A former advisor to the left’s last two leaders joined the chorus demanding Democrats start “standing up” or risk losing their party to radicals with conflicting “values.”
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Recent elections have arguably made New York’s ‘Islamunist’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani the new face of the Democratic Party that is openly embracing the combined tenets of Islamism and communism. While President Donald Trump took a swing at the “godless Communists” the left is elevating, Meghan Hays, former advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, joined others on her side, likewise decrying inaction from Democratic leaders to quell a party takeover.
“These people are not Democrats. They don’t believe in Democratic values and they should not be allowed to be in primaries in Democratic places,” she told Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday’s edition of “The Story.”
Reiterating her point in the context of a clip of one such candidate, Hamas-sympathizing activist Aber Kawas, who won the nomination for New York state Senate District 12 on Tuesday, Hays expressed, “Most of the country does not view 9/11 that way, or even a lot of these things people in New York were saying.”
Prior to earning the backing of Mamdani, Kawas had gone on the record saying in 2017, “the system of capitalism and racism, and white supremacy, etc., have all — and Islamophobia — have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people, and so this is, like, a long trajectory. And we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9/11.”
Mamdani backs New York City candidate who faulted America for 9/11 https://t.co/DlhcPFZxcn
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) November 20, 2025
Reminiscent of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) who’d described the attack on America that took the lives of 2,977 and counting as “some people did something,” Kawas also said, “The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did, and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery … is something that I kinda find reprehensible.”
“What is really frustrating to me as a Democrat — and I know I’m very moderate — but why aren’t people in the party standing up to these folks?” asked Hays. “Why aren’t more people endorsing? Why aren’t people saying, in these purple districts that are super important to take back the majority of the House and even have a chance in the Senate, ‘We won’t stand for this?’ And you’re not seeing a lot of it. I think everyone’s just like, ‘Oh, we’ll just stand back and let it happen.’ And that is, I think, the biggest problem with our leadership that we have. Folks need to stand up or they will take over. And again, not Democrats.”
The former presidential advisor’s position is especially telling in light of the reaction of radicals in New York who were spotted chanting “You’re next” when encountering an image of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after Tuesday’s socialist success, a point the politician dodged when confronted.
Meanwhile, as self-styled moderates attempted to distance themselves from the rest of the Democratic Party with a “Promise to America” initiative favoring principles Americans used to agree on, longtime Democrat strategist James Carville slammed the notion of a big tent on the left, distancing himself from the socialists, saying, “there’s just some sh*t that I can’t be in the same tent with.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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