The American Left hasn't just flirt with the fringes; it eloped. From Zohran Mamdani's screeching triumph in New York City – a self-avowed democratic socialist quoting Nehru, the architect of India's soul-crushing statism – to Virginia's nod to Jay Jones, the texting fantasist of filicide and fratricide, the results paint a portrait of moral vertigo. California? Gavin Newsom torches $200 million on a gerrymandered special to kneecap GOP voices. New Jersey? Mikie Sherrill, Naval Academy cheater turned insider-trading millionaire, sails through. It's not slippage; it's a swan dive into the abyss. And as Patricia McCarthy thunders in her postmortem, this isn't anomaly – it's apotheosis. The Left, once the party of labour and liberty, as in Australia, now openly courts what it once condemned: evil, unadorned and unapologetic. Yet, peel back the partisan veneer, and it's no shock. This is communism's spectral sequel – a death toll of 100 million souls distilled into a modern elixir of chaos and culpability.
Let's start stateside, where the ballot box became a Ouija board summoning spectres. Mamdani's victory speech wasn't olive-branch diplomacy; it was a Molotov cocktail of "us vs. them," laced with threats and triumphalism. Foreign-born voters, per X's viral clips of jubilant crowds, tipped the scales – a microcosm of the migrant waves reshaping the West. Do his backers grasp the import? NYC, that teeming Babel of ambition, now elects a man pledging to "destroy [its] soul in the name of progress," echoing Nehru's Nehru-jacketed nightmare. The Democrat machine, McCarthy laments, has jettisoned founding virtues – life, liberty, the pursuit of property – for a Cloward-Piven cocktail: overload the system till it snaps.
But zoom out, and America's not alone in this danse macabre. The Western Left's flirtation with the forbidden is a transatlantic tango, from Europe's migrant embrace to Australia's ABC echo chambers. Recall Cologne's 2015 horrors: Mass assaults by migrant revellers, met not with outrage but with Mayor Reker's "arm's length" advisory – victim-blaming as virtue. Or the UK's grooming gangs, shielded by multicultural mantras until Rotherham's rot forced a reckoning. Sweden's no-go zones? Chalked up to "hopelessness," per ministers, even as native teens drown in bullying. France's banlieue bonfires? "Systemic racism," cry the salons. It's ethno-masochism on steroids: Import the unrest, excuse the unruliness, and when the bill bleeds in, blame the billfold. McCarthy nails the thread: This is the Clinton-Obama-Biden continuum – lechery laundered as leadership, hoaxes as heroism, lawfare as liturgy. Comey's email absolution? A Deep State sacrament. Trump's indictments? Inquisition 2.0, fabricating felonies to fell a foe.
And the glee? Ghastly. Charlie Kirk's assassination. It's the Floyd fever unbroken: Arson as activism, looting as liberation. Two generations of campus catechism – critical theory over critical thinking – have birthed a brood allergic to agency, hooked on grievance. Millennials and Zoomers don't debate; they declaim. Indoctrination mills churn out parrots primed for the pitchfork, not the plow.
Yet, consistency is the hobgoblin here – and history's the haunt. This embrace of evil isn't innovation; it's inheritance. Communism, that 20th-century reaper, claimed 100 million lives: Stalin's purges (20M), Mao's famines (45M), Pol Pot's charnel fields (2M), and the gulag archipelago's endless echoes. Not "mistakes," mind you – engineered exterminations, from Holodomor harvests to Cultural Revolution cannibalism. The Black Book of Communism tallies the toll, yet the Left's amnesia is selective: Trotsky's ice axe? "Excesses of youth." Gulags? "Well-intentioned errors." Fast-forward: Today's socialists dust off the playbook – Mamdani's Nehru nod a nod to Nehruvian nationalization that beggared India, now repackaged for the Big Apple. Alinsky's agitprop? Mao's manual in mufti. The death toll? Not deterrent, but data point – proof of purity, the "price of progress."
Why the affinity? At root, it's a theology of inversion: Evil as equity's eggbeater. Communism's core – class war as crusade – absolves atrocity if it levels the ledger. Starve the kulaks? Justice. Cull the intellectuals? Equilibrium. Today's variant? Communists like Mamdani aren't outliers; they're icons. Open borders? "Reparations" for empire. Trans incursions into Title IX? "Inclusivity" über alles. Political violence? "Punching up." It's the same calculus: Ends justify the entrails. McCarthy's right: The Rubicon's crossed, decency drowned. Obama-Biden's Islamophile laxity (Dearborn's muezzins multiplying) sets the stage; Trump's tariff walls are the frantic fix.
The saddest irony? This "dark side" devours its devotees. Europe's migrant multitudes birthed Brexit backlash and AfD surges; America's blue strongholds hollow out as red states boom.
Trump's mandate? Herculean, as McCarthy mourns – salvaging a republic from its own renegades. But salvation starts with sight: Call evil by name, not "nuance." The Left's not lost; it's liberated – from scruple, from scripture, from sanity. Communism's corpse count cautions: Ideologies that idolise upheaval end in unmarked graves. Will the West heed the heap? Or join the funeral pyre?