America 250: Our Great Challenge

The whole point of the left is that the middle class, the bourgeoisie, should be regulated, controlled, hemmed in, forced to bend the knee to the hegemonic educated class.

Christopher Chantrill | July 7, 2026

I wonder if Mayor Mamdani and his aides and staffers realize that his July 2, 2026 speech tells us everything we need to know about the clueless bubble he and his DSA friends inhabit. He rails against division:

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.

Then he spends the rest of his speech stirring up division: us against them, like a true student of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.

We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more… We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands… and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.Advertisement if (window.publir_show_ads) { document.write(''); }

We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more…

We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands… and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

No, Mr. Mayor. You and your lefty aides and staffers are Klue Less. Our great national wealth did not........

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