The Democrats’ nomination of Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor draws attention to the ideological unity of Marxist economics, post-Marxist hatred of Israel, and antipatriotic rejection of America.

Mamdani, the likely winner this November, wants to “globalize the intifada” and “seize the means of production,” which, as campaign guru Karl Rove notes, will allow Republicans to paint Democrats in ugly colors in midterm elections.

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The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, in a brilliant speech accepting the American Enterprise Institute’s 2017 Irving Kristol Award, talked centrally about the opening line of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” He pointed out that these truths are self-evident only to Jews and Christians, who have internalized the Hebrew Bible. They’d be “unintelligible to Plato, to Aristotle, or to every hierarchical society the world has ever known.”

Their obvious truth for Jews and Americans points to a unique sympathy between the ideas that underpin America and those that form Jewish society and bind its people together in their traditional homeland, Israel.

There is a fundamental understanding among Zionist Jews and Americans who adhere to values that are traditional to this country. Both believe the same things about what it means to be a society and a people connected to a place.

This makes it vital always to recall that America is a Judeo-Christian nation. That doesn’t mean you must be a Jew or Christian to be here, but it does mean acceptance of our Judeo-Christian values is a prerequisite for being fully American. Without those values, America as a nation built on a set of connected and irreducible ideas ceases to exist.

Which is what the Left wants.

It is no coincidence that the people who reject Israel are those who also reject America. They are not only the Jew-hating, “death-to-America” forces of Islamism, but also the base of the American Left, enamored of leaders such as Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

A Gallup poll in March found that while there is 75% support for Israel among Republicans, the traditional-values people of this country, only 21% of Democrats do so. And naturally, it is Democratic voters who also tend to reject the very idea of America, repudiate its grand construction on “stolen land,” dismiss its advocacy of freedom as hypocrisy, and insist that it is systemically evil right down to its DNA.

It should therefore be no surprise, however deeply troubling it is, to see other polling that finds 92% of Republicans are proud or very proud to be American, much the same as the 90% in 2001, but only 36% of Democrats think that way, down from 87%.

Patriotism has collapsed among Democrats.

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Some on the Right, though far fewer, also oppose Israel and are tainted with racial prejudice, and these people also increasingly and not coincidentally tend to express bitterness toward America, too. But much of the greatest force against freedom, Israel, and America is on the Left. It boasts of its tolerance, but it hates them. It hates you. It hates us.

Democrats want to believe their problem is messaging. But it isn’t. It’s what they believe, what they reject, and who they are.