This week has brought more news that contains powerful warnings about the trajectory of the country.

First, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee. In Watson, the court upheld a Mississippi law that counts ballots received up to five days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on or before that day.

Second, a Democratic primary in Colorado produced yet another socialist victory. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer who was born in Ethiopia, defeated longtime Democrat congresswoman Diana DeGette. Kiros' positions have attracted a lot of attention. She refused to call the firebombing attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado, last year "antisemitic," and characterized both the Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of more than 1,000 people in Israel and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States as "inevitable," blaming Israel and the U.S., respectively, for both attacks.

According to the Washington Examiner, 35 candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America have won their primaries so far this year. Nearly a dozen of these are congressional races in safe Democrat districts, meaning that it's highly likely Congress will have a record number of socialists next January.

It's hard to know where to start with this. Collectivist ideologies have produced nothing but economic devastation and political oppression wherever they have been implemented. Contrary to what their propagandists promise, it is not just about higher taxes to fund better services with the objective of helping those less fortunate "get a leg up." These are ideologies steeped in hatred of America, of religion and of freedom. They are peppered with euphemisms like "equity" and "fairness" but grounded in resentment of achievement. They traffic in ignorance, elevate envy, reward sloth, expand government, discourage effort and punish success.

Now, Republicans — and even some Democrats — are wondering how to defeat these........

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