Albanian immigrants who flee communism warn against Mamdani’s socialist ideas

Former US Senate candidate and immigration lawyer Peter Lumaj fled communist Albania decades ago and found freedom and opportunity in America.

Now, the main victory of New York City mayor of fresh democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, Lumaj warns that the ideas promoted by the far left advances could lead the United States to the same slippery slope.

“I’ve seen the film before, but I don’t like the ending of it…” Connecticut conservatives said.”Fox & Friends First” on wednesday.

“This guy wants to openly promote the values ​​of communism in our country. This is incompatible with the foundation of this country when he wants to command and control the economy. It forces the redistribution of property. These are tested in the Soviet Union.

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Lumaj is working on the final warning: “This is not American, so we should not allow this to be spread in the US.”

In 2021, Mamdani joined the participants Young democratic socialist in America Winter meetings do not compromise on goals such as “grabing the means of production.”

“If you’re currently talking about cancelling student debts, and talking about Medicare for everyone, these are issues with a popular support ground swell across the country,” Mamdani said in a video to the conference audience.

“But there are other issues that we firmly believe in (boycotts, sale, sanctions) or whether it is the ultimate goal of seizing the means of production.

Video surface of Mamdani using slogans rooted in the Communist Revolutionary Language

Lumaj said he will co-host “Fox & Friends First” with “Learning the Mamdani” bringing horrifying memories of Albania to hear him talk about “grabing the means of production.”

“We cannot have socialism without the wild power of the government,” he warned.

“In order for you or someone to implement those policies, you need to use government agencies to do it. You have to use force to do it. You have to use force to do it. They took over Albania and when they confiscated people from their property, they had to use government agencies to do this. What is very dangerous to bring to the US.”

President Donald Trump has it publicly Getting a hit with Mamdani His upset betrays former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, calling the progressive, published in the AOC last week’s Truth Social Post, a “100% communist madman.”

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Since then, Trump has doubled his rhetoric.

When asked by NBC’s Kristen Welker if he was a communist, Mamdani replied succinctly on Sunday, “No, I’m not.”

“I had already had to get used to the fact that the President wanted to talk about how he looked, how I sound, where he came from, and ultimately who I was.

Alec Schemmel of Fox News contributed to this report.