I’ve written countless times in recent years about the model established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to get.I’ve written countless times in recent years about the model established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to get its members elected to office. It’s a brilliantly cunning strategy that goes like this: First, the DSA identifies a Democrat-safe, if not guaranteed, district. These are areas where registered Democrats…
I’ve written countless times in recent years about the model established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to get its members elected to office. It’s a brilliantly cunning strategy that goes like this:
First, the DSA identifies a Democrat-safe, if not guaranteed, district. These are areas where registered Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans; that is, where a Republican candidate has virtually no chance. (RELATED: Mamdani Won, But Socialism Still Lost)
Second, the DSA identifies offices in which the incumbent Democrat — typically, a more conventional Democrat, a party person — is highly vulnerable. That part of the process is crucial. It must be a target of opportunity in which the incumbent can be defeated in the party primary. (RELATED: Electing the Image: Mamdani and the Mimetic Turn in Democracy)
The individual is morphed into a registered Democrat, joining the party only to subvert and transform it from within.
Third, the DSA recruits a member — someone with charisma and political skills — willing and capable of challenging and defeating the incumbent. Someone like an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Zohran Mamdani. Importantly, this person need not be a Democrat. The individual merely needs to be a “democratic socialist.” The individual is morphed into a registered Democrat, joining the party only to subvert and transform it from within. (RELATED: Mayor Mamdani: A Victory for Champagne Socialism)
Many informed Democrats are aware of this slick maneuvering and are not happy about it. You might recall the serpentine James Carville screeching about lifetime socialist Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic Party Primary: “But Bernie’s not a Democrat!” No, Bernie never was. The Senate “Independent” way back in 1980 had served as a formal presidential elector to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Bernie in 2016 merely adopted the Democrat label to try to get himself elected president. And many of the dupes that comprise the Democrat rank and file willingly pulled the lever for him, giving him an astonishing 13 million primary votes that year, not far behind Hillary Clinton.
