WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt believes her generation is drifting toward the far left thanks to a mix of “laziness” and “liberal indoctrination” on college campuses.
Leavitt, 28, made the assertion Sunday as she ripped into the “bad faith” actors who highlighted an interview she did with Fox News’ Jesse Watters last week about the rise of the far left, during which she argued that some young people are lazy, before elaborating on the phenomenon.
“A combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long,” Leavitt argued on X about the factors leading to the far left’s rise.
“There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead,” she wrote.
Both President Trump and Leavitt have described the self-styled democratic socialists who won recent Democratic primary victories as “communists.” Many of those lefty victors have insisted they are socialists, not communists.
The radical primary-race winners have unnerved the Democratic establishment and Republicans alike.
Meanwhile, Leavitt also suggested that school choice could be part of the remedy for the rise of the radical left and underscored that she was not trying to paint all young people as lazy.
“It’s also true that many Gen Z Americans are hardworking, entrepreneurial, and deeply patriotic, and it’s vital we protect the American Dream for them,” she wrote.
“As the President has correctly warned, ‘communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4, 1776.’ ”
During her interview with Watters, Leavitt warned that a full-blown “communist revolution” was unfolding in Congress and called communism “the biggest threat” to America in 250 years.
Many of the lefty winners in Democratic primaries so far have been in deep blue areas such as House districts in New York City.
Trump warned about the rise of communism during his addresses at Mount Rushmore and the National Mall for Independence Day.
“Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen,” he vowed Saturday.
Vice President JD Vance has similarly warned that left-wing populism “actually is very popular” and that “Republicans should be more worried about that.”
