DAVID MARCUS: What Ro Khanna told me about his party's future and Biden's 20M illegals

Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is simply a antheral successful a rush. On Tuesday, helium was astatine the halfway of the ballot to merchandise the Epstein files, and erstwhile I saw him, connected the mode to his bureau successful the Cannon building, helium asked if I could locomotion and talk, arsenic helium had a fewer stops to make. 

"Sure thing," I said, and we were off.

I wasn’t determination for Epstein. I wanted to cognize astir the aboriginal of his Democratic Party. So I started by asking if helium and it person moved the extremity of the societal information nett from manus up to handout.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks astatine a run lawsuit for Zohran Mamdani successful New York City connected Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. New York voters are turning retired aboriginal successful precocious numbers for a mayoral contention that's captured the country's attention.  (Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"That’s not my vision," Khanna said. "My imaginativeness is an FDR-like imaginativeness wherever we request to person wealthiness procreation crossed this country. We request accumulation and manufacturing and making things crossed America."

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He pointed retired that Roosevelt did not lone person handouts, helium besides helped industrialize America.

I pressed him connected his telephone for $10-a-day childcare for each Americans. Isn’t this, on with his Medicare for each policy, a escaped elephantine payout from the state? Again helium pivoted to FDR.

"It’s the New Deal," helium said. "I judge successful an economical measure of rights, successful nationalist healthcare. That’s what FDR believed in: cosmopolitan childcare. Under FDR, we had warfare nurseries, bash you cognize why?"

I could person guessed, but it was due to the fact that idiosyncratic had to ticker Rosie the Riveter's kids arsenic she built planes and tanks.

FDR and the New Deal truly bash look to beryllium astatine the bosom of Khanna’s economical vision, and portion conservatives, particularly the aged guard, thin to hatred the New Deal, they’d apt instrumentality FDR implicit Karl Marx, who seems to beryllium the inspiration for others successful his enactment these days.

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By the clip I shifted my questions to immigration, we had reached an elevator, the lone 1 the congressman took successful our 25 infinitesimal traipse. "The stairs are faster," helium told me.

This was a accidental to bring the road, wherever I live, to the halls of powerfulness successful D.C., wherever I'll lone spell arsenic a reluctant tourist.

A caller canvass recovered that astir 2 thirds of Americans judge amerciable migration is simply a existent situation and not a media narrative.  (Left: (Photo by David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Right: (Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images) Right: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images))

"People accidental to maine each the time, 'Democrats fto 20 cardinal amerciable immigrants successful with small to nary process, present they accidental each 1 of them has to spell done owed process.' What bash you accidental to them?"

For emphasis, I added that if you springiness 20 cardinal radical each a one-hour hearing, the full clip it would instrumentality is implicit 2,000 years.

Khanna launched into thing of a filibuster, telling stories of his ain migrant parents, however his parent stressed learning English and learning our nation’s past and values. And, that helium had won the lottery and, arsenic an American, should absorption connected his responsibilities much than his rights.

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The congressman was ducking the question, but it was notable that this pridefulness successful and gratitude to America stands successful absorption to the rhetoric of his party’s ascendant socialist wing.

At this point, Khanna had to duck into a meeting. He motioned to maine to join, but a polite defender informed america my Adidas Gazelles and achromatic sweater were not due attire. In my defense, it's a bully sweater.

When helium came out, I took different changeable astatine the question of the 20 cardinal amerciable immigrants.

FILE - Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., participates successful a debate, June 2, 2025, successful Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

"You’re asking astir the millions already here. I judge that if you committed a crime, a convulsive crime, past determination needs to beryllium a deportation aft owed process. But for galore radical who are here, giving childcare and moving successful hospitality, oregon operation and paying taxes, I bash judge determination needs to beryllium a way to legalization."

And determination it was. They get to stay.

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As the elevator doorway opened to the crowded, agleam achromatic subterranean pathways we had already travel through, I told Khanna, "Here’s precisely the radical connected the roadworthy volition accidental to that: 'If Democrats fto 20 cardinal successful past time, wherefore won’t they bash it again if fixed power?'"

It seemed to land.

"That’s a precise bully point, that’s a precise bully question, due to the fact that we don’t privation to suffer elections," Khanna said, suggesting the unfastened borderline was to blasted for caller GOP gains.

Two takeaways here, 1 is that Khanna and the Democrats deliberation the immense bulk of the 20 cardinal Biden illegals get to stay. The different is that they whitethorn program to run, astatine slightest nominally, successful favour of Trump’s borderline information measures.

As we made our circuitous way backmost to his office, I asked the congressman astir Israel. He agreed that adjacent 10 years ago, his enactment was acold friendlier towards the Jewish state.

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"What changed?" I asked.

He didn’t miss a beat, "Netanyahu." Khanna had initially supported Bibi’s efforts to deed Hamas aft the massacre of Oct. 7, but aft respective months, felt they were going excessively far.

If determination is simply a metallic lining for Zionists, it is that, dissimilar New York City Mayor-elect and Socialist wunderkind Zohran Mamdani, Khanna does enactment the close for Israel to beryllium arsenic a Jewish State.

We some agreed that if President Donald Trump’s bid effort holds, the Israel question whitethorn soon slice to the background.

Finally, backmost successful Khanna’s bureau for a fewer minutes, I asked him astir Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who has argued fervently that his enactment is moving excessively acold left.

"I similar John," Khanna said. "Maybe I shouldn’t accidental it. We person drinks, but I’m a progressive Democrat, truthful we person disagreements."

It was that infinitesimal erstwhile I realized that this was the 3rd oregon 4th clip Khanna had referred to himself arsenic a "progressive Democrat," and for the precise archetypal time, this operation I’d known for decades had a caller meaning. It meant, "not socialist."

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This is an incredibly important favoritism and volition beryllium the large skirmish enactment for the psyche of the party. "Progressive Democrat," until astir 10 minutes ago, meant those farthest to the left. It included Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y. and her squad. Now it is opening to mean, "a spot to the close of the socialists."

As the midterms approach, this jockeying successful what was erstwhile the enactment of Jefferson and Jackson volition turn much intense. A thin and bare Ro Khanna is racing to beryllium astatine the forefront of the fight.