Joe Scarborough’s attempt to pin New York City’s hard-left primary results on Benjamin Netanyahu is the kind of geopolitical gymnastics that only makes sense inside a Manhattan media bubble. By blaming an Israeli prime minister for voters embracing openly socialist candidates, Scarborough is trying to externalize what is plainly an internal Democratic civil war over identity politics, crime, and economic grievance. The real drivers—defund-the-police rhetoric, soaring retail theft, and a housing market crushed by progressive zoning—have nothing to do with Tel Aviv and everything to do with policies that treat law-abiding citizens as the problem rather than the solution.

For the 2A community the lesson is immediate and practical. Every candidate who rode this “uprising” ran on platforms that treat the Second Amendment as an obstacle rather than a safeguard, promising expanded red-flag laws, assault-weapon bans, and “sensitive place” restrictions that would turn most of Manhattan into a gun-free zone for everyone except criminals. When cities that already suffer the nation’s strictest gun laws still post record smash-and-grabs, the data keeps proving that disarmament correlates with vulnerability, not safety. Scarborough’s foreign-policy deflection simply distracts from the fact that these same politicians will now push those failures statewide and nationally if given the chance.

The broader implication is that 2A advocates can no longer treat local Democratic primaries as distant curiosities. Nominees who win on anti-police, anti-gun platforms in deep-blue cities set the tone for the next Congress and the next state legislature, where they will attempt to nationalize New York’s and California’s gun-control experiments. The only reliable counter is sustained engagement at every level—primary challenges, statehouse races, and relentless documentation that right-to-carry jurisdictions continue to post lower violent-crime rates than the very cities now celebrating their socialist turn.