New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh have more in common than campaigns to run major cities in the United States. Both are under 40 and elected members of their state houses. Zohran, 33, is a member of the New York State Assembly; Fateh, 35, is a Minnesota senator. Both are charismatic, Muslim, and are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), running on the Democrat ticket with radical, socialist ideas.
DSA is not a political party, but it is acting like one. It is a parasite taking over the Democrat party, which means it is becoming harder for traditional Democrat candidates to rise within the party. Every Democrat candidate should be scrutinized for policy ties to DSA, even if they don’t advertise the connection.
As the traditional, old Democrat Party is cannibalized by DSA members, voters should understand that the DSA aims to fundamentally change the United States. The DSA calls the Constitution “ossified.” Its socialist platform is so radical that the DSA essentially proposes trashing the Constitution completely, developing a “new political order,” and writing “founding documents of a new socialist democracy.” If allowed to flourish, DSA will render the U.S. society as we know it unrecognizable.
Here is a closer look at some of the DSA’s platform that rarely, if ever, come up during campaign speeches.
1. Ditch the Senate and Electoral College
DSA’s platform puts an emphasis on abolishing the Senate and the Electoral College, which would leave people in less populated states without effective representation. We know more densely populated areas lean Democrat. If popularity were the only measure, the east and west coasts and large cities in between, like Chicago, would likely win every election by simply out-voting the many small farming communities and sparsely populated counties that lean conservative and deserve a voice. The founders created the Senate and the Electoral College to preserve their voices.
2. Close the Prisons
DSA cloaks its intentions by using difficult-to-decipher language in its platform, such as, “We must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state.” It is a fancy way to say DSA wants to get rid of police and prisons, which it views as “white supremacist institutions.” DSA calls for the “Freedom for all incarcerated people.” It wants to stop “police occupation of black and brown communities,” and it wants to remove firearms from law enforcement officers and security guards. The lawless DSA plan would “repeal local ordinances that criminalize” homelessness, squatting, and those “involved” in the sex and drug trades. But the platform also calls for “community-based response systems to transphobic and homophobic violence, especially violence targeting black trans women, that is entirely separated from the police and criminal law system,” the DSA platform reads. So, protection for this group, but no one else, apparently.
3. War on ‘Whiteness’
It would be difficult to be white under DSA policies, which demand a fight against “white supremacy” that goes beyond treating everyone equally. DSA wants payback for “racial oppression” in part through reparations and DEI policies, and also links “whiteness” to capitalism that must be “combat[ted].”
4. Less Work, More Money
Empowering workers in labor unions is a major part of the DSA platform. “The socialist movement and the labor movement will rise or fall together,” the platform reads. DSA, “demands,” a “four-day, 32-hour work week with no reduction” in pay; “universal childcare” and education for all, and a $15 minimum wage. It sounds like DSA wants you to work and let the government raise your children.
5. Government Owned Everything
DSA calls for more regulations and nationalization or “social ownership,” of railroads, utilities, and “critical manufacturing and technology companies,” plus “regulation of corporate, communications, data, and financial sectors.” DSA wants a tighter federal grip on healthcare, banks, insurance, and real estate, and it would regulate food prices.
6. Free For All
With no discernible way to pay for it all, DSA envisions a world where the government meets your every “need,” at no cost. It advocates for free health care; free birth control; free abortions “on demand;” free “fertility treatment;” free chemical castration and sex surgeries to perpetuate the lie of “gender affirming care;” free communication with prisoners; free college (but less student testing in schools); free medical school; free water, energy, food, and public transit. And if you can’t make rent with all your other expenses paid, DSA wants to make it harder for landlords to evict renters from housing.
Democrats who embrace rotten DSA policies festering in their party are paving the way for a nation that would make our founders weep. Some policies on the DSA wish-list got a toehold during former President Joe “Autopen” Biden’s administration, such as the DEI hirings and many environmental measures in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.” This shows that Democrat candidates don’t have to voice affiliation with DSA to adopt its socialist policies.
It is time for some Democrat soul-searching. Traditional Democrats should root out DSA members and return to a party JFK would recognize. Or openly admit that today’s brand of Democrat — one with a heavy dose of socialism that turns away from the reliable Constitution — is the new foundation of the entire party.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
