The results in New York affirm that socialists are on the rise and likely will field a presidential candidate in 2028.
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Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
25 June 2026
The housing bill is an example of the president delivering on his promises, and Republicans opened the day by highlighting the democratic socialists who upset establishment Democrats in primaries last night.
What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
—
David Williamson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.
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