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My friends, I want to tell you about an exchange that happened on Fox News this weekend — because it's incredibly revealing about the state of politics today.
Shannon Bream sat down with Megan Romer, co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and did something remarkably simple: she just asked. Abolish the Senate? "True." Abolish the presidency and the Supreme Court as we know them? "Yep." Abolish ICE? "Absolutely." Open borders, with amnesty for anyone here illegally? "As a long-term plan, yep." Defund the Pentagon? "Absolutely." Abolish prisons, in large part? "Yeah, as part of a long-term program." Government or public ownership of most large corporations? "Absolutely."
I want to give her credit for something most people in politics won't do: she answered honestly. No hedging, no spin. That's rare, and I respect it even their platform would be an absolute catastrophe for this country.
Here's what should stop you cold, though: this isn't a fringe view anymore. According to Gallup, Americans' confidence in capitalism just hit a new low — and favorable views of socialism among Democrats have been climbing for years. That's not one loud activist. That's a real and growing share of one of our two major parties, moving in one direction, fast.
I don't think most of the people in that number have thought through what they're actually endorsing. I don't think they know that socialism and communism are kissing cousins, or that variations of this ideology killed an estimated 100 million people in the 20th century alone. I think most of them have heard "free college" and "free healthcare" and never asked the next question: paid for by whom? And what’s the cost?
Winston Churchill said it about as well as it's ever been said: socialism is "the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy," whose "inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." That's not a talking point — that's an honest description of what happens when you tell people someone else's success belongs to them too.
Our Founders built something the world had never tried: a government that answers to the people, not the other way around. That idea is worth defending — not with contempt for the people drifting toward socialism, most of whom are decent people who've simply never been taught the alternative, but with patience and the truth, told over and over, until it's the story that sticks.
Keep fighting the fight, my friends. This nation is absolutely worth saving.
Conservative, not bitter.
Todd
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Stack of Stuff
The full exchange: the DSA co-chair tells Shannon Bream "true" and "absolutely" to abolishing the Senate, ICE, and the presidency as we know it. Fox News
Straight from the source: Gallup's own numbers show Americans' confidence in capitalism at a new low. Gallup
A closer breakdown of just how far Romer went in that interview — including seizing corporations. NewsBusters
WNBA's Sophie Cunningham isn't backing down on trans athletes in women's sports, despite the backlash. Washington Times
The White House Correspondents' Dinner jab at Kaitlan Collins that had CNN issuing a statement — and Dylan Mulvaney firing back. Fox News
Culture Watch: Government
My friends, government is force. Not metaphorically — literally. Every law, every regulation, every tax is backed by the threat of real consequences if you don't comply. That's not inherently evil — a government operating with the consent of the governed, used to protect people from real harm, is legitimate. But the moment government starts dictating what you do with your own money, your own property, your own choices, that's a different kind of force. It's exactly the kind our Founders built an entire system to guard against.
That's what makes this week's Fox News interview so significant. When a DSA co-chair says, on the record, that she wants to abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court, and hand ownership of most large corporations to "the people," she's not describing a policy tweak. She's describing a full reversal of the American experiment — a government that answers to no one, deciding for everyone.
Our Founders flipped the historical default: citizens tell government what it can do, not the other way around. That idea is fragile. It has to be taught, defended, and re-explained every generation, or a majority that's forgotten it will vote it away, one tiny step at a time.
That's the real battlefront here — not one interview, but whether the next generation understands what they're actually be giving up.
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