Natalie Harp's brother is a radical far-left Sandinista-loving nutjob

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Since his father’s death, Preston, 38, has been on his own political journey, venturing to the outer reaches of leftist political identity — “radicalized,” he said. He said he came to see the United States as a villain in world history and found himself identifying with socialist Latin American countries that have drawn America’s ire — first Cuba, then Venezuela and Nicaragua, where he moved with barely any belongings in 2023.

He said he is prepared to die violently for the cause of the Sandinistas, the Marxist-influenced revolutionary movement that has dominated Nicaraguan politics for decades under President Daniel Ortega.
“To be a martyr is the most honorable way to die in my opinion,” Preston, who lives a spartan existence under a tin roof in the inland town of Masaya, told The Post in an interview. “Glory to the martyrs!”

Preston and Natalie grew up not just as siblings but as friends and classmates, home-schooled by their mother “in the hopes of indoctrinating us with conservative Christian and patriotic values,” he said.

Their relationship suffered its first rupture, Preston said, when he was 15 and Natalie 12. Their mother allowed Preston to join a debate club in San Diego, where he was drawn to a liberal-seeming lecturer who recommended several books, he said.

The most influential, Preston said, was Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” Preston said he read the book, which sought to highlight the darker elements of American history, by flashlight at night to avoid detection by his mother.

“From that day on,” he wrote in a personal essay he shared with The Post and put on Facebook, “I was never the same.”

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