There wasn’t much conservative voters could’ve done to prevent Tuesday’s ominous far-left election wins – in blue strongholds, after all – except to understand that the populist revolution Trump has given birth to can’t be won in just one or two voting cycles
Conservatives of all stripes need to stop staying home on Election Day.
But in the long term, there’s plenty that God-fearing, Constitution-loving, family-raising law-and-order Americans can and must do to prevent a further slide into socialism and chaos.
In the short term, while Trump has built a unique coalition of staunch conservatives and disaffected Democrats and independents, the latter tend to stay home when he’s not on the ballot.
Moreover, even with nearly two-thirds of the public disapproving of the increasingly out-of-touch Democrat Party, there are still enough habitual Democrat voters to push even the party’s most reprehensible candidates over the finish line.
Indeed, if Virginia Democrat Jay Jones’ fantasy of seeing a political rival shot in the head and his children “die in their mother’s arms” isn’t disqualifying – he nonetheless became the state’s attorney general-elect on Tuesday – then it’s clear no amount of persuasion, logic or appeals to decency will ever redeem the Democrat base or liberate it from its cunning captors.
It doesn’t help that so many furloughed federal workers in Virginia had time to fume about the government shutdown, although a protest vote against the GOP was sorely misplaced during a work stoppage engineered expressly by Senate Democrats.
Instead, conservatives should look to New York City for their wakeup call.
It is there that a coalition of unassimilated immigrants and misguided young voters seduced by the siren call of free stuff via other people’s money elected a socialist, if not a communist, who promises to hollow out the city while perhaps not realizing it.
As upwards of a million commonsense New Yorkers have been promising to escape Zohran Mamdani’s coming communism, red-staters are pleading with them to stay put and not ruin a good thing with their blue-state sensibilities.
“Florida is HORRIBLE,” one red-stater posted wryly on X. “There are alligators and mosquitos EVERYWHERE. And we get hurricanes. Lots of hurricanes. DON’T MOVE HERE!”
Of course, that’s not a long-term answer to creeping communism.
The answer is to replace liberal indoctrination in schools and media with a real education in Americanism and American exceptionalism. Our young, particularly, have been inculcated with the view that America is a bad, racist place and capitalism is somehow holding them back.
Funny how the rest of the world disagrees with that, as the hordes of illegal immigrants under Biden prove.
With Mamdani supported by three-quarters of the city’s voters under 30, conservatives should make a point to educate the generation that follows.
Truth is, it won’t be easy.
There are five pillars of power in American society: government, media, education, business and family. After decades of dedicated effort, leftists have effectively claimed government, most media outlets and much of academia as their own – while making great inroads in cowing corporations and undercutting family sovereignty at every turn.
This is the result, as the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo has noted, of the left’s “long march” through American institutions – largely starting in academia and media.
The term dates back to a strategic military retreat by Chinese communist forces in the 1930s – and as noted by Google AI, it was adopted by German radical activist Rudi Dutschke in the 1960s as “a strategy to create social change by taking control of key institutions like universities, unions, and the media.”
Mamdani is the fruit of that poisonous tree.
Unless that patient leftist indoctrination is countered – by conservatives reasserting themselves in all five pillars of power – there will be many more Mamdanis to come.
