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Socialism moves into the mainstream — the warning signs are all here

One of the greatest lies propagated in the media is that the Democratic Socialists are just a far-left wing of the Democrat Party

By Jeremy Hunt Fox News

Published August 11, 2026 9:00am EDT

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For the 333 million Americans who don’t live in New York City, there are plenty of reasons not to care what goes on there. It doesn’t affect our day-to-day lives. New Yorkers democratically elected their socialist leader. It’s their bed, let them lie in it. Or as the mainstream media likes to put it, it’s probably just hyped-up right-wing hysteria.

And of course, that’s exactly how the communists in our country want us to think.

But right now may be the most important moment to push back. It’s incumbent on all of us to resist the normalization of socialism in America. Speak up now, so that what’s radical in New York today doesn’t become the norm........

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