable contests, built its infrastructure carefully, and understood that in deep-blue places, primaries are often where political power is really decided.

That is why the movement kept winning even when establishment Democrats assumed old names, old endorsements, and old habits would still be enough to hold the line.

Ed: Worth reading in full, and it’s outside the paywall too. Nancy Pelosi recognized this and stomped her stilettos hard on AOC in 2020 when the Justice Democrats threatened to use this strategy against incumbent House Democrats. AOC backed down from that threat, but now the DSA has adopted it in the impotence of the Schumer-Jeffries leadership era. 





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Ed: This one’s been going viral for about 24 hours now. Is it real? I’m honestly not sure, but if it’s satire, it lands pretty well. Socialists never actually aspire to the proletariat, or even value them as anything more than a means to the seizing of power. 

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John Hinderaker at Power Line: Socialists have won one Democratic primary after another this year. Of course, Democratic primary voters represent a thin slice, the leftward-most portion, of our electorate. Still, socialism as a viable popular movement in the United States represents a radical departure from our history. How wide is the appeal of socialism, really?

Rasmussen headlines “Voters Overwhelmingly Reject DSA Policies,” and its findings are interesting. But while the Rasmussen survey tests four policies being advocated by the Democratic Socialists of America, socialism is not one of them. And I don’t find the results to be particularly reassuring …

In my state, as in this Rasmussen survey, around one-quarter of respondents are detached from reality and are willing to endorse any left-wing proposal, no matter how fanciful. And the percentage is quite a bit higher among the young. 

Ed: Regarding the young, I am mindful of the quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35, you have no brain.” The Quote Investigator research debunks the attribution, but it persists because it speaks to a certain truth about toxic empathy among the young. That’s especially true for a cohort that has marinated in socialist indoctrination rather than being educated in a normal sense by compulsory attendance in government-monopoly schools. This is not reassuring at all, in other words. 

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Ed: Good on Douthat for flat-out rebuking this nonsense. This is sheer idiocy, or perhaps insanity as my pal Casey says, but it’s also a strategy for undermining family structures and making children the property of the state. This strategy intends to accelerate the process of indoctrination into socialist ideologies by removing the last check on it – parents. 





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Ed: That’ll pass the committee with no problem, but the full Senate vote will be an interesting moment. I suspect that Lisa Murkowski won’t support it, and I wonder if Susan Collins will want to demonstrate some independence in her upcoming march against Troy “Kissing Cousin” Jackson. I’ll predict 51 GOP votes in favor, saving J.D. Vance the necessity of casting a tiebreaker. The signal to watch on Thursday will be if Fetterman votes in favor of the contempt charge. He’s the last sane Senate Democrat, although perhaps the long march of the revolutionaries to the Senate’s doors may wake a few of them up.

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Glenn Reynolds:  But while I’d be happy to see Fauci in the dock, his reputational downfall can’t be the end of the COVID reckoning.

So let me repeat: No more Faucis.  

By that I mean we should never again allow a single bureaucrat or a small group to exercise the sweeping and largely unchecked institutional power that Fauci wielded for decades. …

The granddaddy of scientific groupthink is the Soviet school of Lysenkoism, the Marxist-influenced theory of evolution that dominated Russia’s agriculture across three decades, with disastrous results. 

But because Josef Stalin found the concepts espoused by Trofim Lysenko to be congenial, it was deadly dangerous to contradict them.

Ed: It’s a great essay, so be sure to read it all. I’d argue that the problem goes beyond Lysenkoism and roots itself in the Wilsonian structure of technocratic governance. We need to end the process of allowing bureaucrats to create regulations and then having the power to enforce them without specific approval by Congress. “Experts” should not rule; experts should advise elected officials, who then should choose actions or lack thereof. The Wilsonian model rewards Lysenkoism. 

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Ed: And who’s attempting to say differently? The “experts” in the medical and media establishments. 

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NY Post: Kirill Basin, 40, was caught on camera in his underwear, shouting and threatening people relaxing at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei after a 61-year-old man told him to turn his music down. …

He got into an altercation with a large tattooed man, and tried to swing a beach chair at him. But before he could finish his swing, the man threw a powerful right-hand punch and made contact with Basin’s face.

The shot knocked the Hawaii Democrat out cold. The larger fighter rubbed Basin’s sternum until he awoke and made a declaration.

“Watch your f–king mouth Haole boy,” he told Basin, using a pejorative term islanders call white people. The Hawaii Democrat later went back for more after he told the man he would “go to jail.” But he stopped shy of an altercation with the man despite running at him and shouting, “Come on, b-tch!”

Witnesses at the scene allege Basin told beachgoers he had a gun and pulled a knife on the man afterward.

Ed: Basin had been running for Congress. Now he’s trying to raise funds for his $1 million bail after being charged with making terrorist threats. And it’s not even the first time for Basin, who got arrested and charged with the same crime in May after pulling a gun while storming a government building. 

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Ed: FAFO indeed, but Basin doesn’t seem to learn. 

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Ed: Tiffany should mention it early, often, and loudly. I wrote about it this afternoon. I suspect that Tiffany will keep his powder dry until after next Tuesday’s primary, and then go after Hong intensely shortly afterward. Maybe he should post pictures of himself and his family enjoying butterburgers at Culver’s, too. 





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My issue isn’t hate. It’s protecting women, protecting girls, and asking why a WNBA coach chose to inject herself into a controversy that could hurt the very league she’s supposed to represent. Common sense still matters. That’s where I stand.

Ed: This was a late addition to the FW. Glad to see Smith standing for reality. 

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Last night’s lyric: “Life’s Been Good” by Joe Walsh. 


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