A new political “threat” from the left is causing significant alarm among Americans who are concerned about the country’s future.
And ironically, it is rising just as the United States has reached its 250th anniversary.
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In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” House Speaker Mike Johnson called the rising tide of “democratic socialists” on the left “a serious threat to our whole system of government.”
“Since [Zohran] Mamdani got elected in New York, I’ve been out on the campaign trail country wide, across coast to coast, every swing district, the blue states, red states saying the same thing,” Johnson told anchor Shannon Bream.
“There are many Mamdanis popping up, running for Congress around the country, and you better be very serious about this. This is a serious threat to our whole system of government,” he said.
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The Louisiana Republican also identified exactly what the so-called “democratic socialists” really are.
“It’s communism, socialism. Those are deviations of Marxism,” he explained.
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“It begins with the opposite premise of America, and it is a serious threat to us,” he continued.
“These people want — they’re saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders. They want to abolish all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want to abolish the U.S. Senate,” he added.
“They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control of all production,” he said.
“This is communism, and it has led to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of them in the 20th century alone,” the Speaker continued.
“We have to fight this. We’re no longer just in an election cycle,” he said.
“We were saying it was common sense versus crazy. Now it’s common sense versus communism. And everybody needs to wake up,” Johnson noted.
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Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, traveled to Mamdani’s New York City on Saturday and gave an Independence Day speech that was worthy of praise.
His speech followed one on Friday from Mamdani, and the contrast couldn’t be more stark.
While Mamdani used the occasion – sitting behind George Washington’s desk – to trash the country that took him in and has given him so much, Vance’s speech focused on all the good that America has done for its citizens and for the world.
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“We celebrate 250 years of America facing the future without fear. We celebrate 250 years of proving what a free people can achieve by the providence of our almighty Creator,” he said.
Vance went on to urge the country to unite on America’s 250th birthday and remember exactly why and how it was founded.
“We are a people formed by generations of self-governance and personal industry. We are formed by Frontier Assembly Hall and Congregation, by River Valley and Prairie and Factory Floor,” Vance shared.
“We are formed by the conviction that we are bound to one another, not only by bloodline or creed alone, but by a common character, a shared faith, a shared future,” he said.
The VP, speaking on the USS Kearsarge in New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, told military members and other attendees to “reject the two-dimensional view” that ignores the historical figures of all walks and ethnicities who contributed to the greatness of the country.
“Everything that we have done, everything that we have done as a country, we have done together. Not as citizens divided against each other, but as a common people working towards a common future.”
“When we won our independence, we were led by General Washington to liberty and greatness, but marching ahead of them were thousands of boys from all over the new nation who gave Washington’s military genius its foundation and its firepower,” he said.
“All of us have a part. All of us had our part,” he added.
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