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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political terms are quickly evolving, especially during this election cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrat\u201d once meant \u201cliberalism,\u201d which became \u201cprogressive.\u201d This is giving way to \u201cdemocratic socialism,\u201d which is shorthand for communism \u2014 although it pretends not to be.<\/p>\n

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Several candidates in recent Democratic primaries ran using communist rhetoric, and others campaigned \u2014 and won \u2014 under the banner of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

Defeated Democrats included Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, a left-winger who was the lead counsel to House managers in President Trump\u2019s first impeachment inquiry in 2019.<\/p>\n

Mr. Goldman\u2019s crime was being pro-Israel, something that until recently would not have been controversial in a city with more Jews than any other in the world.<\/p>\n

The big news last week was Graham Platner\u2019s withdrawal from Maine\u2019s U.S. Senate race. The disgraced socialist candidate had been embraced by all major Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.<\/p>\n

At an April campaign rally in Portland, Mr. Platner was hailed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, who said he was \u201cmy kind of man\u201d and later repeated that characterization several times.<\/p>\n

This was long after photos had surfaced of his DSA affiliation, his past statements about being a communist and an anti-Zionist who backed Hamas, and many sexual abuse allegations by women. There was also the Nazi chest tattoo that he had sported for years (but the meaning of which he denied knowing).<\/p>\n

The image: a skull-and-crossbones Totenkopf, a symbol for the death camp guards of the SS.<\/p>\n

As a Babylon Bee headline said: \u201cDems Wishing There Had Been Some Sort of Sign That Platner Was a Bad Person.\u201d After Mr. Platner withdrew from the race, the satirical site ran a spoof photo with this: \u201cNazi Really Regretting Getting Graham Platner Tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although two women \u2014 one a Republican, the other a Democrat \u2014 came forward with credible abuse stories reported in The New York Times in early June, Democrats shrugged. It took a rape accusation against Mr. Platner by the aforementioned Democratic woman, reported in Politico on July 6, to finally trigger buyer\u2019s remorse.<\/p>\n

Democrats are now scrambling to find another socialist nutcase by July 27 to face Republican Sen. Susan M. Collins in November.<\/p>\n

The DSA was founded in 1982 by socialist Michael Harrington, who took pains to include language in its platform disavowing communism. In 2025, the party\u2019s convention dropped the clause.<\/p>\n

This made perfect sense because the DSA\u2019s platform is virtually indistinguishable from that of the Communist Party USA. Both are committed to ending free market capitalism, defunding police, erasing national borders, promoting all things LGBTQ and embracing anti-Zionism, which is shorthand for hatred of Jews. So why pretend anymore?<\/p>\n

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One good reason to keep pretending would be to win elections. Most voters, especially those older than 35, would support the American way of life over communism\u2019s horrific track record. From the Soviet Union to China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, the Chavez-Maduro regime in Venezuela and others, it is an unbroken litany of tyranny.<\/p>\n

Once ensconced, the \u201cpower to the people\u201d socialists abolish private property, persecute religious people, impose a state-controlled media, create mass poverty and commit mass murder.<\/p>\n

It is only because America\u2019s leftist-dominated educators and media have done such a good job covering this up that so many young people have a benign view of socialism and even communism. They like the idea of free stuff at someone else\u2019s expense, as promised by Sen. Bernard Sanders, the Vermont independent and democratic socialist who helped launch Mr. Platner\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized socialist movements as insufficiently revolutionary. Marx later wrote that socialism was a major step on the road to communism. This view was adopted by Vladimir Lenin after his Bolsheviks took over the Russian Revolution of 1917 and murdered the merely socialist \u201cuseful idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Socialism and communism spring from the same poisoned roots: atheism and collectivism. Both ideologies are at war with Christianity\u2019s and Judaism\u2019s biblical belief that people are created in the image of God and thus human life is sacred. The Bible also supports private property and the rule of law.<\/p>\n

The only real difference between socialism and communism is the means of acquiring power. Socialists such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a communist and Islamist, are gaining power via the ballot box amid a shocking takeover of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mamdani finally threw Mr. Platner overboard Tuesday, telling him to drop out.<\/p>\n

It is vital that Americans realize what will happen if this truly red movement \u2014 increasingly powered by an Islamist movement \u2014 is not stopped. Socialism is the final stage of collectivism before the guns come out to crush all resistance, including the \u201cuseful idiots\u201d who enabled it.<\/p>\n

As Mao Zedong said, \u201cPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic socialists won primaries in solidly Democratic districts in New York, Colorado and California. Yet it may well be a very different story around the nation in the midterm elections in November, especially in toss-up districts that Mr. Trump won in 2024.<\/p>\n

Republicans must connect the dots for voters. They need to make Mr. Platner and other radical candidates symbolize where the Democratic Party would take the nation if they win control of Congress this year and the White House in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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