The Democrat Party has slowly begun recognizing a growing cancer within its ranks. It’s a growing radicalism that, on the surface, touts many of the policy objectives the party has long advocated, but with an extremist agenda that seeks the fundamental overturning of the American economic and governmental system that has defined the nation since its founding.

These Jacobin radicals within the Democrat Party are the largest socialist party within the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America. As The Washington Post notes, “The DSA is not a political party. It’s an activist organization, so its members typically run as Democrats.”

Because the DSA is primarily an activist organization, its members see the Democrat Party as effectively a vehicle for gaining political power to eventually bring about the political and social transformation of America.

While the Post acknowledges that both the DSA and Democrats are effectively heading down the same policy road, the paper notes that mainstream Democrats don’t want to go as far down the road of radicalism. For example, mainstream Democrats just want to “smooth out capitalism’s rough edges.” DSA adherents want to eliminate capitalism entirely.

National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru observes that the DSA, with its recent successes in Democrat primaries in Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, is playing coy about its political beliefs and agenda. DSA operatives are intentionally downplaying their extremist policy goals, including some of their members like Darializa Avila Chevalier, who recently won a Democrat House primary in New York, deleting a number of her social media posts in which she advocated for such things as “no more police at all ever.”

It’s a classic political play for Democrat politicians to present themselves as moderates to appeal more broadly to voters, only to tack left once elected. Joe Biden was the most recent example of this phenomenon on the national political scene. President Donald Trump can be criticized for various things, but at least he implements the policies he campaigned on. He is who he says he is, and he does what he said he would do. Unfortunately, that quality is a rarity among politicians these days.

So, what is the DSA’s platform, what are its members’ goals, and how do they differ from mainstream Democrats?

Both contingents see bigger government as a necessary step toward realizing their political objectives. For mainstream Democrats, the goal is not to transform the government but rather to increase its power to meet the social and welfare goals they believe in. For the DSA, the goal is nothing short of a complete and total transformation of America’s governmental system.

For example, the DSA’s platform calls for abolishing the Senate and for Congress to appoint a new Supreme Court and a new president. Regarding America’s system of checks and balances with three coequal branches, the DSA regards it as a tool of “the ruling class.” In its place, some DSA members envision a “communist caucus” in which the authority of government rests on straight-up communism.

The DSA calls for eliminating capitalism and replacing it with state-run socialism. This would include such policies as single-payer healthcare and social housing. The DSA also advocates for a “living wage,” defined as a national minimum wage of around $30/hour. Being opposed to capitalism, DSA members also call for even more heavily “taxing the rich.” One of its elected members, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has advocated a 70% tax on those making over $10 million annually.

The DSA wants to significantly reduce America’s military spending and, in turn, use that money to fund more social programs. The DSA is also antisemitic, as its first foreign policy plank is the ending of all aid to Israel.

When it comes to illegal immigration, for the DSA, there is no such thing. It would grant immediate mass amnesty for all current immigrants within the U.S., no matter their legal status. And all deportations would be ended. Furthermore, the DSA would grant full voting rights to all noncitizens living in the U.S.

The elimination of police, to be replaced with a “community force under communism,” would be the means for policing the populace. In other words, the DSA advocates a form of secret police to control the populace.

As noted, these are radical ideas that directly attack the very foundation of the value system upon which our great nation was established. The DSA’s goals and policies are inherently anti-American. Not only is the DSA a real threat to taking over the Democrat Party, but it is also a real threat to the U.S. and our individual liberty and rights as recognized and protected by the Constitution.

Americans need to stand up and call out the DSA for what it is: a communist organization falsely posing as an American political party. In truth, the DSA is an enemy of America that is taking advantage of our electoral system in order to gain enough power to enact a tyrannical governmental revolution.

DSA operative in their own words…

Frances Gill — DSA National Political Committee: “[DSA has] a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire [the United States], the belly of the beast … the most important thing we can do is take that empire down from within.”

Amy Wilhelm — DSA National Political Committee: “The role of socialists … is really to facilitate the defeat of our own nation.”

David Jenkins — DSA National Political Committee: “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.”

Megan Romer — DSA National Political Committee and Red Star Caucus: “Read on to learn why we do not, in fact, condemn Hamas and why no socialist should. … Red Star is a Marxist-Leninist caucus in DSA. Our primary goal … is to abolish capitalism and, ultimately, to achieve communism. We do not believe that capitalism can be reformed into socialism – it must be overthrown and replaced.”

Christopher Winston — DSA International Committee: “I do not want to save America, let it rot.”

Mirah Wood — DSA International Committee: “Glad we agree Amerikkka should be destroyed we all have unity over one great and necessary project for humanity.”

And from their candidates…

Darializa Avila Chevalier — Democrat nominee in NY-13: “You can call that communism, you can call it socialism, you can call it pancakes. … A world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward. … Seize all properties from landlords” & “Seize the means of production. … I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”

Melat Kiros — Democrat nominee in CO-1: “[9/11 was] inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East. … [The Hamas attack against Israel] is the inevitable consequence of apartheid, of decades of occupation.”

Abdul El-Sayed — Michigan Senate candidate: “I believe that we do need to defund the police. … I’m Abdul El-Sayed, the only Senate candidate for abolishing ICE.”

What next?

Speaking at Mount Rushmore on the eve of our 250th birthday, President Trump warned:

“There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty… It’s the enemy of the Constitution above all. It’s the enemy of July 4th, 1776… It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.”