The Democrat Party’s old establishment guard is fading, allowing the radical left to emerge and quickly gain influence across a party that no longer represents the working class.
The Democrat Party is desperately seeking relevance among young voters. With the Democratic Socialists of America rising in popularity, particularly among Gen Z voters, they are willing to embrace these socialists for purely political considerations — if doing so helps them win the youth vote and set them up for future electoral power, then by all means, welcome aboard.
This appears to be the logic behind Hillary Clinton’s recent comments. Referring to recent successes of DSA candidates within Democrat primaries, she said, “The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment, like who can actually respond particularly to young people’s very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves? I think that is healthy.”
An “experiment” that’s like drinking a small amount of strychnine and wondering if it will actually kill you.
Furthermore, the evidence from the DSA itself regarding its political goals should be warning enough for establishment Democrats. The DSA’s agenda has been quite clear: it wants to take over the Democrat Party and, in doing so, eliminate the old guard along with its agenda and establish its socialist aims.
Clinton’s comments also suggest she has few principled concerns if she views embracing socialism as a legitimate political option.
Conservative commentator David Strom observes, “The Democrats have a problem that Clinton and most Democrats are trying to address, and it is a huge one: they are losing their working-class base due to their adoption of luxury beliefs and dependence on college-educated elites, and their rising acceptance of socialism is just an extension of their adjustment to that reality. Socialists are typically downwardly mobile elites and elite aspirants, who ought to be in the sweet spot for Democrat Party recruitment, but they are also highly disaffected with the establishment as a whole and committed to destroying it.”
Seemingly affirming this Democrat Party situation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to prominence as one of the first DSA members to win an election, has recently officially renewed her DSA membership.
Apparently, AOC had allowed her membership to lapse, possibly to play the whole "I used to be, but I am no more," gambit in case popular Democrat opinion turned against the DSA. Now, however, AOC sees her connection to the DSA as an asset. And it appears she is eyeing 2028 for a possible presidential run.
According to the organization, “While it is atypical for DSA to address the membership status of individuals, ongoing discussions about the 2028 presidential campaign have prompted this release.”
Clearly, Clinton sees the only faction of the Democrat Party that seems to be gaining any steam is the DSA. So, she appears to have decided that instead of fighting against them, she'll join them ... at least from a distance.
The trouble is that only seeing DSA candidates get beaten in the midterms will end the Democrats’ experiment with the DSA. Should the DSA see success, the socialist problem within the Democrat Party will only get worse.
