Megan Romer speaks on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream in a video posted July 26, 2026.(Screenshot via Fox News/YouTube)

We should, in fact, be ‘scared’ by Megan Romer and her ilk.

I understand that it is considered déclassé to participate in what the self-consciously serious among us have termed the new “Red Scare.” Well, okay then: déclassé it is. There is virtue in calling things by their names, and the appropriate name for the Democratic Socialists of America is “red.” They are communists. They are Jacobins. They are wreckers and despoilers and iconoclasts, who, if left unchecked, would wipe the United States from the face of this earth. To be “scared” by such figures is not only rational, it is imperative.

Asked on television by Fox News host Shannon Bream to give

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