In a country as historically committed to freedom and individual responsibility as the United States, the success of a candidate like Zohran Mamdani should be unthinkable. Yet, nearly one million New Yorkers recently cast their votes for a man openly campaigning on a socialist platform—and celebrated it like a cultural victory. This moment isn’t just a political shift; it’s a red flag for something much deeper and more dangerous.

Let’s be honest: this didn’t happen overnight. The groundwork for Mamdani’s rise was laid over decades through a systematic erosion of civic and historical education in America’s public schools. Where students once learned about the horrors of socialist regimes—economic ruin, repression, genocide—today they’re subjected to a sanitized or outright sympathetic version of socialism that ignores its real-world consequences. And this isn’t happening by accident. It’s the result of Marxist influence taking root in our institutions and reshaping the narratives that shape young........

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