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

An important Senate primary is taking place in Michigan, pitting two candidates for the Democrat Party nod against each other: Rep. Haley Stevens versus rival Abdul El-Sayed. And the headliners from various media outlets go like this: Stevens is backed by \u201cparty establishment,\u201d while El-Sayed is \u201cendorsed by progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,\u201d as Fox News wrote. Or this: \u201cEl-Sayed, who is running as a progressive candidate\u201d \u2014 as the Detroit Free Press put it. Or this: El-Sayed in 2018 \u201cran for governor of a similarly progressive platform\u201d as he\u2019s doing now for the Senate, as Bloomberg wrote it.<\/p>\n

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Make it stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using the word \u201cprogressive\u201d to describe what\u2019s really socialist is a lie. And using the word progressive in place of the label socialist, while conveniently ignoring the fact that both are one and the same as communist, is a whitewash of truth.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed, like Ocasio-Cortez, like Sanders, like many, many, many others operating under the label of \u201cDemocrat\u201d as they work their politics through the Democrat Party \u2014 are socialists, which is to say Marxists and communists. They\u2019re collectivists and stand in direct opposition to the limited government ideals of the Constitution. They want a capsizing of law and order, a destruction of American borders, an upset of the justice system, a clamp on capitalism, a redistribution of all wealth. Wake up and smell the tyranny. At the very least, quit covering for the tyrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But America\u2019s media have really enabled the far left to infiltrate and dominate the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

By failing to call out progressivism years ago as the socialism it truthfully is, members of the press have allowed Democrats to play a dangerous word game with the public. Remember this?<\/p>\n

From the American Presidency Project webpage, a rundown of a January 2016 interview between MSNBC host Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton:<\/p>\n

Matthews: \u201cYou\u2019re a Democrat. I would say you\u2019re a pretty typical Democrat in the tradition of the Democratic Party. \u2026 What\u2019s the difference between a socialist and a Democrat?\u201d<\/p>\n

After a bit of back-and-forth, during which Matthews said, \u201cWould you like somebody to call you a socialist? I wouldn\u2019t like somebody calling me a socialist,\u201d and after which Clinton answered, \u201cWell, but I\u2019m not one. I\u2019m not one\u201d \u2014 then came this from Clinton: \u201cWell, I can tell you what I am. I am a progressive Democrat. I am a progressive Democrat \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matthews interrupted: \u201cHow is that different than a socialist?\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton continued her thought: \u201c\u2026 who likes to get things done and who believes that we\u2019re better off in this country when we\u2019re trying to solve problems together, getting people to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yada meet yada.<\/p>\n

That interview, interestingly enough, came on the heels of another interview Matthew conducted in which he asked the same question of then-Democratic National Committee chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz \u2014 and as Matthews told Clinton, Wasserman Schultz \u201cwouldn\u2019t answer the question, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats have a long dance with the truth over their true agenda.<\/p>\n

They want a socialist nation \u2014 which is to say a Marxist and communist nation.<\/p>\n

They just don\u2019t want to let on that they want this because they know it\u2019s too soon for voters to accept that truth. From progressive to progressive-democrat to democratic socialist \u2014 to now, candidates who were openly endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America have rocked the political world with Democrat Party primary wins. It won\u2019t be long before Dems shed the DSA label completely and toss in openly with the Marxists and communists.<\/p>\n

One day, New York City\u2019s Marxist-marching mayor, Zohran Mamdani, could be seen as the moderate voice of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

The media factors into this political shift when members of the press who should know better, who do know better, nonetheless refuse to do what\u2019s best and call out the spade as spade. Politicians who claim to be progressive or democratic socialists or endorsed by the DSA ought to be pressed by the press to explain the difference between Democrat and whatever label of choice is instead being used. Politicians who fail to explain the difference \u2014 and take it to heart on this; they can\u2019t explain the difference because the truth will get in the way of their explanation \u2014 ought to be referred to as socialists and communists and Marxists in the news.<\/p>\n

Journalists are supposed to be in the business of reporting facts and truths.<\/p>\n

Allowing leftist politicians to get by with hiding their anti-American ideologies under the cloak of a safe Democrat Party is a bias of the worst kind. It doesn\u2019t just advance a lie. It advances a cover for a very destructive force that is rapidly seeping into the government and destroying America from within. For the love of God \u2014 for the love of America \u2014 let\u2019s stop allowing the lies of the Democrats to go forth unchallenged.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cheryl Chumley can be reached at\u00a0cchumley@washingtontimes.com\u00a0or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast \u201cBold and Blunt\u201d by\u00a0clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by\u00a0clicking HERE. Her latest book, \u201cGod-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,\u201d is available by\u00a0clicking HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n

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