A fundamental error distorts news about the Democratic Socialists of America’s takeover of the Democratic Party. Journalists claim that the DSA’s radical contenders and their comrades are defeating “moderate” Democratic incumbents. Pundits are wondering how pro-Hamas Abdul El-Sayed deprived “centrist” Congresswoman Haley Stevens of Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.
While the largely triumphant DSA candidates are as left-wing as advertised, the “middle-roaders” whom they are ousting are no such thing. Far-left Democratic incumbents are losing to far-far-left DSA challengers.
To judge Stevens’ alleged centrism, consult her American Conservative Union/CPAC ratings. ACU averages key roll-call votes into lifetime CPAC scores. With 0% farthest-left and 100% farthest-right, moderate Democrats should land in the middle quintile, between 40% and 60%.
Stevens’ lifetime CPAC rating is a paltry 5%. While Americans for Prosperity (AFP) gave her a 9% lifetime score, Heritage Action’s total was a microscopic 1%.
Congressman Shri Thanedar lost his primary to DSA favorite Donavan McKinney. Thanedar is no moderate. AFP rated him at 15%. The Institute for Legislative Analysis scored him at 9.14%. ACU/CPAC clocked him at just 1%.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat, D–N.Y., is no centrist. His 8% Club for Growth lifetime performance roughly doubles his 4.22% from ILA. His CPAC score halves that, to just 2%.
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These losing Democrats are not like Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, who thrills and aggravates each party about equally (AFP: 48%). Instead, these super-left congressmen succumbed to super-duper left DSA contestants.
This also explains why the DSA’s darlings so easily dispatched these incumbents, in broad daylight: The Democratic Party finally got where it was going. As President Donald J. Trump encapsulated El-Sayed and Stevens: “You have a communist versus a socialist.”
President Bill Clinton famously declared: “The era of Big Government is over.” He wanted abortion “safe legal, and rare,” signed welfare reform, and cut capital-gains taxes. Were he alive, Evil Knievel could not fly his motorcycle from Clinton’s Democratic agenda to today’s DSA platform.
Now, without perspiring, Bart Simpson could skateboard the gap between Democrats and the DSA. The former enabled the latter.
• Today’s Democrats scotched cash bail, let thugs avoid jail, and returned them to their criminal careers. The DSA wants prisons vacant and padlocked.
• Under President Joe Biden, Democrats tore the southern border wide open and welcomed some 10 million largely unvetted illegal aliens. The DSA advocates the next logical step: “amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status.”
• Senator Charles Schumer of New York led Democrats into a 76-day federal shutdown, to impoverish ICE personnel. The DSA would avoid such drama and simply abolish ICE.
• Democrats are plotting the National Popular Vote Compact to neutralize the Electoral College without a constitutional amendment. The DSA program bluntly says: “Abolish the Electoral College.” It also would junk the Senate.
• Democrats boast about expanding the U.S. Supreme Court, so it would take a jump to the left. The DSA would substitute a “judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”
• Some Democrats attack Columbus Day and call it Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Francesca Hong, DSA’s pick for governor of Wisconsin, wrote via X in November 2020: “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621. If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx and women so be it.” (On Tuesday, she executed an Olympic-grade flip-flop: “My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.”)
Rank-and-file Democrats applaud these developments. A July 17-20 Fox News survey found that only 41% of registered Democrats have a favorable opinion of capitalism. However, 52% feel positive about socialism. Fully 59% cheer the DSA.
Democratic congressmen Tom Suozzi of New York and Adam Gray of California launched Promise to America to hobble the hard Left. “We are capitalist, not socialist,” their pledge reads. “We want safety, not lawlessness …We are proud, not ashamed of America.” Since June 25, among 212 House Democrats, only 10 have signed this patriotic manifesto.
The DSA’s upstarts are suffocating today’s non-centrist Democrats. These incumbents have no right to complain. They planted the socialist seeds that grew into the communist weeds that now are asphyxiating them and the modern Democratic Party.
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