There are two very memorable moments from my one term in Congress. The first was at my first town hall meeting, winter 2011, in Pompano Beach, Florida, when the South Florida representative of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nezar Hamze, shook a Quran at me in a verbal challenge. You can still watch my response on YouTube. The other moment was in the summer of 2012 in Jensen Beach when a constituent expressed her concern about socialists in Washington, DC. I responded by referring to the Congressional Progressive Caucus as the basis of political Marxists existing in the halls of the Capitol. After all, European communists rebranded themselves as “progressives” in order to infiltrate America, and we all know that the Woodrow Wilson administration was America’s first “progressive” presidential administration.

Why do I mention this? Simple, a true leader sees the battlefield not in the moment, but before the battle is engaged. A savvy commander recognizes the enemy early and determines their objectives and predicts their movements in order to develop a plan that will thwart their efforts, placing them in an untenable position. That is what the military teaches a combat commander to do, why Union Cavalry General JNL Buford was successful in fighting a delaying action at Gettysburg, enabling General Meade and the Army of the Potomac to secure the high ground.

I saw the alignment of a Red (Socialist/Marxist)-Green (Islamic jihadist) alliance targeting America over a decade ago. I was not afraid to call it out, and sadly, even Republicans were too cowardly to do so. In 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney did not invite me to speak at the RNC convention, which was in Tampa, Florida, where I was a congressional representative. I was not invited to the third presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, heart of the district I was honored to represent…and the venue I had worked to offer and secure. The Florida State Senate, led by Matt Gaetz’s Dad, Don Gaetz, redistricted me out of the congressional district that I represented. And even when it was known that St. Lucie County reported greater than 100% voter turnout in some precincts, there was no investigation. We all remember the 4,000-vote shift sometime near midnight on election night.

Nope, I am not angry about that. I am upset that we refused to see the Red-Green alliance.

Some could say that it began with one Barack Obama, who once quipped to the now-deceased Joe the Plumber that we should “spread the wealth” around. Obama would go on to say that “if you own a business, you didn’t build that.” And let’s not forget that it was Obama who invited members of the Islamic jihadist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, to sit front and center for his address at Cairo University; he even praised the Muslim Brotherhood member who became the president of Egypt. And never forget that Obama sent the mad mullahs of Iran a plane load of palletized cash in an unmarked plane in the middle of the night.

But this new embodiment of the Red-Green alliance, Democrat party nominee for Mayor in New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is the purest evidence of this dangerous alliance. Mamdani is a Muslim, which is not a concern, but his rhetoric is that of an Islamic jihadist, which is not up for debate. His weak and insidious explanation of “from the river to the sea” is offensive to anyone with a functioning brain. We all know that saying and that chant; his support of a global intifada is a call to violence and the eradication of the Jewish people. As well, Mamdani is barking about defunding the NYPD and establishing government grocery stores. Government grocery stores? When was the last time we saw that? I did when I visited East Berlin as a young Army officer…no thanks.

Mamdani is the Red-Green alliance, that of tyrannical rule and erosion of personal liberty, rights, and freedoms. He is the manifestation of the movement we have seen hit our streets, resulting in the flying of Islamic terrorist organization flags and violent protests supporting the harboring of criminal illegal immigrants and terrorists, in our Country. Now, this Red-Green alliance stands on the precipice of controlling the most populous and popular city in America, New York City. The city where once, people jumped to their deaths from buildings set ablaze because of Islamic terrorists…or as another embodiment of the Red-Green alliance, Ilhan Omar said, “some people did something.” Oh, and let us not forget the first lady of Hamas in America, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.

Let us no longer cower to the attempts to force self-censorship by the Red-Green alliance calling us who recognize who they are… “extremists,” “Nazis,” “fascists” and “islamophobics.” These are the monikers of a political opposition who are the real extremists, fascists, tyrants and dictators. Leftists fail to recall that Nazi stands for National Socialist…not constitutional conservative. There will never be a toning down of the rhetoric, hence why Islamic jihadists refer to others as “non-believers” and only offer conversion, subjugation, or destruction. Hmm, sounds a lot like leftists, Marxists, and communists.

I am not shocked about the election of Mamdani in the NYC Democratic primary. This is who the leftists/jihadists are, and they own this. We just need to clearly see how dangerous this alliance is for the future of our Republic. Remember they plan to protest on our 249th Independence Day. Quite telling. Funny, “No Kings.” So, tell me, what do you call a fella who wants to dictate what you can eat by controlling where you can buy “what to eat?”

The battle lines are being drawn; it has less to do with political parties but rather two very different and competing philosophies of governance.

Abraham Lincoln called it back in 1865, “The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny.”

Obama, Mamdani, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, Brandon Johnson, Newsome, Karen Bass, the progressive socialist Marxist left, and Islamic jihadists offer us tyranny. I chose Liberty…

Steadfast and Loyal.