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The Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar supported the statements made by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, this Wednesday and warned about the advance of socialism in the United States, appealing to the experiences of Cuban and Venezuelan exiles as firsthand witnesses of the consequences of that ideology.
"for years, I have noticed that socialism is not just a threat abroad. It is growing here at home, openly and aggressively," Salazar wrote on his X account.
The trigger was an interview with Johnson on the show Fox & Friends, where the Speaker used the term “mini Mamdanis” to describe the rise of openly socialist candidates across the country, referring to Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York since January 2, 2026.
"There are mini Mamdanis appearing all over the country. They are openly in favor of socialist and Marxist ideology. This is something we have never seen before in American history," stated Johnson in the interview.
The Speaker went further to warn that the phenomenon "is about moving away from a constitutional republic towards a utopian communist ideology," and noted that "the extreme left has all the energy, emotion, and money" within the Democratic Party.
Salazar, daughter of Cuban exiles born in Little Havana in Miami, directly connected those warnings with the experience of her community.
"The Floridians in the south know exactly where Marxist ideology leads because many in our community escaped from Cuba and Venezuela after seeing how it destroyed freedom, opportunities, and entire nations," wrote the congresswoman.
Salazar represents District 27 of Florida, an area with a high concentration of Cuban and Venezuelan exiles, and has been warning for years about the danger of socialism on American soil.
In 2020, she had already declared: "We cannot allow the U.S. to be destroyed like Chávez destroyed Venezuela and Fidel Castro destroyed Cuba."
The name Mamdani became the central symbol of the debate. The 34-year-old democratic socialist won the mayoralty of New York in November 2025 with 50.8% of the votes and took office on January 2, 2026 with an agenda that includes free buses, universal childcare, and rent freezes.
After their victory, the Democratic Socialists of America declared: "In New York City, socialism has won."
Trump called him a "communist" and "Marxist," and threatened to cut about 7.4 billion dollars in federal funds to New York, although he later met with him at the White House.
For Salazar, the message is clear: "America was founded on freedom, free enterprise, and constitutional government, not on socialist fantasies that always end in fear, control, and authoritarianism. We cannot normalize this dangerous ideology in the United States."
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