Far-Left Candidate Spreads Fake News About Sweden, Norway To Hype Socialism In America

When it comes to promoting socialism, a track record of misery and failure can make it hard to create a compelling argument.

That’s why a new crop of socialists currently taking over the Democrat Party are committed to selling gullible Americans on the false promise that their type of socialism would actually work.

One of the group’s most outspoken congressional hopefuls recently used this tactic by inaccurately comparing her vision for a socialist America to the supposedly idyllic cultures of Sweden and Norway.

As Breitbart’s Alex Marlow explained in response to Darializa Avila Chevalier’s claim that the two nations are socialist:

Marlow said, “Neither Sweden nor Norway are socialist. They’re called social democracies, but they basically have capitalist market economies.”

Watch the audio clip here:

It’s just the latest in a string of inaccurate and otherwise objectionable comments from one of the most extreme far-left candidates in America’s recent memory:

Please meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidate for Congress:

A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican (or Haitian, it’s not clear) immigrant parents, she converted to Islam claiming that Palestine is the most important issue in her… pic.twitter.com/MpDWXiejgZ

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) June 23, 2026

Here’s the full text from the post above:

Please meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidate for Congress:

A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican (or Haitian, it’s not clear) immigrant parents, she converted to Islam claiming that Palestine is the most important issue in her life.

Said she uses the American flag as a napkin.

Attended a rally one day after October 7 celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians.

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Calls white women ‘ugly colonizers.’

Called for the defunding the police and abolishing prisons.

Said not a single deportation, including of criminals, is justified.

Hates the police calling them ‘pigs’, calls U.S. service members war criminals and says the U.S. is a disgrace of a country.

She’s only running in NY because she knows she wouldn’t stand a chance in Florida.

Do you really think someone like this has the best interests of Americans in mind?

This Wall Street Journal piece goes into greater detail regarding how socialists like Chevalier get their facts all wrong:

The issue is that Nordic countries aren’t socialist. Their economies are highly competitive free markets, built on private ownership and global trade. Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden consistently rank among the top 15 countries with the most economic and personal freedom. And Scandinavians aren’t simply sitting around snatching up government benefits. The labor force participation rate is higher in Nordic countries than in the U.S.

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“Bernie is too much of a socialist for Scandinavia that he probably could not get elected in any of the Scandinavian countries,” Sen. Rand Paul recently said in an interview with John Stossel. The former prime minister of Denmark, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, even had to issue a clarification in 2015 directed at American politicians: “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”

Scandinavian countries offer more expansive public services than the U.S. But those benefits are paid for with steep and broad taxation that reaches torelatively low income levels. The U.S. has a much more progressive tax system. While the Nordics see capitalism as an engine of wealth creation, the DSA calls for dismantling capitalism itself. Its vision of a standard 32-hour workweek goes further than Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, where the norm hovers around 37 hours a week.

These countries do have lower levels of crime and economic inequality than the U.S., and higher levels of public trust and social cohesion. One viral TikTok from an American who moved to Norway shows strollers of babies left unaccompanied outside stores while their parents presumably shopped inside—a risk you’d never take in any American city. “Yet trust comes easiest to ethnically and culturally homogenous places,” Stephen Eide wrotein City Journal. “The United States is significantly more diverse than Scandinavia across almost every metric, including race, ethnicity, language, and country of birth.” Plus, big social programs are easier to roll out in countries like Norway where the entire population is less than that of New York City. The comparisons are apples to oranges.

And CNN added this last month:

Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old investigator at a public defender’s office in New York City and doctoral student, has emerged as one of the most prominent left-wing challengers in the country after Mamdani endorsed her bid to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

But the posts from her since-deleted account from over the last decade have drawn scrutiny amid her high-profile challenge of Espaillat, a five-term incumbent and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. That primary, scheduled for June 23, has become a closely watched proxy battle between the Democratic Party’s establishment and its ascendant democratic-socialist wing, with Mamdani’s endorsement last week elevating the race’s national profile.

While reports in the New York Post and Politico previously highlighted several deleted social media posts in which Avila Chevalier criticized police, Israel and Democratic politicians, a CNN KFile review of hundreds of deleted posts and reposts found ones that called for abolishing police, prisons and borders; tweets about communism; calls for open borders and zero deportations; and expletive-laden attacks on Democrats.

Here’s some additional context: