An alien ideology is entering American politics, and its threat cannot be dismissed. While our Constitution guarantees us a republican form of government, the tools of democracy can be exploited to render that asunder.

Two major cities—New York and Minneapolis—now have candidates for Mayor running as avowed socialists under the Democratic party. They have every likelihood of success. That they call themselves Democratic Socialists is of no comfort. The Venezuelan, Cuban, and China constitutions also speak of their governments as democratic socialist.

These candidates are, indeed, Marxists, and the attempted effort to separate Marxism from socialism is folly—Marx and Engels thanked designated socialist newspapers for spreading their Manifesto and the famous democratic socialist Michael Harrington has written: “Karl Marx was a democratic socialist in the most profound sense of the phrase.”

That no major Democrats are denouncing these candidacies and this ideology should be of major concern. For those shrugging this off as no big deal, just remember: you may not care about Marxism, but it cares about you.

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About thirteen hundred workers were recently laid off from the State Department. X was full of emotional videos, recording diplomats gathered in the lobby to applaud, hug, and weep with their departing colleagues.

Americans might wonder where similar coverage was for private sector workers when Joe Biden shut down construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Or why no tears were shed for small businesses destroyed by covid lockdowns

The State Department’s hysteria is even more ridiculous in context. According to State Department documents, the department grew from 57,000 employees in 2007 to 80,000 in 2024. After growing by twenty-three thousand, only a meager one thousand, three hundred jobs were cut.

It’s just another example of the grotesque entitlement of the government class.

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He was the towering preacher of his age. John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr., known to so many as “Pastor John,” has died, after more than a half-century of faithful preaching. John McArthur was the son and grandson of preachers. He became pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California just as the state was exploding.

John was a master expositor of Scripture, and his straightforward preaching built his church, then built a larger preaching ministry, then a vast reach by radio, and then a movement to encourage and train preachers from all over the world. He was president of The Master’s University and The Master’s Seminary and the founder of Grace to You—which now makes tens of thousands of hours of John’s preaching available 24/7. He completed preaching the entire New Testament, verse-by-verse, in 2011—and kept preaching.

He was a man of courage and Christian character. He was my dear friend.

I thank God for the life and legacy of John MacArthur.

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