July Fourth was a bad day for Democrats.
Americans turned out in force to celebrate the birthday of the country they love, applauding the virtues and values that have made the United States an exceptional nation for 250 years. The silent majority, the folks who believe in the essential promise and goodness of this beautiful land, made their voices heard.
A recent Cato poll confirmed that sentiment, showing that 86% of respondents are grateful and 79% are proud to be Americans. Moreover, “most also believe America is a land of opportunity (61%), and even more believe the American Dream (74%) is available to them personally.” Cato reports that three-quarters of Americans feel positive about the nations founding, and 70% believe its founding principles remain relevant today. “In particular, overwhelming majorities believe the U.S. Constitution is important for protecting our rights and freedoms (86%) and for enabling Americas prosperity (82%).”
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That sure isnt what weve been hearing from democratic socialist darling Zohran Mamdani, who has, incredibly, become the voice of the Democratic Party. In his Fourth of July speech, the New York City mayor lambasted our “nativist” country as one characterized by “monopolies that dominate every industry,” “oligarchs who buy elections” and a “health insurance industry that exploits the sick.”
Mamdanis false and cliche-ridden diatribe doesnt even make sense. In one breath, he excoriates the U.S. as dominated by an exclusive wealthy elite, but in the next, he exults in the “power each of us holds to bring America ever closer to the greatness so many have seen when they looked upon these shores.” How can both those things be true? In an “authoritarian” regime, what power?
The democratic socialist surge, newly led by Mamdani, is real and is terrifying the party establishment. Party leaders New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are running scared as the DSA threatens their political lives. Fifteen House moderates â the kind being wiped out by insurgent leftist newcomers â penned an open letter declaring, “We are capitalist, not socialist,” and “We are mainstream, not extreme.” They also proclaimed, “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” Imagine elected politicians having to make that pronouncement.
Its about time they did.
Democrats have only themselves to blame for the rise of the socialist left. They have offered the country nothing but hatred of Donald Trump for over a decade. They have opposed even the most popular policies proposed by the president, like deporting criminals and reducing taxes. They have absurdly blocked investigating and eliminating hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars lost to fraud every year â a proble