Scalise warns 'Bolshevik revolution' taking over Dem Party after socialist primary wins
The No. 2 leader in the House of Representatives is hammering Democrats after a slate of far-left primary victories ahead of the November midterms, warning a "civil war" is in...
By Fox News · Fox News
The No. 2 leader in the House of Representatives is hammering Democrats after a slate of far-left primary victories ahead of the November midterms, warning a "civil war" is in store for their party. "There's like this Bolshevik revolution that has taken over the Democrat Party. It's scary to see because many of them are espousing communist viewpoints — very, very radical viewpoints — and they're winning. They're beating liberals," Scalise told Fox News Digital in an interview. Republicans are seizing on wins by candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as proof that Democrats as a whole are shifting further left than where most American voters are. FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS "This is surely not your father's Democrat Party," Scalise said. "There's never been a sharper contrast between Republicans who believe in freedom and individual opportunity and Democrats who are moving toward socialism." It comes after several DSA-linked candidates toppled incumbent progressive Democrats in recent weeks. Reps. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., both lost primaries to candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, himself a DSA member. Goldman's challenger Brad Lander, however, left the DSA after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel. MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST WINS IN NEW YORK EXPOSE GROWING RIFT BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT, INSURGENT LEFT Another DSA-backed candidate in Denver toppled longtime Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. Those victories in safe blue seats mean all three will have a glide path to the House of Representatives come November. "The liberals in the Democrat Party are being beaten in primaries by socialists and that's foreboding for kind of this civil war that's going on in the Democrat Party," Scalise said. "I think if you go through most of middle America, and I go there a lot, all of those districts, they don't want socialism — and yet that's what's on the ball…