There is a lot of talk about DSA candidates, as if left of crazy is something new.
There is not.
All Democrats have really done is create a label for the most visible faction of their party. They call them DSA. They call them democratic socialists. They call them progressives. They call them the activist wing.
But the ideas did not suddenly arrive with the label.
The question is not whether DSA is different from Democrats.
The question is how different DSA is from Democrats.
For years, Democratic politicians have defended or embraced positions involving abolishing ICE, defunding or radically restructuring police departments, dramatically increasing taxes, expanding government income guarantees, decriminalization, lax enforcement, open-border policies and an ever-expanding welfare state.
[X] SB – Gavin Newsom on illegals
CA in the aggregate. Impacts of HR 1. 1.4 million Californians losing their insurance.
16.7% losing their insurance.
Choice. Different choice. Expanded healthcare in a controversial way.
The DSA faction simply says the quiet part louder.
And now Democrats have a problem.
They want America to believe that a radical faction has broken away from the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party somehow wasn't progressive enough.
That is the story.
The reality is more complicated.
Because the DSA movement is not appearing in a vacuum. It is emerging from inside the Democratic coalition.
And that is why Democrats want to put some distance between themselves and DSA.
They need you to believe there is a Democratic Party and then there is this weird little socialist cousin who wandered in from the basement.
But voters have watched the evolution.
The argument tonight is not that every Democrat is a DSA member. That's obviously not true.
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