World · Jacobin · · 1h
On Dems, the DSA, and the S-Word
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It’s just been the dancing days of the dirtbag left.1 They are a great gift to Donald Trump.2 Every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA represents a fundamental threat to our party and our country. This is not a story about a few idealists seeking to reduce healthcare costs. It is about a small group of radical extremists pursuing a strategy to take over the Democratic Party and ultimately our country in order to impose an agenda that would devastate our economy and fundamentally dismantle our system of government.3 These DSA people are deeply anti-Israel and they’re deeply anti-America.4 All of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, should hold hands and say, “We need a loving, gentle capitalism that lifts everybody up,” but to say that . . . we need to seize the means of production, which is what the DSA is calling for, and embrace a socialist system of government — it’s not only nuts, it’s dangerous.5 I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the S-word: “schism.” I really do. Everybody’s always said, “No, no . . . we’re a big tent.” And there’s . . . just some shit that I can’t be in the same tent with.6 We disagree with socialists. We don’t want this extremism. . . . We want mainstream.7 The Democratic Party is becoming an orgy of socialism.8 AOC is now a moderate compared to these wackjobs. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. . . . Us normie Democrats need to stop being such fucking pussies. This is the Reichstag moment.9
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