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Zohran Mamdani might be the best thing to happen to Republicans since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If he wins, the GOP should probably send him a thank-you card and a “get well soon” note to New York City. His radicalism may thrill activists on X and young socialists, but to most Americans, it is a clear signal that the Democratic Party has lost the pulse. They are mistaking polarization for a permission structure to double down on radical ideas. Mamdani’s “democratic socialism” might play well in progressive enclaves like New York City, but outside those circles, it’s political poison. The average American voter does not like socialism, even if it hides behind a “democratic” façade.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” [1]. The American experiment began with a radical idea: rights are beyond the reach of government, anchored in something higher than politics. Elsewhere, these notions lingered as philosophy; in America, they became reality. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, he didn’t say that governments “grant” us rights. He declared that we are endowed by our Creator with rights that are unalienable. These were not just some flowery, nice-sounding words—it was a revolutionary claim about the very source of human freedom that endures this day, nearly 250 years later. This claim reframed the conversation around rights by changing the government’s role from the “giver” to the “guardian” of rights.
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