Sen. Rick Scott Leads Charge Against Socialism as Leftist Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Pushes Radical Agenda

With socialist extremism creeping closer to the American mainstream, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is drawing a bold line in the sand. On Thursday, Scott introduced a Senate resolution condemning socialism as a failed ideology—a fiery counterpunch to radical Democrats like Zohran Mamdani, the socialist New York City mayoral candidate openly campaigning on policies that would dismantle private property and hand the economy over to government bureaucrats.

Scott didn’t mince words:

“Socialism NEVER works. It’s destroyed countries, crushed economies, and robbed millions of their basic human rights. I’m proud to lead a resolution condemning this failed ideology and reminding the far-left that Americans will ALWAYS reject it.”

The resolution—titled “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism”—calls out history’s undeniable record: socialism doesn’t “lift people up” as the Left pretends. It collapses into communism, authoritarianism, and blood-soaked dictatorships. Stalin’s gulags, Mao’s famines, Castro’s firing squads, Pol Pot’s killing fields, Chávez and Maduro’s economic wreckage—all are stark reminders of what happens when government replaces God, freedom, and the free market.

Scott, representing Florida communities filled with families who fled Castro’s Cuba and Maduro’s Venezuela, underscored the stakes:

“Talk to the thousands in my state who risked everything to escape these regimes. They’ll tell you what socialism really delivers: misery, poverty, and oppression.”

The senator’s resolution arrives as Zohran Mamdani—a self-avowed socialist backed by the radical Democratic Socialists of America—tries to seize power in New York City. His platform includes government-run grocery stores, the abolition of private property, and the Marxist dream of “seizing the means of production.” In other words, Mamdani wants to turn America’s largest city into Caracas on the Hudson.

Scott blasted the hypocrisy of Democrats like Mamdani, who rant against capitalism while profiting from it. He reminded voters in a Wall Street Journal letter that capitalism gave him, a boy raised in public housing, the chance to build a business empire and later run the nation’s largest healthcare company—the American Dream Mamdani wants to erase.

At a time when President Donald J. Trump is restoring American greatness and exposing the dangers of globalist, left-wing ideologies, Scott’s resolution serves as a clear warning: socialism must be defeated before it destroys the United States from within.

America was built on faith, freedom, and free enterprise—not Marxist schemes that leave nations in ruins. The choice before voters is stark: the prosperity of capitalism under Trump’s leadership, or the poverty and despair of socialism under Democrats like Mamdani.

History has already given its verdict. The only question now is whether Americans will heed the warning—or let the Left drag this nation down the same road of destruction.