Socialists and Islamists once toppled a shah. Then came the reckoning.

The Democrats will control both houses of Congress in January. On the party’s left flank, the Democratic Socialists of America saw six new House candidates win, joining Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). The DSA’s own post-election statement boasts that its members will fight for Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and an arms embargo on Israel.

Michigan elected Abdul El-Sayed, the nation’s first Muslim senator. New Jersey elected Adam Hamawy to the House. These are different developments, but they have prompted a familiar question on the right: Is a red-green alliance taking shape in American politics?

An activist minority need not command a majority to shift a party’s agenda.

The red-green alliance is a name for tactical cooperation between the revolutionary left and political Islam. They disagree