Congress just sent a loud, unmistakable message to the radical left: socialism will not slide into the American mainstream without a fight. The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning socialism, and the timing — delivered just hours before New York City’s mayor-elect flew to Washington to meet with President Trump — was no accident.
This was not some symbolic partisan exercise; the vote was decisive, passing 285 to 98 with 86 Democrats crossing the aisle to join Republicans in rebuking socialist policies. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, cataloged the real-world horrors of regimes that embraced collectivist rule and rejected the American experiment of liberty and free enterprise.
Zohran Mamdani, the self-described democratic socialist who will soon take charge of America’s largest city, arrived in Washington for a face-to-face with President Trump as this political theater played out. The meeting — scheduled at the White House — is being framed by Mamdani as an effort to address affordability and public safety, but it also puts a national spotlight on how far the left’s agenda has shifted.
Let’s be blunt: many Democrats spent years flirting with socialism as a trendy idea, and now they’re scrambling to distance themselves when voters and opponents point to real consequences. The split in the Democratic caucus proves what conservatives have warned for years — socialism looks good in campaign slogans but ugly in practice, and even some Democrats know the political liability when it’s spelled out in plain terms.
President Trump has never been shy about calling out Mamdani’s extremism, and he has previously threatened to reconsider federal funding for New York because of the mayor-elect’s promises. That tough posture is exactly what conservatives should applaud: standing up for taxpayers and demanding accountability when radical ideas threaten the safety and prosperity of our cities.
Mamdani says he wants to talk about affordability and public safety, and if conservatives are serious about winning people back in big cities, we should be ready to put forward practical, pro-growth answers. Democrats offering hollow denunciations of socialism while electing socialist officials should not be trusted to solve the problems those policies create; it’s time for common-sense solutions rooted in free enterprise, law and order, and individual responsibility.
The takeaway for hardworking Americans is clear: the fight over the soul of our nation is not theory but consequence, and conservatives must keep pressing the case for liberty and prosperity. Stand with leaders who defend the Constitution, champion personal freedom, and refuse to let failed ideologies from the past be repackaged as progress.
