Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier attends the Get Out the Vote rally in New York City, June 18, 2026.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Her vicious declarations are not something to be dismissed as mere foibles. They are the product of a diseased mind and must be repudiated.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is now the Democratic Party’s candidate for New York’s 13th congressional district, has some rather ambitious goals. She wishes to prevent all deportations of illegal immigrants, irrespective of the severity of the crimes they have committed; she hopes to abolish prisons entirely, including for convicted murderers; and — oh yes, this one jumped out at me — she is “fighting for the eradication of Western Civilization.” “Our intifada,” she said two years ago, while at Columbia (where else?), “is an Internationalist one.”

I see. Question: Do I get a vote on that?

I ask because, all told, that seems ...

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