Of Democratic Socialists and Right-Wing Demagogues
In the White House, we have a right-wing demagogue, a lying, blundering idiot who tears down and destroys, nourishes hatred and division, tries to overturn elections and deny citizens their rights to vote, and corruptly feathers his own nest and his family’s pockets. Nevertheless, he was elected the nation’s President. Alexander Hamilton warned the nation of such a man in his Federalist Papers supporting the passage of the US Constitution; many other of our nation’s Founders echoed his concerns. https://ashbrook.org/viewpoint/alexander-hamilton-and-the-federalist/ and https://www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2021/04/07/civics-101-keep-demagogues-out-of-democracy/ Since elected, he has started a war, increased tariffs (taxes) on all imported goods, increased the costs of daily necessities, cut health care and food aid to the least fortunate in order to pay for tax cuts to the wealthiest, and killed Americans protesting his policies or simply trying to go to work. Not a single one of our nation’s founders would approve of either the man or his policies.
As Mayor of New York, we have a democratic socialist, Zoran Mandami. He espouses a socialist platform of lower rents, universal childcare, better public transportation, and lower food and energy prices. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/democratic-socialist-mayor-mamdani-wilson He would like higher taxes on the wealthy and big corporations and improved health coverage and education for all. Many of our nation’s founders, revolutionaries in their time and age, and men of honor and integrity in their personal and professional lives would approve of Zoran Mandami.