I Call the DSA Corrupted by the Worldwide Jihadist Movement
A few days before the New York and Texas primaries, I wrote that the Democratic Party needed to bar the Democratic Socialists of America.
I was not predicting election results. I was warning about a strategy. Now with Tuesday primary results, I am Kristallnacht scared.
The DSA is not the Democratic Party. It is a separate political organization with its own ideology, endorsements, candidate pipeline, volunteer network, and theory of power. Yet its candidates run on the Democratic ballot line and primary every pro-Israel incumbent. It is unusual that so many incumbents are facing serious challengers.
It is their strategy.
The DSA does not have the ballot access, public trust, national reach, or institutional infrastructure to run as a separate party. So it uses Democratic primaries to gain access to Democratic voters and borrows the credibility that comes with the word “Democrat.” Those are their words.
When a majority of voters see someone running as a Democrat, they naturally assume that person is part of the Democratic coalition. The DSA holds itself out as part of the Democratic coalition. In fact, it is not. Most voters do not perceive the difference. They see a new generation stepping forward.
They see the word “Democrat,” and that is often enough.
DSA candidates are recruited, screened, trained, and given a script that they must follow in lockstep within a tightly defined political agenda. That is why the same language appears among all their candidates, including strong anti-Israel rhetoric.
I know how different that is from the traditional Democratic process because I ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2014. No one from the Party came to me and handed me a rigid ideological test. Or told me there was one approved way to speak about every issue, or one script I was required to repeat in order to have the right to run.
The DSA only has one candidate in each primary, while in an open seat there may be several challengers. That is an advantage to their candidate.
The Democratic Party includes labor, civil-rights, environmentalists, teachers, retirees, professionals, small-business owners, students, Jewish, Black, Latino , Muslim Democrats, progressives, moderates, and LGBT.
That is messy. It is democracy.
The DSA is different. In significant ways, it is outside of the Democratic big tent. In other ways, it hijacks our issues and uses them to campaign against us as if these causes were not part of our history.
They label opponents as too old, corrupt, and controlled by billionaires. That is not true. Republicans are the party controlled by billionaires.
They claim only the DSA represents working people. Democrats have been the party of unions/workers for generations.
It is an effective script because it belongs to Democrats. DSA speaks to real anger about housing costs, wages, student debt, health care, and a political system that too often feels inaccessible to ordinary people.
But it is also a blames of the Democratic Party, when Republicans control all three branches of government.
Democrats fight for labor rights, civil rights, reproductive freedom, environmental protection, voting rights, universal health care, and a stronger social safety net.
Most billionaires give to Republicans.
Democrats receive money from a few billionaires with a heart, from unions, civil-rights organizations, health-care advocates, environmental groups, teachers, retirees, professionals, local business owners, activists, and millions of individuals who give because they believe in the Democratic Party’s values.
Let’s be clear: union political dollars come from workers joining together, paying dues, electing leaders, and using collective power to protect wages, benefits, retirement security, workplace safety, and the right to bargain.
The DSA slogan of “billionaires versus workers” is not really an economic analysis. It is a false political weapon.
The DSA falsely accuses every incumbent of corruption and illegitimacy and turns every disagreement into a morality play and a generational war.
That should concern every Democrat, because Republicans are watching.
Donald Trump and Republicans are already pointing to the DSA and calling its candidates communists and radicals. Every DSA primary victory makes it easier for MAGA to tell swing voters that the Democratic Party has been taken over by forces outside its historic mainstream.
That is the trap.
Then there is Israel.
Criticism of Israeli policy is legitimate. Democrats should debate military aid, settlements, Gaza, Palestinian rights, Israeli leadership, and the best path to peace.
But that is not the focus of the DSA’s political agenda.
DSA candidates are openly hostile toward Israel. Call for the end of Israel, the Jewish state. At the same time, there is remarkably no comparable moral urgency about Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and their calls for Israel’s destruction.
They even go so far as to say October 7 was justified. Their criticism of Israel is not supported by facts.
That imbalance cannot be ignored.
I am not surprised that I cannot find any evidence of a formal organizational alliance between the DSA and Islamic Jihad. But what else explains their outrage over Israel defending itself, while Hamas attacked on October 7 and at least 30,000 Iranian protesters were reportedly killed in two days in January, yet the DSA refuses to comment?
That is not the kind of representative I want in Washington.
I call the DSA corrupt on behalf of the worldwide jihadist movement, which is currently on the move everywhere in the world.
That is a political pattern.
I believe it reflects the growing influence of an anti-Israel movement that is increasingly comfortable sharing narratives, slogans, and strategic goals with forces whose aim is to isolate Israel, weaken American support for it, and make Zionism politically toxic.
The Democratic Party needs to protect one of America’s strongest democratic allies and go on the offensive now to distinguish between Democrats and the invading, compromised DSA.
The remaining primaries matter.
Democratic voters deserve to know who is backing candidates, who is organizing their campaigns, what ideological commitments are required for their endorsements, and whether those candidates actually represent the voters’ true values.
The DSA is abrasively and deliberately taking over the Democratic party.
If Democrats do not defend their party now, it will be lost.
