“El-Sayed beat the favored candidate of the Democratic establishment, Congresswoman Haley Stevens. She’s thoroughly progressive but was the moderate compared with El-Sayed.” - National Review
Also: Will Americans take a radical turn? Democratic Socialists and the electoral landscape - World
“Jordan B. Cooper, in his new book, Makers of the Modern Mind: A Guide to the Thinkers Who Formed the Modern Left…. traces the metastasizing of Marxism into an ideology that reduces pretty much everything—truth, reason, culture, language, science, all human interactions—to the oppressive imposition of power.” - Acton
“During their conversation, Maher pushed back against Oswalt’s suggestion that the country is broken and that the political Right is the only side that has ‘freaked out’ in recent years.” - CPost
“Another good source of information about what the Democratic Socialists of America believe is the DSA Political Platform put together in 2021. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but here are some quotations from the document” - Gene Veith
“The disproportionate secularization of white Democrats represents a danger for the Democratic Party, for the country, and for American religion. The danger for the Democrats is clear. America may be more secular than it’s been in generations, but it is still a quite religious country.” - David French
“The leftists who are in ascendancy in the Democratic party are motivated by a strong sense of the moral rectitude of their cause. …their moral convictions about human equality and the worth of each person derive directly from the Christian and Jewish religions. And yet, for the most part, they reject those religions.
“The anarchism of Antifa embodies the revolutionary outlook, common in the West since the 18th century, that reviles traditional institutions, that seeks to undermine authority through random violence and that assumes any violent spark that creates a popular uprising will usher in a utopian world of equality and justice.” - L&L
“I want to answer these two thoughtful essays by showing three paths of inquiry that will further advance our understanding of woke theology and politics. For the foreseeable future, wokeness will remain the central Progressive idea of justice, so a thorough grappling with it is necessary” - Law & Liberty
“California is out front with a diploma that requires lessons in cis-heteropatriarchy, black LGBTQIA, and hip hop resistance.” - TAC
“The Bible and the Left (not liberalism, leftism) are as opposed as any two worldviews can be. While there are people who claim to hold both a Bible-based worldview and left-wing views, these people are few in number. Moreover, what they do is take left-wing positions and wrap them in a few Bible verses.” - National Review
