Mamdani, Piker, El-Sayed. Cleon Skousen Called It in 1958

Part 2 of the Naked Communist list. Cleon Skousen’s 45 goals went into the Congressional Record in 1963. This episode walks goals 22–30: ugly art as civic religion, obscenity law that still exists on paper and nowhere else, porn as wallpaper, sex as identity plus hobby, churches turned into HR with hymns, school prayer gutted by a phrase that isn’t in the Constitution, and the Founders recast as slumlords in wigs.Opener is the present tense: Mamdani governing as a democratic socialist in New York, Piker calling communism the honorable end goal, El-Sayed doing the “I’m not a socialist” handshake while running the same program. Goal 15 was capture a party. The energy is in the cities that write the party’s software.Skousen isn’t holy writ. The cultural half of the list is your timeline. Part 3 is coming.