crats into a vehicle for imposing their social- ist vision. So, given that the DSA isn’t going to change
its revolutionary spots, how can moderate Democrats beat them? They should look to how former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair and others han- dled a similar problem in Britain’s Labour Party some 30 years ago. The Militant Tendency was an explicitly
Trotskyist “party within a party” which had infiltrated local districts, dominated the par- ty’s youth wing, and got many of its members elected to Parliament. It explicitly said its goal was to influence
or capture the Labour Party from within and turn it into a vehicle for socialist ideas. Blair and other Labour leaders declared the
group a “parasitic infiltration,” banned several of Militant’s more visible members, and isolat- ed others. Militants eventually got the message and became part of a new Socialist Party. The problem is that there are few signs
that enough leading Democrats will seek to neutralize the DSA before it’s too late. The ability to do so will have to lie with the voters, if they wake up fast enough. The DSA has been handed a gift by the
failure of conventional liberals to govern ef- fectively or efficiently in both major cities and blue states. Republicans have also dismally failed to promote their own solutions to urban problems. The result is that socialism, which has
never really taken root in America, is now in danger of becoming the secular religion of many voters — especially disillusioned young people. It is up to everyone who embraces Ameri-
can values to recognize the danger of the DSA and perform the same kind of political hygiene that has neutralized extremist move- ments in America’s past — from the Ku Klux Klan in the 1930s and ’40s to the Vietnam-era radicals of the 1960s and ’70s. If we fail, our children may inherit an America that few of us would recognize.
DEMOCRATS NEED CRUSHING DEFEAT TO RESTORE MODERATION
Only then will they move back
to center, writes Dick Morris.
be called Socialist and what was once the Republican Party is now the Party of Trump. The results of the primaries of
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2026 make abundantly clear that both parties are solidly controlled by ideologies that leave little room for moderates. The Republicans are clearly the
party of Donald Trump. His unique dogma of advancing American interests above all else has not only dominated the thinking of his own political base, but of the entire Republican and conservative populace. Free trade is over, and tariffs
to protect and promote American business and workers hold total sway. Tax cuts and slashes in
government regulation and stafing are a given. Illegal immigration is totally halted, and American employment and wages, as a result, are rising. Because so many illegal
immigrants with criminal records are being deported, crime is dropping precipitously. Our foreign policy has a strength behind it that it has often lacked. We mean business in taking down Iran and ending despotic
merica still has a two- party system. But the party we once called Democrat needs now to
regimes like Maduro. We don’t screw around. Despite an almost unanimous
media condemnation of this agenda, the Trump brand and its platform meets such an enthusiastic reception among Republicans that primaries are a mere formality. Trump’s endorsement means everything. On the left, there is not quite such
uniformity, but the consensus of the surviving Democratic primary electorate (after over 2 million voters have left the party and switched their registrations) is becoming obsessively socialist.
Abolishing ICE and opening
borders are increasingly consensus positions among Democrats. Anti-police and pro-criminal
policies find broad acceptance. Opposition to Israel is now the established position of the party. Despite the threat of a nuclear Iran, the war is universally condemned. In such a partisan and extreme
environment, there was little point in even holding primaries. Trump dominates the GOP and the left rules the Democrats. The move toward a socialist
Democratic Party will likely continue until the left meets with the inevitable massive defeats in store for them in the elections of 2026 and 2028. Just as the cremation of George
McGovern in 1972 and the landslide defeats in 1984 of Walter Mondale and in 1988 of Michael Dukakis brought home the message of moderation to the Democrats and their 1992 election of Bill Clinton, it will take massive defeats in general elections to demonstrate to the left the need to move to the center.
ON THE LEFT, THERE IS NOT QUITE SUCH UNIFORMITY, BUT THE CONSENSUS OF THE SURVIVING DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTORATE IS BECOMING OBSESSIVELY SOCIALIST.
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