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In response to three Democratic Socialist victories in Tuesday's New York primaries, with the backing of the mayor, Zoran Mondani, President Trump had some strong words for the dangers of communism. Joining us now to discuss is Alex Newman. He's an award-winning journalist and author. Thanks for joining us this evening, Alex. I'd like to play a clip from President Trump's speech today and get your reaction. Communism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it's very easy. I'd be, I'll be honest, I think I'd be the greatest communist in history. I give free rent. Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, you don't have to pay any rent. From now on, anybody wants a house, don't worry about it. Just pick the house you want. Everybody gets free food. Everything is free from this point forward. Everyone's going to vote for me. The problem is, after two or three years, the country is a disaster area. It's a lighthearted moment in response to something that is somewhat dangerous. So I'd love to get your reaction to the president's putting that into context. Yeah, I mean, despite the humor, these are some of the most serious and forceful remarks we've had about communism from the president. And he's absolutely right. I mean, the communist party selling material has always basically been, we're going to give you free stuff. You can take stuff from your neighbor. And so I think what Trump is doing here is he's trying to sound the alarm about a very real issue, which is the infiltration of communism within the Democratic Party. It's nice that he's trying to do it with a little bit of humor. But I think the seriousness of what he's saying needs to be taken seriously by the American people and certainly by rank and file Democrats, who a lot of them don't even recognize their party anymore. Now, Alex, according to a Gallup poll, about 40 percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism. I want to explore with you why that is. And and if you could remind our audience, what is the relationship between the socialism that people might think of from the Nordics and communism? Well, what they have in Scandinavia, and I used to live in Scandinavia, is really much closer to free markets than it is to communism. I think it's very inaccurate to call the Scandinavian welfare model socialism. In some ways, the Scandinavian countries actually have more freedom in terms of the economy than the United States does. And that's even on the Index of Economic Freedom from the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. So the idea that Scandinavia is practicing socialism is not true. They did move in that direction and it was such a disaster. They very quickly reversed course by the time the 1990s started coming around. And those reforms have been very, very helpful for them. In fact, they became prosperous as a result of markets and free market economics. Socialism is really just an interim step on the road to alleged utopia that communism is supposed to bring. It is really the government ownership, what they call the collective ownership of the means of production. And so socialism is really just a step toward communism. And when you talk about democratic socialists of America, they are socialists. Yes, they may like to use democracy. They may like to use the electoral process to bring that about. But it's ultimately all leading to the same destination. And I think the reason we have more and more Americans moving in that direction, and this is especially true among young people, is because this is what they're learning in the school system. This is what's being pumped out through the entertainment system. And they don't even hide it. The democratic socialists a few years ago talked about how democratic socialists should become teachers so they can indoctrinate the next generation. If you look at the people who built this system, I've covered this very extensively. These are people who really did share the collectivist worldview, the idea that socialism was superior to freedom. So very, very dangerous. And this is a threat that, as the president pointed out, we need to be taken very seriously. And earlier this morning on Truth Social, the president said, the communists are finally making their move. I've been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. And then he goes on to say, the game is on. Enjoy watching, President Donald J. Trump. Well, it sounds like the president has a plan. What do you expect from him? Well, the president has been aware of this for a long time. If you go back to 2017, when he first took office, Rich Higgins on the National Security Council wrote an extraordinary memo where he talked about an alliance between communists, Islamists, globalists, jihadists, working to destroy the United States of America, not just as a nation, but even as an ideal. And so this has been on Trump's radar for a long time. Of course, he's following what's going on in Cuba. He's seen what's going on in Venezuela. And he recognizes that this is actually a national security threat to the United States. When you talk about subversion, when you talk about the sleeper cells that we have across this country. And so I expect that the president and his team have been taking this threat very seriously, where crimes have been committed. And certainly there have been many crimes committed to get us this far. I hope we'll see prosecutions from the Department of Justice. But this is a major threat, and it's not going to be fixed, I don't think, with any simple policies. This is a long-term issue. The other side has been playing the long game, and I expect that the president and his administration understand that.