"There has always been radicalism on the American left. But Democrats didn’t invite the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground into their party in the 1970s.In the 2020s, though, Democrats invited communists into their tent. Now the communists are taking over."
"Members of Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the police, prisons and borders and “seize the means of production,” as the future congresswoman from New York’s 13th congressional district, Darializa Avila Chevalier, once argued.
"The co-founder of a group that called for “nothing short of the total collapse” of the “American empire,” with the goal to “eradicate America” and “Western civilization,” Avila Chevalier doesn’t deny she’s a communist.
"And why should she?
"There’s a temptation to dismiss and whitewash the rise of the socialists. We shouldn’t.
"Sure, the DSA is still constrained by the constitutional order — but it isn’t constrained by Democrats.
"“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” Van Jones warned on CNN as he watched the New York primary results come in.
“This is a battle between the establishment and this insurgency.”
"What battle? The establishment has surrendered to the DSA’s hostile takeover on every front.
"Establishment Democrats like Nancy Pelosi had the chance to sideline Squad members when they first appeared, yet the former speaker eventually coddled them, perched them in important committees and appeared on magazine covers celebrating their ascendency.
"If Democrats were unwilling to sideline illiberal bigots like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) back then, what makes anyone think they’ll stand up to the socialists now?
"Top Democrats virtually tripped over themselves to endorse Nazi SS tattoo man Graham Platner in Maine, a Mamdanista in all ways save the flannel shirt." . . . More...
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at The Washington Examiner
