From one angle, it’s a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day.
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it → ’ → day
From another, it involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism vs. capitalism, intrusive vs. limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions vs. their preservation and renewal.
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Sowell → involve → preservation
In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism.
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socialism → sympathize → capitalism
The new Islamist-allied socialist Democratic Party is confident, largely because the party holding the White House rarely gains House seats in the midterms.
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party → ally → midterms
Pundits point to President Donald Trump’s under-40% approval rating, the persistently high price of gas and public uncertainty over the Iran war.
But the choice goes much further: Voters face a “deep” midterm election that will help determine the nation’s very existence.
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that → point → existence
The new Democratic agenda is not about lowering gas prices.
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agenda → lower → prices
Americans are being asked to hand Congress to what has become the most radical major party in US history, as socialists and neo-communists believe they can finally win statewide races.
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they → ask → races
That would mean endless lawfare: If Democrats win the House, they’ll spend the next two years impeaching, investigating and hounding Trump, his administration and his family, paralyzing the remainder of his presidency.
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they → mean → presidency
It would mean an end to the effort to denuclearize Iran, even though the US has nearly destroyed the regime’s theocratic apparatus along with much of the country’s nuclear, military, industrial and economic infrastructure.
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US → mean → infrastructure
The Democrats would simply withdraw, and accept Tehran’s word that it will no longer threaten the Gulf states or Israel and cease its decades-long support for terrorist proxies.
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it → withdraw → proxies
On energy, the left has vowed to end the production of natural gas, diesel and gasoline as quickly as possible.
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left → vow → gas
Voters need only look at the once robust British and German economies, now struggling, to see where that would lead.
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that → look → economies
There, gasoline is currently around $9 a gallon — a great thing for Democratic Socialists who see high fuel prices as the best way to cool the planet and remain in power.
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who → see → power
On immigration, the left wants to dismantle border enforcement and return to the Biden-era peak of 10,000-plus illegal entries per day.
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left → want → day
Voters may be disturbed by ICE detentions, but they should remember a high-profile ICE presence was only necessary because Biden effectively eliminated the border.
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Biden → disturb → border
The Democrats will never allow immigration to become entirely legal, meritocratic, diverse and manageable — because doing so would cut off their supply of future constituents.
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doing → allow → constituents
The DEI-driven idea that race, outward appearance, gender and sexual preference are essential rather than incidental to one’s identity is a central doctrine of the contemporary left.
Should the Democrats regain power, expect de facto nullification of the bans against racial tribalism found in federal law and Supreme Court rulings.
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Democrats → drive → law
After Oct. 7, the Democratic Party embraced the Islamist/socialist view that sees radical Islam as not so radical after all, but a legitimate and indeed preferable alternative to democratic Israel — and increasingly to Western values and laws.
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that → embrace → values
We see its dividends now in a burning Paris: Decades ago, the same political partnership destroyed the Shah’s regime and ushered in nearly 50 years of theocratic tyranny in Iran.
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partnership → see → Iran
Why would we vote into office what European voters are now desperately trying to eject?
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voters → vote → what
We already know what will happen if the new Democrats take power.
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Democrats → know → power
After all, they’re only promising to do to America what socialists have already done to now-floundering Europe, Canada and California.
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socialists → promise → Europe
Before the election, voters should ask themselves why more than two million Americans each year are fleeing the blue-state socialist model.
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Americans → ask → model
They know the answer: On taxes, regulations, cost of living, housing affordability, crime and more, red and purple states consistently outperform blue states.
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states → know → states
Americans already vote with their feet — and should remember those differences when they cast their ballots.
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they → vote → ballots
They should also consider why the current crop of Islamist-adjacent socialists always need to cleanse their pasts.
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crop → consider → pasts
Is there a Republican counterpart to James Talarico, who scrambles to retract remarks describing capitalism as an “oppressive system” that needs to be “dismantled,” or suggesting that “white skin” confers immunity to the “virus of racism”?
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skin → scramble → racism
Does any GOP candidate remotely resemble Darializa Avila Chevalier, who called the United States “a f–king disgrace”?
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who → resemble → States
Could anyone imagine Republican candidates apologizing for terrorism in the manner of Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, who responded to a cowardly Islamist attack on a synagogue with “Hurt people do hurt people”?
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That’s why voters must treat this midterm election as the deep choice that it is.
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it → ’ → choice
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