Marxism and Islam united?

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Friend,   "A republic, if you can keep it."   Benjamin Franklin's answer to a woman outside Independence Hall has echoed for nearly two and a half centuries. It echoes differently now.   As the dust settles on Democratic primaries across the country, one race stands apart: The open Senate seat in Michigan.   Democrats have nominated Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed by roughly 15,000 votes over Haley Stevens. El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, drew close to 94% of Michigan's Arab-American vote. Non-Arab voters split roughly evenly. Stevens held the traditional base in black-majority areas.   The arithmetic is worth sitting with, because this is more than the story about one candidate in one state, it is a story about what happens when ethnic, tribal, and religious allegiance — imported intact — becomes the organizing logic of a political coalition.   Immigration and Islam are now major paths to power, and quick ones. But we are not supposed to notice this, much less say it. This is about so much more than a single Senate seat.   There is a broader alliance that demands honest examination. Scholars and analysts call it “the red-green alliance” — a working coalition between the radical secular left and Islamist political movements.   The alignment between a certain strain of socialism and political Islamism does not fit any coherent ideological map. These are not natural partners. But such an alliance exists, bound by a shared opponent: the liberal democratic order rooted in the Judeo-Christian inheritance of the West. The enemy of my enemy, for the moment, is enough.   The question this raises is not merely tactical but civilizational.   What is the common good when there is a minimal shared commitment to reason, ordered liberty, and the God-given dignity of the person that makes genuine pluralism possible at all? What holds a republic together when the adhesive of shared principle has been replaced by the arithmetic of competing blocs?   We are beginning to find out.   For a more in-depth discussion of this issue, read my latest article: The Unholy Alliance You Weren't Supposed to Notice.   Go forward bravely, Kelsey Reinhardt President & CEO CatholicVote P.S. CatholicVote exists for precisely this moment. We are uniquely positioned in this cultural inflection point — to make the case that the West's inheritance is worth defending. We have known this fight before, in different forms. The Church has always known it. Join the fight today. Paid for by CatholicVote Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) organization, PO Box 3310, Carmel, IN 46082 (317) 669-6127 Unsubscribe Manage preferences