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Miranda Devine: Bruce Blakeman is the antidote to the anti-American poison emanating from Albany and City Hall — but voters must hit the polls

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Once we’re all done setting our hair on fire and wringing our hands about the latest crop of anti-American, Jew-hating, Communist revolutionaries who’ve just grabbed political power, let’s look at the upside.

Hardly anybody voted for them.

And they give Republicans a golden opportunity — if the party can get its act together, and if conservatives and sensible centrists can be persuaded to get off their couches and actually vote — and vote strategically.

No more sitting on the fence.

In the bid to save New York — and the nation — apathy is as much the enemy as the DSA, for Democrats and Republicans alike.

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This is the chance for New Yorkers to get behind the underestimated gem running for governor, Bruce Blakeman.

He is the antidote to the anti-American poison emanating from Albany and City Hall.

The three Democratic Socialists of America candidates endorsed by Mayor Mamdani received a grand total of 125,000 votes, representing 3 percent of all registered Democrats in New York City.

Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13), a community organizer born in the Dominican Republic who wipes her ass with the American flag, will ride into Washington, DC, with fewer than 33,000 votes, representing less than 9 percent of eligible registered Democrats in that district.

That would barely fill Yankee Stadium.

Only 18 percent of Democrats in NY-13 even bothered to turn out to vote in the primaries Tuesday.

It’s a small sampling

It’s the same for Texas native Claire Valdez (NY-7), a union organizer who wants to grant citizenship and........

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