Mamdani's socialist allies embrace watchdog's warning about their key motive: 'Recruitment ad unlocked'
Socialists celebrate new video claiming they have plans to infiltrate the Democratic Party from within
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Published November 2, 2025 9:20am EST
After an antisemitism watchdog posted a new video warning about socialist efforts to take over the Democratic Party from within, socialist leaders from across the country embraced the video and its message, appearing unafraid of such accusations.
The Canary Mission's advertisement included recorded remarks from various leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) describing their opposition to, and in some cases "hatred" of the Democratic Party, which one speaker says must be torn down. The video also shared remarks from DSA leaders describing how the Democratic Party, which one of the socialist speakers in the video referred to as "toxic," can be used as a "tool" to push forward their aims of destroying the current capitalist society we live in.
At the center of the ad was something Canary Mission referred to as the "cuckoo analogy."
"In nature, the cuckoo survives by trickery. It lays its egg in another bird's nest. The unsuspecting parents raise the impostor as their own until the cuckoo grows strong enough to push the true chicks out," the video's narrator explains. "The DSA is the cuckoo inside the Democratic Party."
But the analogy, which pointed to candidates like self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani, did not appear to bother the socialists it was targeting. Rather, they applauded the video advertisement as a great recruitment tool to get more people to join their ranks.
"New DSA recruitment ad for communists just dropped," joked Nicolás Vargas in response to the video. Vargas has been affiliated with the Central Brooklyn branch of the DSA, according to a 2022 DSA national convention resolution on COVID protections.
"Are you trying to make young people find the DSA more cool?" quipped Marxist-socialist blogger C. Derrick Varn.
"New recruitment ad unlocked," joked Giovanetta Marangoz, co-chair of the New York City Young Democratic Socialists of America.
Other socialist activists were a little more direct in their view that the Democratic Party must be extinguished.
"My biggest gripe is the idea that we’re being deceptive," Allan Frasheri, an at-large delegate to the 2023 DSA Convention who spent time as a co-chair of the University of Florida's DSA chapter, said in response to the video. "DSA is loud and proud: we are fighting for a worker’s party. Only a party of, by and for working people can bring about a better world. The Democratic Party is ultimately one for the billionaires."
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