The Third-World Communist DSA is a Real Threat to Republicans
Republicans should not grin with smug self-satisfaction. This is dangerous for them, even though blue moderates and establishment figures feel the heat right now.
Joseph Ford Cotto | July 7, 2026
The Democratic Socialists of America, as an institution, has been hijacked by young revolutionaries.
They have turned it into a communist outfit, devouring the Democratic Party from within.
Republicans should not grin with smug self-satisfaction. This is dangerous for them, even though blue moderates and establishment figures feel the heat right now.
Once a marginal group committed to social democracy, DSA has become a major vehicle for third-worldist communism. It rejects everything that made America a first-world superpower. Its activists push open borders, the abolition of police and prisons, the dismantling of constitutional checks, and solidarity with America's enemies abroad.
This is not harmless liberal arts undergrad talk. It is a direct assault on the institutions and initiative that built American strength. It threatens to lock the country into unfathomable decline if left unchecked. Republicans who dismiss DSA as a cringeworthy fad will regret it for the rest of their lives.
Michael Harrington, a secular humanist who came out of the Roman Catholic social justice traditions, founded DSA in 1982 to create a pressure group that would push the Democrats leftward. He wrote rules to rigorously block communists and their influence. Harrington knew from bitter history how such groups destroyed earlier socialist efforts. Nowadays, much like the man himself, his vision of anticommunist socialism is dead.
During and after the Bernie Sanders Democratic presidential campaign in 2016, waves of young, college-educated activists flooded the DSA ranks. They were radicalized by post-Great Recession economic frustration and the conviction that wokeness, despite its rapid ascendance, never went far enough. They were also infuriated with blue gatekeepers who effectively denied Sanders a fair chance at the nomination. With them came Marxist-Leninist organizers who saw opportunity in the chaos.
By the 2025 DSA convention, delegates scrapped the anti-communist clause and elevated the "right to resistance" for Palestinians as a central principle. Nearly half the national leadership now openly calls itself communist. Harrington's DSA is a reviled memory. In its place stands an organization that treats liberal democracy as the enemy.
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