Democrats mock Trumps alarm bells but the DSAs communist coup is real

Sometimes a red scare isn’t such a bad thing. Over the last several weeks President Donald Trump has been issuing five-alarm-fire warnings claiming the Democratic Socialists of America are really just communists — and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism. Trump’s rhetoric has been blunderbuss and over-the-top, but the DSA does have a communist problem. The DSA is a matryoshka doll of subversion: It is attempting to infiltrate and take over the Democratic Party (with some success), while Marxists are infiltrating and taking over the DSA (also with some success).In other words, the most important movement within the Democratic Party is in the process of falling under the control of communists.Over the last few years, they have established a majority on the DSA’s National Political Committee, its governing board. As recent reports in The Atlantic warning about the direction of the DSA have noted, this is not in keeping with the original vision of the organization.The late Michael Harrington was the biggest founding figure of the DSA, and he was a genuinely democrat socialist.(The need for the adjective “democratic” before “socialist” stems from the fact that so many varieties of socialism are undemocratic.)A 20th-century intellectual and organizer, Harrington came to prominence with his 1962 book on poverty in the United States, “The Other America.”Harrington’s policy prescriptions may have been misbegotten, but he wasn’t a hater with totalitarian tendencies or an opponent of Western civilization obsessed with destroying Israel — in fact, he was pro-Zionism.Harrington and similarly battle-hardened socialists of his generation had plenty of experience watching social organizations get penetrated and destroyed by Marxists-Leninists via the process that Trotskyites called “entryism.”So they wrote a provision into the DSA’s bylaws allowing for the expulsion of anyone “under the discipline of any self-defin...