Watch the rallies long enough and the picture stops being confusing. Rainbow flags next to Hamas scarves. Women’s marches that go silent the moment a girl in Kabul is locked out of school. Campus feminists who will lecture a Christian baker into bankruptcy and then shrug at honor killings. The progressive left has spent half a century preaching liberation. Hardcore Islam would hang the preacher.
So why the alliance?
William Teach asked the question again this week at The Pirate’s Cove, pointing to a clip that has been making the rounds. The argument is not new. It is just getting harder to laugh off.
I keep wondering why the left is so obsessed with defending an ideology that would be the first to execute them. Democrats have spent decades fighting for things like women’s rights, and yet they defend countries where women are banned from school, where honor killings happen, and where wives have no legal protection from abuse. They wave pride flags at every parade, and yet they defend countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.
On the surface they agree on nothing. One side wants abortion on demand, gender as a costume, and the family as an optional lifestyle. The other side wants a legal system that treats women as half-witnesses and homosexuals as criminals. That contradiction does not bother the organizers because the partnership was never about shared values. It is about a shared target.
They Cannot Build Until the West Falls
What they have in common is the enemy. The West. The country that still, however bruised, runs on a Bible-soaked idea that the individual is made in the image of God, that speech is not a crime, and that the state does not own your soul. The Marxist cannot finish his revolution while that order still stands. The Islamist cannot impose sharia while that order still stands. So they tear it down first and fight over the ruins later.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? They are agreed on the demolition. That is enough for now.
The Marxist is sure he is the smart one. He platforms the imam, launders every massacre as “resistance,” and votes the activists into city hall. He thinks he is using the Islamists for muscle. History is not kind to that conceit.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called the pattern what it is: old ideological lines giving way to operational alliances. They do not need the same destination. They only need the same enemy. Free, self-governing people.
Iran Already Wrote the Ending
In 1978 and 1979, Iranian leftists, nationalists, and Islamists locked arms to bring down the Shah. Workers struck. Students marched. Marxists did the street work and told themselves they would inherit the future. Ayatollah Khomeini took the country. Then he purged the people who handed it to him.
Unions were crushed. Universities were “Islamized.” Leftist parties that had backed the referendum for an Islamic republic discovered, too late, that the clerics did not need them anymore. Revolutionary courts did the rest. Thousands of political opponents were tried and killed. The Tudeh communists, the student Marxists, the useful theorists who thought they were riding a tiger. They were food.
That is not a metaphor. That is the rehearsal.
Islamists do not hide the method. They say they will use the left until they have numbers and institutions. Then the rainbow flag comes down. Then the lecture about “no right to judge” becomes a courtroom with a different law. The left hears the words and keeps marching anyway.
The Useful Idiots Have Offices Now
This is no longer a campus hobby. New York’s black-red alliance made it municipal. Zohran Mamdani ran as a socialist and as a relentless critic of America and Israel, then took City Hall. Melanie Phillips has described the glue holding that coalition together. Islamists and ultra-leftists do not share a moral universe. They share a loathing of the West and a special hatred for the Jewish state. Israel is the battering ram. Knock it down and you have knocked a hole in America.
Look at the supporting cast. Darializa Avila Chevalier, a convert to Islam and a DSA-aligned candidate, co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group whose stated aims include the “full eradication of Western civilization” and the cultivation of unrest in America. She has called for abolishing police, prisons, and borders. She supported Hamas after October 7.
She is not a fringe blogger. She is what the coalition produces when it wins primaries.
The same pattern is spreading through Democratic politics. Anti-Israel politics as a loyalty test. Open borders as a sacrament. Any criticism of radical Islam treated as a hate crime. The American Spectator has noted how the old economic left has been replaced by an identity army that now includes people suddenly fascinated with Islam.
The proletariat was supposed to do the job. Now the job is assigned to migrants, campus radicals, and anyone willing to treat the American founding as original sin.
A second clip Teach flagged shows the moral collapse in miniature. A white liberal woman insists she has no right to judge radical Islamists. Asked whether she has more in common with a Trump supporter or a radical Islamist, she answers the Islamist. Someone shouting “Allahu Akbar,” in her telling, is better than a MAGA hat.
That is not compassion. That is self-erasure with a press pass.
She would rather share a sidewalk with a movement that stones adulterers than with a neighbor who voted wrong. She will not judge the honor killing. She will judge the church picnic. She has been catechized to see her own civilization as the only real villain, so every enemy of that civilization becomes a friend of convenience.
The West Is the Prize
Call it the red-green alliance, Islamo-leftism, or the red jihad. The label matters less than the mechanism. One faction wants a godless state that remakes man. The other wants a religious state that submits him. Both need the constitutional order gone. Both have discovered that American institutions, universities, and a guilt-soaked Democratic Party will hold the door.
The Islamist is not confused about women, Jews, or sexual morality. The left is confused about almost everything except its hatred of the country that made its slogans possible. That is why the partnership works. One side has doctrine. The other side has institutions and a media chorus that will call every warning “bigotry.”
When the job is done, they will not vote on the spoils. They will settle it the way Tehran settled it. The people who thought they were in charge will learn, in a hurry, that useful idiots are useful only until they are not.
A nation that will not defend its own inheritance should not be shocked when others show up ready to inherit it. The left keeps fighting for hardcore Islam because it cannot stand the West enough to notice the noose.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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