by Joseph Ford Cotto, American Thinker:
The hypocrisy is laughable, but the danger is real.
The left’s war on America’s white middle class is no longer whispered about in academic lounges or fantasized about by anonymous social media users. It is now shouted by the very people rising inside the Democrat party.
Their internet megaphone, Hasan Piker, is leading them on.
Anti-woke liberal Bill Maher played clips of Cea Weaver, the tenant-protection director for socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. She called for the deliberate impoverishment of the white middle class. She also backed the seizure of private property. Her rationale: home-ownership is supposedly a tool of white supremacy.
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Piker’s reaction was pure delight.
“Beast mode. I love her so much … She’s awesome,” he declared, while praising the circle around Mamdani as even cooler than the mayor himself.
That is not satire. That is the authentic voice of the movement now shaping Democratic politics.
Piker, unfortunately, is not some fringe crank.
He is the live-streaming star leftist candidates court because he delivers the young, disaffected male voters the blue party has struggled to hold. High-profile Democrats appear on his show. He has stumped for candidates from state to state, helping pull disillusioned voters back into the fold after they drifted away from the blue establishment.
Piker is a self-described socialist who grew up between New Jersey and Turkey. The son of a high-ranking executive at one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates, he has amassed an estimated $8 million fortune. He owns a multi-million-dollar West Hollywood house, earning a six-figure monthly streaming income. Meanwhile, he lectures Americans about the evils of capitalism and the rich.
The hypocrisy is laughable, but the danger is real.
This is the same Piker who once said America “deserved 9/11.” He mocked a wounded American veteran by praising the Islamist terrorists who maimed him. Piker waved a Chinese flag while claiming zero patriotism for the United States. He has repeatedly excused political violence.
In 2026, he threw that same energy behind Mamdani and a slate of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates. He appeared at rallies, live-streamed on election day, and celebrated primary victories that knocked off establishment Democrats in various states. He headlined a DSA rally in Brooklyn, declaring New York “the tip of the spear in terms of revolutionary politics” that could change the national trajectory.
The DSA membership has moved far past demands for Scandinavian-style social democracy.
A Marxist-Leninist faction called Red Star now holds near half the seats on DSA’s highest leadership body. The foundational ban on communist members is gone. Rather than speak weasel words from the shadows, DSA operatives openly celebrate their hard-leftward surge.
DSA communists’ third-worldist line is explicit: the United States and the West are the permanent global oppressor whose power must be dismantled. There is “no such thing as a third camp.” Solidarity with any force opposing American power is deemed the highest priority. Western civilization itself is the purported enemy to be dismantled.
Weaver is the practical face of that cancer, smiling inside the government of America’s largest city.
Mamdani defended her, despite the media firestorm. She is a white woman from an affluent background. Indeed, Weaver is the daughter of a Vanderbilt University professor who owns a Nashville residence worth about $1.6 million. Nonetheless, Mamdani’s appointee seeks to destroy white, middle-class homeowners while living as a white-collar transplant in Brooklyn.
The broader DSA housing agenda Weaver advances is a black flag waved against white, middle-class America.
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