Fox News intensified its ongoing attacks on Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, as host Jesse Watters delivered a sweeping monologue accusing the popular but controversial Democratic mayoral nominee of being a communist, portraying his supporters as “radicals,” and calling for the return of an anti-communist crusader.

“These are the same dumb Marxist ideas that we’ve been hearing for decades,” Watters declared, “and it’s just destruction. At a certain point, you have to think, democracy is not a suicide pact, right?”

“We’re just not gonna allow a faction of radicals in a great city like this to come in, elect the guy, and have it destroyed,” he said, appearing to suggest some form of action against Mamdani, who is not a communist but a self-described Democratic socialist.

“What kind of democracy is that?” Watters asked, suggesting electoral outcomes he opposes are not true democracy. “It’s not tolerable to do that.”

Describing Mamdani as “Kamala Harris with a beard,” he went on to declare that while America “won the Cold War … Marxism survived, and these teachers at universities got bolder.”

“So you have unchecked immigration, and you have unchecked indoctrination, and you spit them all out into Manhattan, and they vote for a communist who wants to destroy the city, and we’re supposed to sit back and let it happen? I don’t think that’s a very good idea,” Watters declared, appearing to suggest, falsely, that undocumented immigrants and non-citizens are voting.

“I think we have to bring back Joe McCarthy.”

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