It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of "Democratic Socialists" — once they find power.

Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like — and even appear comfortable being called — communists.

With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists.

How about declaring capitalism a failure?

All the socialists now do that — and even Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom has also started agreeing that "capitalism as we know it doesn't work either." Oddly, Newsom himself, a multimillionaire and a beneficiary of arch-capitalist Gordon Getty's largesse, seems to have done quite well under capitalism.

Confiscating private property?

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he will do just that if New York's landlords, in his opinion, are poor custodians of their own property.

Dismantling the U.S. Constitution?

Almost all Democrats have long called for destroying the 238-year-old Electoral College. And now the socialists openly brag that, when they take over the Democratic Party and then the nation, they will, as good Bolsheviks, go much further: destroying the Senate, destroying the Pentagon, destroying prisons, destroying the police, and destroying our borders.

And they want to take over utilities, break up or absorb corporate agriculture, and own major industries. Apparently, socialists believe that with a snap of their fingers they can destroy key elements of the U.S. constitutional order. Would these "socialists" even resent their agenda being called "communist"?

They also seem to have taken their cue for such radical change from "mainstream" Democrats — for example, Kamala Harris. Now in her third vain bid for the presidency, she has adopted the doctrine of "if you can't beat them, join them." So Harris now promises that if she is elected, she will pack the court, admit two new blue states (to snag four liberal senators), end the filibuster, and junk the Electoral College. How she plans to amend the Constitution to that effect she never tells........

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