Yesterday I wrote a post about the socialist victories in New York’s primaries on Tuesday. In it, I quoted from this City Journal article about the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), as follows:

Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America’s top leadership met for an in-person meeting of their National Political Committee (NPC), the DSA’s governing authority. The result of the meeting was “Workers Deserve More!”, a rebooted platform for the organization featuring a host of radical proposals. The document commits DSA to scrapping the U.S. Senate, “abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state,” defunding the Department of War, amnesty for all immigrants, and “replac[ing] the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

That’s not all they want, but it’s a start. It also gives you a hint about why they call themselves democratic socialists: they use what they call “democracy” as a tool. First it’s just the ordinary “democracy” we have today – that is, a republican form of government with checks and balances. The most “democratic” organ of the legislature is the House, because the Senate gives power to states as entities rather than by population numbers. Leftists are angry that in the Senate low-population states like South Dakota (which tend to be red) count for as much as the populous blue enclaves of New York or California. They plan to remedy that flaw. And then they plan to make other branches of government subordinate to the House, which would reign supreme.

Of course, this is at present a dream. But look how far they’ve come in just a few short years.

Also, the whole thing would fall down if the House ends up taken over by the right. If these Democratic Socialists ever get sufficient in numbers, however, they plan to make that impossible any way they can. Whether or not elections are “rigged” or outright fraudulent in blue cities and states, if you don’t believe the left wants to do it and will do it if possible, you don’t understand their drive for power.

This triumph of “democracy” – “our democracy” – is the process part of it. The content is indeed things like the abolition of prisons (except perhaps for their political prisoners), open borders (the better to get more third-world denizens here), hatred of Israel and Jews (and probably for those Christians who aren’t with the DSA program) – and the destruction of Western Civilization.

You think I made that last part up? I did not; see this:

The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District founded a group in college that called for the total destruction of the West.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress who made career out of “community organizing,” wrote in her biography for an opinion piece in independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she “helped launch the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign Columbia University Apartheid Divest.”

“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” the group said in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post.

In May 2024, eight years after she graduated from Columbia, Chevalier was back on campus advocating alongside the group she founded, known as CUAD, wearing a keffiyeh and a t-shirt emblazoned with the group’s name.

This isn’t ancient history for Chevalier.

More here:

She co-founded Columbia University Apartheid and Divest (CUAD), an organization that did not merely oppose the state of Israel but also celebrated terrorism outright. After the death of Yahya Sinwar, CUAD’s Substack published a glowing eulogy of the Hamas terrorist who masterminded the October 7 attack on Israelis. CUAD hailed him as a “hero of the revolution” guided by “pragmatic optimism.” The group called on its followers to “reflect on how we can make ourselves more like him.”

Avila Chevalier was also involved with the related group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which explicitly celebrated the October 7th terrorist attack as a “historic win.”

We cannot count on the people of New York to stop her from becoming a member of the House of Representatives. After all, she’s got a “D” after her name now as the official Democrat nominee in the 13th District:

She wants to abolish not just the police but the very concept of policing entirely. For good measure, she views interracial relationships with suspicion, thought COVID-19 originated in France, and thinks white people are not hygienic.

In an interview with The New York Editorial Board from earlier this month, Avila Chevalier declined to walk back her most controversial statements. She refused to say, for instance, that murderers belong in prison.

There are two ways in which the right is reacting to Chevalier and the other Democratic Socialists who won their primaries recently (it’s not only in NYC). The first way is to be happy, because this signals that the left has gone too far and will be rejected. The second – and I’m in this camp – is to take it as an extremely serious sign, and to believe that they will not fade away in some natural fashion. Too many people in the US now – too many voters – are ignorant of history, economics, and common sense. Too many live in a la-la land where ideas like abolishing the police are not seen as lunatic. Too many think socialism would be just peachy keen. Too many have succumbed to the poisonous virus of Jew-hatred, especially when couched in the language of anti-Zionism backed up by lies about apartheid and genocide.

Way too many.

NOTE:

I know that some of you objected last time I posted a Ruthless podcast video, because they use the f-word a lot. This session also contains language of that sort. Don’t listen if that bothers you too much; I don’t consider it any sort of deal-breaker, because their content is good. They have a lot to say about the Democratic Socialists, and I think it’s well worth listening to:

[ADDENDUM:

And although I think this is totally obvious and goes without saying, it’s still refreshing to hear someone like New York City DSA cochair Gustavo Gordillo be so honest about methods and goals:

“We’re using the Democratic Party as a ballot-access vehicle, not because we share its goals,” Gordillo boldly stated. “We build our own organization, get elected under the Democratic label, caucus with Democrats when it’s useful, and push our own agenda from the inside.”

Here’s the kicker — the line that should have House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries losing sleep at night and/or wetting himself: “We see the Democratic establishment as an obstacle, not a home.”

As I said, this has been quite obvious for some time.

Also, the NY DSA is coming for Kathy Hochul, who is obviously not radical enough.]