The House of Representatives on Friday voted on House Concurrent Resolution 58, officially denouncing socialism — the so-called “soft-communism” creeping into our cities and threatening the very fiber of American life. Nearly 200 Republicans and 86 Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, as 98 Democrats stubbornly clung to the idea that socialism has a place in the land of the free.
Meanwhile, New York’s socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, was visiting the White House.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) delivered a speech that was part history lesson, part warning siren. “Let me educate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle,” she stated. “Socialism is communism-lite. Socialism is the first step to communism. Socialism is the antithesis of the American Dream. It steals from those who work, rewards no one but the state, and is the exact thing millions of immigrants fled when seeking the American Dream. Venezuela, Cuba, and other socialist experiments are cited as cautionary tales of empty shelves, starvation, and economic ruin — a living lesson in what happens when governments seize control of production.”
“Sadly, New York City chose to learn the hard way what socialism is,” she declared. “And we, those of us who did not vote for this guy, are going to pay the price. But it’s up to all of us to fight back, to educate our youth, and to contain this ugly monster so it does not spread and destroy our country.”
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Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) wasn’t shy either. He stated, “History is clear. Socialism kills people — at least the deaths of tens of millions, crushes religious liberty, and destroys free markets. Our founders built this nation on a revolutionary idea that individual liberty and not government control is the source of human achievement. They understood that when the government owns the economy, they soon seek to own the people, socialism is a death machine, crushing liberty, crushing faith, crushing the free market — essentially, everything our Founders warned us about.”
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, predictably, waved her hands and shouted, “It’s not that simple,” accusing Republicans of conflating socialism with authoritarianism. Her solution? Point at Trump’s investments like a red herring while insisting socialism isn’t the real problem.
Florida Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar fired back:
If there is someone who has seen the horrors of socialism up close within the Democratic Party, it is in the House, and it’s the honorable Congresswoman Maxine Waters. I would love for you to support this resolution specifically because Madam Waters, for decades, traveled to Cuba dozens of times to visit Fidel Castro personally, whom you consider your friend. Congresswoman Waters was in Havana, and she saw the destruction of biblical proportions that Castro caused on that island. At the time in 1960, it had the highest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere.
At that time, Madam Waters knew that thousands and thousands of Cubans were escaping on rafts, exposing their lives and their children to be eaten by sharks. She knew that Cubans were being beaten on the streets of Havana, discriminated against by Fidel Castro, Mr. Speaker. And for that reason, I am bringing up all these facts because Madam Waters knew that the Cuban jails were full of political prisoners, and the Cubans did not have the same privileges that we are having right now. At that time, Madam Waters never raised her voice to denounce the voice of socialism.
The resolution passed, and the message was clear: socialism is incompatible with the principles that built this nation. Freedom, prosperity, and opportunity aren’t negotiable; they are what separate America from the economic graveyards of failed socialist states.
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