The American left has lost its mind, and the media seem unbothered

For the last decade, legacy news outlets have produced endless handwringing over the rise of President Trump and “MAGA-aligned” Republicans. And what some have called a “hostile takeover” of the Republican Party has indeed been a problem, arguably turning the party into a personality cult. But at least it has been acknowledged.

The radical progressive and socialist takeover of the Democratic Party poses an equal, if not greater, problem. But one would hardly know it, given our media’s selective sense of urgency.

The last three years have seen a flurry of activity both inside and outside the political space, suggesting a shift toward ever-more extreme and revolutionary leftist activity. There have been at least three assassination attempts against President Trump, a targeted political assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (celebrated publicly by a shocking, embarrassing number of liberals), multiple deadly or potentially deadly attacks on government facilities and officers by leftist radicals, and actual hostage-taking by pro-Hamas student activists.

Meanwhile, in the electoral space, Democratic voters are continuing the trend of nominating socialists for both state and federal office. Avowed socialists now rule Seattle and New York. One of them will soon be mayor of Washington, D.C. — perhaps also Los Angeles.

The swath of socialist Democrats nominated last week in New York — some of them defeating longtime incumbent Democrats — are not just ignorant, inexperienced and hostile toward the United States as a concept. They are also opposed to fundamental social frameworks that make life in a free society possible. Some of them, for example, do not even support imprisoning murderers and other violent criminals, let alone deporting criminal aliens.

This new breed of Democrat also makes litmus tests of extreme fringe positions on issues that poll 80-20 against them. This is not a continuation of Democratic politics in a new direction, but a hostile takeover of the party by revolutionaries who want to scrap its modern center-left ethos altogether.

Outside of conservative media, there have been few, if any, doomsday warnings about this — certainly not from the........

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