DSA commies aim to take over the Democratic Party just as they captured . . . the DSA itself

How worried should Democrats be about the Democratic Socialists of America?As someone who knows the DSA inside out, I can say with authority: They should be very worried indeed.I was a DSA member for years and served in local leadership.But today’s DSA — illiberal, dogmatic and hostile to traditional American political norms — is not the organization I once knew.It includes disciplined, radicalized networks that have methodically expanded their power over the last decade in pursuit of extremist goals.As the Democratic Party grapples with the DSA’s growing influence and extremism, it would do well to recognize that the same dynamic underway now — first accommodation, then capture, then surrender to insurgent radicals — already played out on a smaller scale within the DSA itself.And there’s only one defense: out-organizing it.For decades, the DSA was mostly composed of a cohort of aging Boomers, remnants from the group’s founding in 1982.It prioritized open debate and political tolerance.Following in the tradition of founder Michael Harrington, members viewed the DSA not as a revolutionary vanguard but as a reformist bridge to mainstream labor-liberalism; they prioritized parliamentary process and pluralism.But in the mid-2010s, the character of the organization began to change.I was in Boston at the time and witnessed the last days of the “old” DSA.New, younger members began to enter the organization as Sen.Bernie Sanders and the socialist magazine Jacobin grew their followings.As the DSA’s cultural power expanded and it began to amass electoral victories, more leftists of varying extremist commitments were drawn in.This was an explicit strategy called “the big tent,” advanced by the then-DSA Jacobin left.In August 2025, DSA delegates voted to remove a constitutional provision barring Leninists from entry — a provision that was already a dead letter.The old DSA’s high-mindedness became its fatal weakness.Veteran members assumed ...