FORMER UNIVISION NEWS ANCHOR JORGE RAMOS RECENTLY PRESSED DSA NATIONAL CO-CHAIRS ASHIK SIDDIQUE AND MEGAN ROMER ON WHETHER THEY REGARD CUBA — AS WELL AS VENEZUELA AND NICARAGUA — AS A DICTATORSHIP. NEITHER WOULD SAY SO.
cess has come new scrutiny, and many DSA of- ficeholders aren’t entirely comfortable with it. In July, the DSA’s leadership issued an up-
dated platform that calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate, defunding the Pentagon, offering universal amnesty to illegal immigrants, trans- ferring the ownership of major corporations to the public, and replacing “the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.” It also includes a demand that police budgets be cut “annually to zero.”
KOOKY PLATFORM Taken as a whole, the platform enthusiastically embraces values that are by turn wacky and au- thoritarian. Former New York Times columnist Pamela Paul has called this intolerance “the most troubling characteristic of contemporary progressivism.” The irony is that all this is antithetical to the group’s origins. Its original chairman, from its
formation in 1982 until his death in 1989, was Mi- chael Harrington, a thoughtful social critic who criticized American capitalism but intended to keep the DSA a patriotic, reformist institution. The current DSA has abandoned Har-
rington’s vision to such an extent that even some DSA leaders feel they must distance themselves from some kooky parts of the platform. Ocasio-Cortez casually laughs that “I have a lo-
cal city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy.’” She then insists the media should only pay attention to what DSA candidates say now. The problem with any rhetorical retreats is
that over at the DSA mother ship, its officials in- sist the group’s platform is real. Just this August, on the occasion of what
would have been Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday, the DSA praised him as “an organizer, a fighter, and stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while bizarrely de- nouncing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for supposedly committing genocide against the Cuban people.
The DSA leadership refuses to
walk away from its statement of admiration for the Cuban dicta- torship. Former Univision news anchor
Jorge Ramos recently pressed DSA national co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer on whether they regard Cuba — as well as Ven- ezuela and Nicaragua — as a dicta- torship. Neither would say so. Romer even went so far as to
claim that “Cubans have access to their democracy in a way that we do not.” This moral depravity infuriates
many moderate Democrats. Flor- ida Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who
DSA national co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer
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