If the "normal" Democrats won't do anything to stop them, then it's up to Republican voters to stop them and keep this disease from spreading. Every Republican ad should show them in their own vicious words
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The DSA Is a Hate Group, and What It Hates Is America
Noah Rothman at National Review, 6-24-26
"As it was becoming clear on Tuesday night that the Democratic primary voters were eagerly handing their party’s reins over to Democratic Socialists, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D.) made his peace with his new Marxist overlords.
"When asked to respond to Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s observation that those who once described themselves as the “dirtbag left” are on the ascendancy, Booker chastised his Democratic colleague for “picking fights” with the insurgents already at war with Democratic establishmentarians. “One of the things that makes the Democratic Party great is it’s a big tent party,” Booker contended. “We need to stay that way.”
"Implicit in Booker’s capitulatory remarks is that, moving forward, the Democratic Party will have a lot of dirtbags in it.
"He’s not the only Democrat making accommodations with the socialist left. Senator Chris Murphy, for example, dissented from onetime Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison’s request that those who “hate the Democratic Party” refrain from attempts to hijack it. “Who is ‘the Democratic Party’ if it’s not the voters?” Murphy squeaked impotently. The voters have spoken, he added, “and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.”
"The revolution depends on figures like these: the spineless, the cowed, and the enervated. They may manage to be eaten last, but the Democratic Socialists of America are coming for Murphy and Booker, too.
"The DSA cannot be coopted, mollified, and incorporated into a broader political coalition. It is not a constituency. It is a hate group. And the object of its hatred isn’t the “Zionists” as they increasingly euphemistically refer to Jews, or the capitalist enterprise. It is America itself. For a while, though, casual observers could be forgiven for thinking that this rabid sect just had a pathological contempt for Israel.
"Even as Hamas terrorists were still at large inside Israel — raping, torturing, and massacring any Jew in their line of sight — the DSA held an “anti-Israel” rally in “solidarity” with the terrorists, who were “not unprovoked.”
"They kept up the pace in the weeks that followed. Almost 140 people were arrested during a nighttime march through New York City — a menacing, destructive outburst in which marchers held signs that read, “I do not condemn Hamas,” and chanted, “There is only one solution. Intifada. Revolution.” On October 28, 2023, thousands attended a DSA rally, which they called “Flood Brooklyn for Gaza” in a direct reference to the October 7 operation that Hamas called “al-Aqsa Flood,” throttling traffic on roads and bridges and harassing Jews.
"Antisocial? Yes. Bigoted? Sure. Criminally malicious? Definitely. But anti-American? Democrats could still tell themselves that was a bridge too far.
"By November, the Democratic Party should have noticed that it was the target of this insurrectionary movement. On November 16, DSA activists descended upon the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on a night when they knew that the party’s lawmakers would be on the premises. They were met by Capitol Police in riot gear, and the two forces clashed violently as the insurgents tried to secure access to the building. “We were rescued by armed officers who did not know the protestors’ intent,” Representative Sean Casten confessed. “I’m also keenly aware that it could have been much worse.”
"If Democrats were going to display something approximating an instinct toward self-preservation, this would have been the time to do it. But the Democrats did nothing. And things have only gotten worse.
"Throughout 2024, DSA-sponsored events — particularly those on American college campuses — contributed to the air of menace the socialist left cultivates around itself. In April of that year, the DSA’s International Committee issued a statement affirming “Iran’s right to self-defense” in response to an Israeli airstrike on what Jerusalem maintained was a Quds Force installation. That July, the DSA’s International Committee also expressed support for Yemen’s Houthis in their effort to close the Red Sea to international shipping and regretted the neutralization of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh inside a safehouse in Tehran.
"The fever didn’t break in 2025. That September, at the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, the DSA-backed mayor of Richmond, Calif. — Eduardo Martinez — “drew cheers” when he defended Hamas’s actions on October 7. So, too, did the members of U.S.-designated terrorist groups like al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who addressed the convention.
“We all know who they are, whether they are in Israel, in Tel Aviv, in Washington, in Germany, in Europe,” said Michigan-based Dr. Nidal Jboor at the conference that was also attended by the likes of Representative Rashida Tlaib. “They need to be locked up, they need to be taken out, they need to be neutralized, to save children.”
"It was a revealing slip. So, too, was the chant that broke out among DSA activists in San Francisco this February. They started out saying “Tax Israel,” but eventually dropped the pretense in favor of “Tax the Jews.”
"Yes, Tuesday night was a great electoral night for the DSA’s chosen candidates. But whom did the Democratic Party’s primary voters endorse? Unreconstructed versions of the militant activists who have tormented the party for years.
"Darializa Avila Chevalier is one. She defeated the sitting chairman of the Democratic Party’s Hispanic Caucus in the House on Tuesday in a race in which voters discounted her very recent endorsement of the abolition of prisons in America. After all, how can there be prisons in a country without justice? They ignored her contempt for American property rights captured in her support for “seiz[ing] all properties from landlords.”
"The voters in her district cared little for her contempt for the American flag, her endorsement of political violence (Chevalier attended that October 8 rally in support of Hamas’s actions), and her refusal to even attempt to lie about how her views have evolved. Those views, as expressed by the group she founded, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), include support for efforts to “undermine and eradicate America” by translating “resistance in Gaza to unrest and violence in America.”
"Aber Kawas is another. She earned the Democratic nomination to a New York State Senate seat despite her contention that the city she will represent in Albany deserved the 9/11 attacks, in which thousands of her fellow New Yorkers perished.
“The idea that we have to apologize for, like, a terror attack that, like, a couple people did, and then there’s no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera, is something that I kind of find, like, reprehensible,” she said, combining a Valley Girl affect with radical Islamist rhetoric. No one asked Kawas to apologize for anything. Perhaps she felt tacitly compelled to do so by virtue of the associations and affinities in her own head.
“For decades, we have been sold a lie: that the U.S. empire defends freedom, advances democracy, and protects human rights,” read the literature produced by Claire Valdez’s victorious campaign. Rather, in her view, the American project is an exercise in imperialism. Indeed, from the Middle East to Latin America, the U.S. is responsible for indiscriminate violence and enslavement to the capitalist project. She even went so far as to revive an ancient Soviet campaign to radicalize Puerto Ricans and agitate for San Juan’s independence.
"They will join Chris Rabb in the new Democratic establishment. He is likely headed to Congress next year after he won his race despite blaming the Bondi Beach massacre of Australian Jews on “Zionists.” So, too, is Adam Hamawy — the nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s twelfth district — who laid out his platform at an event sponsored by the Young Democratic Socialists of America. There, he articulated his opposition to “genocide,” expansively defined, but he subsequently defended his longtime association with the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
"What tethers these candidates is not their shared hatred of the Jews or the banks or the moneyed and propertied classes. They hate America and the West.
"At least, they hate it as it is presently constituted, which is pretty much how it has been constituted for decades. Today, the manifestations of that hatred are particularly frightening for America’s Jewish minority, but the DSA won’t stop there.
"Marxian revolutionaries do not stop. They must consume continually, find new enemies to demonize and scapegoat, and channel their militant vanguard’s hatreds toward productive ends (lest the vanguard come for them, too).
"There is no doubt that Democratic Socialism is on the march. We know exactly in which direction it is headed. It is a hate group masquerading as a political movement, and it would be recognized as such if its policy preferences were right of center. But American institutions have turned a blind eye to the threat, and there may be no stopping it now."
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