(Substack)—In the wake of recent elections and shifting political tides, a disturbing trend has emerged: Marxists and their insane ideologies are gaining traction in American politics. What was once dismissed as fringe extremism is now infiltrating mainstream Democrat circles, with candidates espousing wealth redistribution, government overreach, and class warfare finding surprising support. This isn’t happening by accident. As we examine the landscape in 2025 and look ahead into 2026, it’s clear that a perfect storm of disillusionment, hatred, and naivety is propelling these dangerous ideas forward.
America First patriots must recognize this threat for what it is—a direct assault on the principles of freedom, individualism, and free-market capitalism that built this nation. There was a time not too long ago when most conservatives thought that Marxists could never be elected in major elections, yet here we are with more coming. This isn’t about a future dystopic America. This is about today.
Here are three reasons this is happening. Recognizing why it’s happening can help us stop it from continuing.
Broken Democrats: Indoctrinated into Believing the Left Hasn’t Gone Far Enough
The Biden-Harris years left a trail of devastation that even many Democrats can’t ignore. Skyrocketing inflation, endless foreign wars draining our resources, open borders flooding communities with chaos, and a stifling regulatory environment that crushed small businesses—these policies broke people financially and emotionally. Families watched their savings evaporate, their neighborhoods change overnight, and their faith in government plummet.
But instead of rejecting the failed progressive agenda, a growing faction of Democrats has been indoctrinated to believe the problem wasn’t too much leftism—it was too little. The establishment Democrats, they argue, were compromised by corporate interests and didn’t push hard enough for “true equity.” Enter the Marxists, who promise radical solutions like universal basic income, nationalized healthcare, and seizing corporate assets. Through echo chambers on social media, academia, and activist groups, these disillusioned voters are being funneled toward even more extreme ideologies.
This indoctrination is deliberate. Organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have capitalized on the Biden-era fallout, recruiting from the ranks of the disaffected. They whisper that if only we had “real” Marxism—unfettered by capitalist remnants—utopia would follow. It’s a seductive lie for those hurting, but it ignores history’s lessons from Venezuela to the Soviet Union. As long as Democrats remain broken and bitter, Marxists will exploit that vulnerability to gain electability.
Trump Derangement Syndrome: Driving Democrats to the Furthest Extremes
Few phenomena in modern politics rival the intensity of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). For nearly a decade, the mere mention of Donald Trump has sent some Democrats into a frenzy, viewing him as the embodiment of everything they despise: nationalism, deregulation, and unapologetic American exceptionalism. This irrational hatred doesn’t just fuel opposition; it pushes people to the polar opposite end of the spectrum.
In their quest to distance themselves from anything remotely associated with Trump, these voters are scurrying toward the furthest left-wing ideologies available. Marxism, with its anti-capitalist, anti-individualist rhetoric, becomes the ultimate rebuke to Trump’s “America First” ethos. If Trump champions free enterprise and border security, then nationalizing industries and defunding the police must be the answer—or so the logic goes.
We’ve seen this in action with candidates like those in the “Squad,” who amplify their Marxist leanings as a direct counter to Trump’s influence. Even in local races, TDS-afflicted voters prioritize symbolic resistance over practical governance, electing officials who promise to dismantle the systems Trump sought to strengthen. Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson are just the beginning.
This emotional recoil isn’t about policy; it’s about spite. As long as TDS persists, it will continue to make Marxists not just tolerable, but preferable, to a segment of the electorate desperate to signal their anti-Trump virtue.
Ignorance: The Allure of Impossible Promises to the Uninformed
We can dissect philosophical and psychological underpinnings all day, but the harsh truth is that ignorance is the bedrock of Marxist electability. Voters, particularly younger ones raised in an era of instant gratification and social media soundbites, are easily swayed by promises that sound benevolent but are fundamentally impossible. Free college for all? Eradicate poverty through wealth taxes? A classless society where everyone thrives? These utopian visions appeal to emotion, not reason.
The problem is a profound lack of historical and economic literacy. Schools and universities, dominated by progressive curricula, rarely teach the horrors of Marxist regimes—the famines, purges, and economic collapses that claimed millions of lives. Instead, students are fed sanitized versions of Marxism, emphasizing “equality” while ignoring the inevitable authoritarianism. Add in the influence of TikTok influencers and celebrity endorsements, and you have a generation voting from stupidity and sentiment rather than informed analysis.
This ignorance isn’t accidental; it’s cultivated. Marxists thrive on it, knowing that once voters buy into the fantasy, they’re hooked. But reality bites: Marxist utopias always devolve into dystopias because they defy human nature and basic economics. Yet, as long as ignorance prevails—fueled by failing education systems and algorithmic echo chambers—Marxists will continue to seduce the uninformed into electoral viability.
The systematic and intentional dumbing down of America has been happening for at least six decades. We’re now seeing the fruits of the Neo-Marxists’ efforts.
A Call to Action for America First
The rise of electable Marxists isn’t inevitable, but combating it requires vigilance. We must educate, expose, and engage. Highlight the failures of Marxism wherever they occur. Challenge TDS with facts about Trump’s successes. And most importantly, foster a culture of critical thinking to combat ignorance.
The first tangible step we can take is to stop calling it “socialism.” That’s a word that angers patriots and conservatives but in the minds of today’s youths, it’s a positive. Instead of running from the term, the left has embraced it. But the policies they’re proposing are truly Marxist in nature; they hide behind the “equity” of socialism so they’re not called out for the class warfare and property-destroying tenets of true Marxism.
America First means rejecting these corrosive ideologies before they take root. If we fail, the land of the free could become just another failed experiment in collectivism. Let’s ensure that doesn’t happen—our republic depends on it.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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