As has been the case throughout history, the “powerful” friends of the Islamists will eventually learn who has really been in charge the whole time.
There is a script for what happens to a revolutionary left that decides political Islam makes a useful ally, and the American left appears determined to perform every act of it. The Democratic Socialists of America have spent 2026 becoming the most consequential force in Democratic politics, and they have done it while binding themselves, cause by cause and candidate by candidate, to an Islamist political project whose ultimate vision of society would erase the very people now lending it their energy.
The fastest way to halt the Socialist ascent is not to debate the marginal tax rate or the rent freeze. It is to make plain where the road ends for the junior partner, because the experiment has already been run, and the junior partner does not walk away from it.
The name for this arrangement is the Red-Green Alliance, and it is not a coinage of the fever swamps. Scholars at King’s College London and Bryn Mawr documented it more than a decade ago in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, describing how radical leftists and Islamists, despite worldviews that ought to make them enemies, converge on shared frames of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism to build a common front against the West.
Red stands for Marxist and socialist radicalism. Green stands for Islamism, the political ideology that wants Sharia to be the law of every land. To see this alliance operating in a (slightly) more advanced stage than we’re seeing in America, just look to Europe. Unless there is a massive and/or divine intervention, the continent is already captured.