Atlantic Magazine Panics Over Communists Taking Control of Democrat Party

[pjcomix]

Commies are taking over the Democrat party!

You might think that was a charge leveled by some rightwing reactionary who somehow confused socialism with communism. Instead it was the morbid fear expressed by longtime liberal Jonathan Chait in Wednesday's Atlantic magazine, "There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists."

So panicked was Chait at the specter of communism taking over his beloved Democrat party that he did not just mention it in passing. In fact, the C-word was invoked eleven times in Chait's article in which he accuses the Democratic Socialists of America of being the parasitic pathway for injecting communism into its host party.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2026/07/03/atlantic-magazine-panics-over-communists-taking-control-democrat

[Timber Rattler]

They thought that they could control the monster they created indefinitely to use solely against Republicans.

Wrong.