As self-proclaimed “democratic socialists” continue to rant and rave against capitalism, the need for principled, liberty-minded leaders is more imperative now than ever. Rather than being assailed from without by communist foreign powers, American liberalism — defined by its belief in the power of personal liberty and economic freedom – is being infiltrated from within.

Whenever anyone, especially a politician, starts a sentence with, “Let’s be clear,” you know they’re on the defensive.

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong should serve as a sobering reminder for Americans as to why we have the Constitution. The freedoms of speech, press, and assembly outlined in our founding document are diametrically opposed to the Chinese Communist Party’s record of censorship and ruthless crushing of dissent.

As the Democratic presidential front-runners jockey for position as Giver-of-Free-Stuff in Chief, their promises on health care mostly sound like, as former Vice President Joe Biden would put it, “a bunch of malarkey.”