This country’s three most powerful Republicans have called the ascendant Democratic Socialists of America and their triumphant primary-election nominees “Communists” who peddle “Communism.”
“These are not social Democrats,” President Donald J. Trump said on June 26. “These are hardcore, godless Communists.”
“I, unfortunately, fear that’s the direction the Democrats are headed. And it is Communism,” Vice President JD Vance told my Fox News colleague Laura Ingraham.
Responding to the DSA’s platform on July 26, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned: “Communism is no longer a far-fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES!”
Is this McCarthyite bluster, or are Trump, Vance, and Johnson right?
“Our goal is Communism,” David Jenkins, a member of DSA’s National Political Committee, said in 2023.
DSA member Cea Weaver is New York City’s Tenant Tsarina. She posted via X in December 2017, “elect more communists.” The next year, she demanded: “Seize private property.”
Weaver’s boss is Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In his Jan. 1 inaugural address, he stated: “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist.” He told a DSA Zoom call in 2021: the “end goal” should be “seizing the means of production.” Mamdani also said, “the abolition of private property…is preferable to what is going on right now.” These comments loudly echo Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ cornerstone collectivist text “The Communist Manifesto.”
The magnificently named Darializa Avila Chevalier rode Mamdani’s endorsement all the way to the Democrat nomination for New York’s 13th Congressional District.
“I’m a Democratic Socialist,” she boasted June 29 on MS Now. She also wants to “seize the means of production,” as she advised in a not-quite-deleted September 2019 X post. She confessed that December: “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag.” In April 2020, she wrote: “Most of the theory I have read is communism but the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.” The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserved 3,657 such messages that Chevalier thought she had erased.
When they are not trying in vain to cover their tracks, DSA types lionize former Communist nations and dictators.
DSA booster Hasan Piker misses the Soviet Union: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th Century.”
After visiting the People’s Republic of China in November 2025, Piker said: “Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.” Never mind Mao’s killing 60 million of his subjects (three times Adolf Hitler’s body count), Piker announced, “I never would and never will” mock Chairman Mao. Indeed, Piker donned a full Mao jacket when he addressed the College Democrats Convention in Washington, D.C. last July 18.
DSA recently celebrated Cuban Communist tyrant Fidel Castro. “DSA Commemorates 100 Years of Fidel,” it cheered on August 13. “Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle…” The DSA ignored the struggle of the 1,314,100 emigres who escaped this workers’ paradise, the Migration Policy Institute estimates, many on rafts and innertubes.
“Workers Deserve More” is the DSA’s new platform, unveiled fittingly on July 14 — Bastille Day. Adorned with raised fists, it brims with Communist ideas.
“Imagine,” DSA urges, “a future without capitalism.”
“You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right,” DSA daydreams. “Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
“When we labor for our common good instead of private profit, we can all have a secure and dignified life,” DSA envisions. “Our enemies are not just individual bosses, but the entire global system of capital.”
DSA hopes to “draft a new constitution…create a democratic socialist republic” and build “a new society from the ground up.”
How?
●“FREEDOM TO FLOURISH”— Create “a 32-hour work week with full pay and benefits, and a living minimum wage” and “cancel all student debt.”
●“HEALTHCARE FOR ALL” — “Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.”
●“HOUSING FOR ALL” — “Housing is a human right. Build new, publicly owned social housing” and “establish universal rent control.”
●“END MASS INCARCERATION” — “Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system…”
●“END THE U.S. WAR MACHINE” — “Defund the Department of War. End all foreign wars and close overseas military bases.”
●“FREE PALESTINE” — DSA wants “a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. End all military and economic aid to Israel.”
●“ABOLISH ICE” — End deportations and “grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status…”
●“DEMOCRACY FOR ALL” — D.C. statehood + give Green Card holders the vote.
●“Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.” Also “Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.”
●“ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY” — “Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries” and “Enact aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations…”
DSA honchos preach much more than Communist theory. They want to torpedo America. Canary Mission unearthed, and M.A. Rothman posted, on-camera comments by several members of DSA’s National Political Committee. DSA’s website explains: The NPC “leads the implementation of DSA’s major political and organizational goals.”
DSA-NPC member Amy Wilhelm stated: “Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire’s failure.”
“We have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast,” NPC member Frances Gill pleaded. “The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within.”
“U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away. It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle,” according to NPC’s Hazel Williams.
DSA’s candidates, manifesto, and top leaders confirm that it is a Communist organization. They’re here. They’re clear. They’re coming for our country.
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