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FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE DEMOCRATS BUT I WAS NOT A DEMOCRAT…SO !
JEFF CHILDERS SUNDAY SPECIAL IS A MUST SEE : PAYWALLED . SO POSTED IN THE COMMENT SECTION…COMPLETE WITH THE TRANSCRIPT OF MARCO RUBIO’S EPIC SPEECH ON THE RISE OF COMMUNISM IN THE USA
Yesterday, more cracks appeared in the fracturing Democrat Party. Very public ones, in fact. Two main events seem to have provoked the latest round of tardy introspection. One was an interview earlier this week on Fox. Martha MacCallum interviewed the NYC Democratic Socialists’ co-chair, a soft-spoken Peruvian-American named Gustavo Gordillo. Here’s a clip where Martha cleverly asks him: What, if any, profit margin should a landlord be ‘allowed’ to make?
https://x.com/RedWavePress/status/2078470471767437729?s=20&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The answer, though Gustavo sagely refused to commit, was nevertheless: none. No profits. How this incentive-destroying theory was supposed to address the housing crisis remained an open question.
You could write these folks off as a nonserious group of cranks and kooks— except that they now control New York City and its Godzilla-like $110 billion annual budget. (For more, here’s Gordilla explaining why his parents fled communism in Peru, if it was so wonderful. Spoiler: it was the US’s fault.)
Last week’s second big development was that, astonishingly, amidst all the recent controversy, the DSA confidently published its 2026 political platform— a mini-platform within the Democrat platform writ large. They didn’t even try to hide their radical, extreme, revolutionary goals. Just the opposite.
In short: the DSA doubled down. On Wednesday, the Washington Times reported, “Democratic Socialists of America’s new platform calls for abolishing ICE and the U.S. Senate.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/15/updated-dsa-platform-calls-abolishing-ice-scrapping-senate/
If anything, the WaTimes’s headline soft-sold it. The platform insisted that “the country’s political institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up.” If that’s not a call for a revolution, then I don’t know what that word means.
Their platform also calls for abolishing the Supreme Court, nationalizing big corporations, blanket amnesty, “queer liberation” (whatever that means), “feminism for all” (ditto), and abolishing what the platform euphemistically calls “the carceral state,” meaning incarceration, and yes, they actually want to abolish jail.
They also want to eliminate the U.S. Senate, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court with a president and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. Because nothing screams “democracy” like a single, massive, unchecked legislative body ruling over everyone.
“We push these demands to their furthest extent today,” the platform said, “so we can fight for their fullest realization in a socialist future.”
This, my friends, is how the Democrats made their own bed. Now they must lie in it. The DSA “crime” platform is the logical endpoint of “defund the police.” Like, completely defund them. The Democrats have run for years against ICE and local police (think George Floyd). The DSA is now telling Democrat voters, “yeah! C’mon, guys! Let’s just throw out the whole rotten system and start over!”
See the problem? It’s true that, once murder rates spiked after defunding cops, many Democrats gingerly walked “defund the police” back. But they never reset the Overton Window by admitting it had been a mistake. In other words, Democrats never put the ball away. They just left the ball on the field for the DSA to pick up and run with.
The socialists are outsmarting the Democrats. The DSA is tapping into the many rich veins of irrational BS that democrats have carefully nurtured. First, they are mainlining TDS. “Everybody sees that Trump is super evil,” said Frances Gill, a National Political Committee member from DSA Los Angeles who presented the platform at the recent national conference. “I mean, every president since the founding of the country has been super evil, but somehow we have one that is even more evil, and people get that,” she told DSA members.
The reactions by “moderate Democrats” to the Fox interview were swift and strong. First, here’s former Clinton official and Democrat influencer Jamie Metzel (80K followers) explicitly rejecting the DSA on Twitter, in an appalled response to Gustavo’s calm but revolutionary words.
https://x.com/JamieMetzl/status/2078550101182840928?s=20
I don’t disagree with Jamie, but note his first concern. “The DSA represents a fundamental threat to our party,” he said, before (correctly) noting the DSA’s threat to the country itself. There’s a good reason for his priorities. Long before posing a threat to the country writ large, the DSA will first marginalize the Democrat Party and banish it to the political wilderness for a generation. (A possibility I’ve predicted many times before.)
It’s a classic historical pattern. In the 1980s, the UK Labour Party was nearly destroyed from within by a Trotskyist entryist faction called the Militant Tendency. It took them years to purge the radicals and become electable again. The DSA is the American Militant Tendency, and the Democrats are just noticing the infection.
So the DSA poses an immediate threat to Democrats, more so than to the US writ large. Of course, it’s like monkeypox. Once it takes root, socialism tends to spread quickly and in the most painful and embarrassing spots.
Next up was Van Jones, a former Clinton/Obama official, political advisor, influencer, and now (suddenly) a moderate Democrat. (We didn’t realize there was any moderate position remaining. Obviously, we were all wrong.) Jones has complained about the DSA before, but this time he went all-out.
https://x.com/VanJones68/status/2078517905554288900?s=20
“A quick message to my friends on the far left,” Jones began, in the polished, well-produced clip. “I am tired, tired, tired of people on the very far left in the Democratic Party, my party, telling us that we now have to believe and support ideas that are completely nuts.” He was about as clear as he could be: “Quit pooping in the Kool-Aid bowl and telling us that the turds are ice cubes.”
Jones is smart. To preserve the illusion of “moderation,” he carefully avoided 80/20 topics like men in girls’ sports or voter ID requirements. Which suggests his message wasn’t for us, Republicans, or even the public at large. He was talking to fellow Democrats.
Even veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has been sounding the alarm. “I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the S-word: schism,” he said on his podcast recently, adding that he’s “not in the same f***ing political party” with the DSA.
In other words, Jones, Metzl, and Carville all seem to believe that Democrats need to be warned against or talked out of siding with the DSA wing.
The Republicans, meanwhile, are not sitting around playing tiddly-winks. A full, public campaign against communism is now rolling out piece by piece. (Long overdue, in my opinion.) Thursday, Reuters reported, “US will focus counterterrorism efforts on left-wing groups, Rubio says”
US will focus counterterrorism efforts on left-wing groups, Rubio says
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-will-focus-counterterrorism-efforts-left-wing-groups-rubio-says-2026-07-16/
FULL RUBIO SPEECH
https://x.com/KatiePavlich/status/2077881903135257085?s=20
In a rousing major address that everyone should watch, Secretary of State Marco Rubio also took the gloves off. “Rubio told officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday that the US would seek to refocus international counterterrorism efforts on what he called ‘far-left terror’,” the paper reported, “arguing that left-wing violence had long been overlooked.”
“Under President Trump, for the first time,” Rubio told delegates, the United States is building the infrastructure, the partnership, and the strategy to defeat the scourge of far-left terror.”
“Last November,” the Secretary explained, “the State Department designated four violent far-left extremist groups as foreign terrorist organizations, and there will be more designations soon.”
Those four groups —Antifa Ost, the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense— are all European, which tells you something important: this isn’t just a domestic political grudge match.
This new initiative —announced with conspicuously good timing to the DSA infection outbreak— described a worldwide infrastructure, and the administration is mapping it all out, which is why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also spoke.
The reward for information on the groups’ financing? Up to $10 million per group.
As I said, this was long overdue. “None of this that I’ve just described is new. Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day modern novelty. Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist left,” Rubio explained. He then delivered one of the strongest and most rousing condemnations of communism in recent memory, which earned its own panel:
This new initiative —announced with conspicuously good timing to the DSA infection outbreak— described a worldwide infrastructure, and the administration is mapping it all out, which is why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also spoke.
The reward for information on the groups’ financing? Up to $10 million per group.
As I said, this was long overdue. “None of this that I’ve just described is new. Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day modern novelty. Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist left,” Rubio explained. He then delivered one of the strongest and most rousing condemnations of communism in recent memory, which earned its own panel:
Watch the whole thing. Or, if you prefer, I have attached a transcript at the bottom of today’s post, with my subtitles for easier navigation.
Naturally, Democrats are complaining that this focus on left-wing groups is “politically partisan.” Because to a modern Democrat, arresting a communist for firebombing a pregnancy center is an unconstitutional partisan attack, while arresting a grandmother for praying outside an abortion clinic is just good old police work.
All in all, what we are watching unfold is a curious historical inflection point. As even Democrats like Jamie Metzl and Van Jones now admit, the Democrat Party has long nursed a viper at its breast.
In recent tweets, I have argued that the DSA outbreak is less a sign of rising socialist sentiment and more of a symptom. It’s a symptom of Democrat party weakness. The party’s immune system is compromised. It has long kept a lid on the radicals in the party; it appears unable or unwilling to do so now.
And it’s happening now— with just over three months to go before the midterm elections. Convenient timing, no?
The combination of DSA influence, incomplete Democratic corrections, failures like Graham Platner, extreme candidates like James Talerico, and visible governance missteps —the polycrisis— has handed Republicans a clearer, more coherent electoral narrative than they’ve had in most recent cycles.
As Rubio’s speech eloquently illustrated, the Republicans are running against the DSA. And they are doing more than just talking.
Democrats recognize the risk; Metzl and Jones’ public critiques should be seen more as strategic distancing than true ideological distinctions. But Democrats need three things they don’t have in order to beat the DSA in a compressed timeline before November.
They need a strong bench, a strong leader, and a war chest. They lack all three. In the compressed pre-midterm window, these shortfalls compound. It’s a self-reinforcing doom loop —a “polycrisis”— where the mechanisms of correction themselves have been compromised.
As Margaret Thatcher famously observed, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” The Democrats are currently discovering the political corollary: The problem with pandering to socialists is that you eventually run out of the public’s patience.
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JEFF CHILDERS
Secretary of State Marco Rubio — Speech on Far-Left Terrorism
International Counterterrorism Conference, U.S. State Department
Thank you all. Thank you all for joining us here today. I’m very honored that this distinguished group of people that have traveled from around the world to be a part of this important conversation. We’re grateful to you. I also wanna thank members of the president’s team and cabinet that are here today. Our FBI director, Kash Patel, who’s here with us. Thank you. Our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, has joined us as well. You’ll hear shortly from Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff, and one of his top advisors on homeland security issues as well.
And of course, our Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent, is here.
But again, I wanna thank all of you, all of you that are here today. I wanna thank the whole team here at the State Department as well for putting this together. It’s truly an unprecedented event on an unprecedented moment, I should say, in our history.
The First Duty of Government: Protecting Its People
So let me start by saying that the most essential duty of the state, the first responsibility, frankly, of any government of any kind, is the protection of its people. It’s the protection of its country. This is a sacred obligation that should transcend all political and all ideological divisions. It is why, for example, we have militaries. It’s why we have intelligence agencies. It’s why counterterrorism bureaus exist, why police forces exist. Keeping our people safe is the reason why every country represented here has all of these things.
The War on Radical Islamist Terror — And Its Success
We are all very well acquainted, as of now, of course, by now, with what has been described as traditional terrorist threats. For twenty-five years, the term counterterrorism, at least in the West, has meant first and foremost the fight against radical Islamist extremism, and there’s a very poignant reason for that. On the 11th of September, in the year of 2001, nineteen men murdered three thousand people here in my country. Then that same enemy struck Europe, murdering nearly two hundred commuters aboard trains in Madrid in 2004, and fifty-two more aboard London buses and the Underground in the following year. The entire architecture of Western counterterrorism was rebuilt from the studs around that singular traumatic event. That made sense at the time. Our job was to keep our people safe, and in the realm of terrorism, the specter of global jihad was the premier threat to their safety.
And so we went to work, and we assembled a global coalition.
Working with many of the friends that are represented here in this room today, we destroyed the ISIS caliphate. We killed al-Baghdadi and al-Zawahiri and bin Laden, and we built intelligence and law enforcement systems capable of anticipating and stopping attacks before the public even hears about them. Every country represented here today has disrupted a terrorist threat at some point emanating from this source. Jihadist attacks and plots in the United States are down by two-thirds since ISIS’s peak. The number of people killed by jihadist terrorism in Europe dropped by roughly ninety-seven percent from the year 2015 to the year 2024.
In other words, to a very great extent, our counterterrorism strategy has worked. The threat has not disappeared, of course. It will continue to exist, particularly so long as we tolerate immigration systems that import these threats directly into our respective homelands, but this threat has been severely diminished. The world looks very different today because of it.
The Blind Spot: Far-Left Terror Has Been Ignored and Excused
For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia, in our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference. In spite of the clear and the undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum, we will hear that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction.
A whole industry grew up in our countries around the study of extremism. We have think tanks and fellowships and journals and consultancies with the unspoken understanding among them that only one kind of political violence was a true threat to the system.
A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is. But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary — well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism. Perhaps its means were misplaced or overzealous, but its ends were virtuous and just. That’s the implication of how they treat it.
For years, this extraordinary ideological prejudice was embedded in the way we talked about political violence and extremism. It was repeated again and again until it was accepted as the neutral and objective baseline, so entrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom that it came to be regarded as an apolitical fact.
It is the reason why, here in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression, so long as they served a left-wing cause. It is why during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror. It is the reason for the now infamous image — maybe you all recall this — of a news anchor from a very prominent agency, a news anchor standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames, while the chyron on the bottom read that the protests were mostly peaceful. This was something worse than a double standard.
Left-wing violence was not just excused — it was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself. That era has to end.
Why This Coalition Is Here: Recent Attacks Across the West
The coalition in this room today includes political leaders and experts and law enforcement officials from more than sixty countries across the world. You have come here from a wide range of governments, parties, and political persuasions. Some of your governments and ours disagree publicly. Sometimes we disagree sharply about trade, about energy, about immigration. You did not come here today because you have been persuaded on every single aspect of the American view of the world.
You came here, you are here, because two weeks ago, a seventy-two-year-old woman was burned on over eighty percent of her body in her own home in Greece, and she died — executed by a firebomb because her daughter dared to stand for office.
You are here today because for five days this winter, the lights went out in Berlin, the longest blackout in the city since the Second World War, sparked by an attack that left tens of thousands of households without power in the freezing cold and left an eighty-three-year-old woman dead. You are here, and you came, because a month after that Berlin blackout, a French twenty-three-year-old succumbed to traumatic brain injuries, beaten to death on the streets of Lyon by a group of far-left militant thugs.
You are here because your political leaders are being attacked and stabbed and shot in your streets, because your businesses have been bombed, because your railways have been sabotaged, because your police officers have been beaten and burned. You are here because this is real, and it is getting worse, and it can no longer be denied, and it can no longer be ignored — because it is time to crush this evil forever.
Far-Left Terror Is Not New: A History of Violence
The simple fact is, none of this that I’ve just described is new. Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day modern novelty. It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians. For most of the modern era, it was, in fact, the dominant form of political violence. Every one of our friends here from the nations of the Western Hemisphere remember. Remember the decades of kidnappings and bombings and assassinations and executions — the violent terror of the Tupamaros, of the Montoneros, of the FARC, of the ELN.
You remember the inhuman savagery of Peru’s Shining Path, the Maoist fanatics who massacred the peasant villages of Peru, hacking pregnant women and newborn infants to death with axes and machetes. You remember the tens of thousands of Marxist guerrillas trained to kill in Castro’s terrorist camps.
All of you here from Europe remember. You remember the machine gun massacres of Italy’s Red Brigades, which held a five-time prime minister captive for fifty-five days before subjecting him to a revolutionary so-called people’s trial and executing him in 1978. You remember the Red Army Faction’s nearly three-decade campaign of bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations in Germany, murdering dozens and injuring hundreds more. You remember the 17 November organization in Greece, the Marxist extremists that terrorized Athens for more than a quarter century, including, by the way, shooting my country’s CIA station chief dead outside of his home in front of his wife as they were returning home from a Christmas party.
And here in America, we remember. We remember the same reign of deadly terror justified by the same slogans, motivated by the same wicked ideas. We remember the Weather Underground, which bombed the Pentagon, which bombed the State Department, and bombed the Capitol. We remember the Black Liberation Army, which staged armed robberies and executed police officers at point-blank range.
We remember the Symbionese Liberation Army, which shot a public school superintendent to death with cyanide-packed hollow-point bullets. In one 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, the FBI counted some 2,500 bombings on American soil — a rate of nearly five a day. The overwhelming share of that violence came from left-wing extremists. Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist left.
These are numbers that would shock most Americans today because we’ve been taught to believe that this kind of political violence simply doesn’t exist or it’s being exaggerated. But it does exist, and we’re actually underestimating it, and our nations bear the scars to prove it.
The New Wave: Far-Left Terror Is Rising Again
And today, we face a new wave of this old evil. Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40% in just the last year alone. In Greece, more than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors. These are not abstract statistics.
Americans have seen what those numbers mean. An all-out assault on our immigration officers — sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes. A transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, “Where is your God now?”
A healthcare executive executed in cold blood in the streets. Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president, and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.
The Nature of the Evil: A Hatred for Civilization Itself
This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred — above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalists or anti-imperialists or communists or anarchists or Marxists, but the fundamental character is always the same. It’s always the same.
It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us.
The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That’s actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God.
For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization is, for them, an unbearable humiliation — a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines. They attack railroads. They attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today.
They despise the West because the West is great.
A Transnational Threat Requiring a Transnational Response
This is an international conference because we are facing a transnational threat. These are not distinct and isolated cells. They are interconnected networks. They do not recognize our borders. They do not believe, in fact, in the nation-state itself. They coordinate, they communicate, they travel, they train, and they act together, sharing the same infrastructure, sharing the same enemies, sharing the same mission. Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks, to funnel propaganda and training materials and target information through shared encrypted channels, moving through underground networks of safe houses and finance, and sustain their operations through transnational funds. And they work alongside hostile foreign states that share their mission, like Iran’s proxy networks, who are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world.
The Cuban regime’s sprawling intelligence and ideological network helped to build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere, and it remains inextricably linked to the far-left groups and movements across and beyond the West.
Today’s far-left terrorists can raise money in one country. They can host their communications in a second country. They can receive training in a third country. They can recruit militants in a fourth country, and then together strike a target in a fifth country. And so we have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders, or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them.
What the Trump Administration Has Already Done
Under President Trump, for the first time, the United States is building the infrastructure, the partnership, and the strategy to defeat the scourge of far-left terror. The president signed National Security Presidential Memorandum Number 7, outlining a comprehensive strategy to investigate and disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies. Last November, the State Department designated four violent far-left extremist groups as foreign terrorist organizations, and there will be more designations soon.
In December, we announced Rewards for Justice, offering up to $10 million for information disrupting the financing behind these groups. In May, we convened the first Counterterrorism Law Enforcement workshop, joining American law enforcement officials and their counterparts in our partner nations together to map and develop strategies for dismantling these networks. The next workshop will be co-hosted with our partners in Germany. The coalition we’re building together is already bearing fruit, and we are here today to build on that work.
Closing Call to Action
We can, and we must, identify and map this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it, just as we have done together before. Now we must do it together again. Through intelligence and information sharing, through coordinated law enforcement strategy, through financial targeting and disruption, we will dismantle these networks brick by brick.
It is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness and fight — fight for what is ours. It is easy to destroy great things. It is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilization are only capable of the former. They are only capable of destroying great things. All they know is destruction.
But we have built great things together. We have done it time and again. We know what we must do, and now we must do it. Thank you for coming today
I think I posted Rubio’s speech earlier.
Worth listening to HIM directly.
The appeal of socialism is NATURAL. It stems from ENVY.
Its not going away.
But our society, with its historic degree of Income and Wealth Inequality, begs for Socialism’s further ascent.
And it begs for a Well Considered Capitalist response that differs markedly from what we have today.
We don’t have classical capitalism (except on fringes) and everybody knows it.
Part of it is that Congress has been captured to protect ECONOMIC incumbents, not just political.
Part of it is that Antitrust has been an epic failure.
Part of it is that bankers are only skilled at feeding Already Big companies.
(take a page from Deng’s move to grow China with local community banking … hat tip Werner and Ellen Brown)
Bessent is good, but he has blind spots in these areas.
https://goldtadise.com/?p=702295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOpJvROK10&t=8s