Dan Hart – WashingtonStand.com
The government of the United States may soon be headed toward territory it has not encountered since the Civil War: having sitting members of Congress who openly defy the Constitution and express the desire to overthrow America’s constitutional republic in favor of a government based on socialist and communist principles.
This possibility has become much more likely as the true intentions of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) become increasingly laid bare. With the recent primary victories of DSA members Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez of New York and Melat Kiros of Colorado, there is a distinct possibility that November’s election will see all three become members of Congress, as each of their congressional districts is deeply blue.
As documented by City Journal last month, a curious phenomenon within the DSA has been occurring in recent months. One would expect that the radical positions of the party would begin to moderate as more and more democratic socialists win public office, including the mayoral victories of Zohran Mamdani in New York, Katie Wilson in Seattle, and the virtually assured victory of Janeese Lewis George in the District of Columbia in November. Instead, the official platform of the DSA is radicalizing even more.
During the party’s National Political Committee (NPC) last month, the DSA revised its platform to call for the abolition of the office of the President and the Supreme Court to be replaced by “an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress,” the abolition of police and prisons, giving ownership of corporations to the public, giving universal amnesty to illegal immigrants, and even “explicitly naming Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.”
As The Washington Stand has previously reported, DSA candidates like Darializa Avila Chevalier combine virulent anti-Semitic views with demanding that all property from landlords be seized and to “literally abolish the border.” Chevalier was also co-founder of an anti-Israel campus group that declared it was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
A recent video compilation of DSA party leaders describing the ultimate goals of the party makes it quite clear that the party indeed has ambitions to topple the United States government:
Frances Gill (DSA Los Angeles): “We have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast. The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within.”
Amy Wilhelm (DSA Seattle): “Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire’s failure in ways that we can, ultimately to overthrow our own empire.”
Hazel Williams (DSA San Francisco): “U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away. It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle.”
Sarah Anastasia Milner (DSA Portland): “… to build a mass movement that can use the leverage of workers to hit the kill switch on American imperialism here within the American empire.”