Rob Finnerty nailed it on Thursday when he warned Americans that we are watching a hostile and radical takeover of the Democratic Party unfold before our eyes. The once-moderate coalition that courted working families has been shoved aside by a new ruling class of activists, technocrats, and cultural commissars who demand obedience to an ever-shifting set of extreme priorities. Conservative Americans should not be surprised — this takeover has been telegraphed loudly on the networks that still tell the truth about what’s happening inside the left.
Look at the players at the center of this transformation and you see the proof: high-profile progressive figures now wield outsize influence inside the party and even bankroll party machinery when it suits their social agenda. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies have moved from insurgent outliers to institutional donors and strategists, reshaping priorities and pushing the mainstream further left rather than pulling radicals toward the center. What used to be fringe demands — radical economic experiments, radical cultural redefinitions, and radical reordering of public safety — are now being normalized from within the party’s halls.
This takeover has consequences that hit working Americans in the wallet and in their communities. While the party’s leadership talks feel-good rhetoric, border chaos and record migration have strained schools, hospitals, and local budgets, creating real public safety and economic problems that are too often dismissed as political talking points. The reality of mass encounters and the strains on enforcement have been documented and debated across the country, yet Democratic elites largely refuse to own the fallout of their open-border impulses.
Abroad, the new progressive orthodoxy pushes for weakened deterrence, muddled alliances, and policy experiments that substitute virtue signaling for strategy. Think tanks and policy organs aligned with the progressive movement openly advocate for a reimagined foreign policy that treats American strength as a problem rather than the indispensable guarantor of global order. This is not theoretical nitpicking — it is a fundamental shift that puts pragmatic national interests at risk in favor of ideological purity.
Patriots who love this country have to call this movement what it is: a power grab dressed up as moral awakening. Republicans and conservatives must stop reflexively ceding the narrative of decency and security, and start offering voters a clear choice: common-sense patriotism that defends borders, families, and free speech, versus a radical experiment that is already failing everyday Americans. The evidence of failure is not just talk — congressional and public records show growing frustration and alarm, and it’s time conservatives translate that anger into grassroots momentum and principled policy wins.
