The Commies Mount An Across the Board Push
DSA targets local elections around the nation in a well-planned strategy.
A decade ago, it was all “Russians! Under my bed!” everywhere. Those Russians were fictional, for the most part, part of a campaign organized by Clintonistas to explain away her humiliating defeat, and magnified by various Deep State operatives into an effort to discredit and weaken the first Trump term. (The previous sentence counted as conspiracy theory then; now it’s unexceptionable truth, like so many of those conspiracy theories.)
But while the Russians weren’t actually calling the shots, the the Latté Communist Party, more officially known as the Democratic Socialists of America, has been seeking out election victories everywhere. And winning some.
New York’s Islamo-Communist Mayor Mamdani is their biggest winner, but as the recent New York primaries demonstrate, not the only one they’ve been pushing. Then there’s the member of the DSA’s “Das Reich” division, Graham Platner, who’s running for Senate in Maine.
And even in my hometown, not very Communist-friendly, we have a candidate for County Mayor, Beau Hawk, who’s sort of East Tennessee’s Graham Platner: A beefy guy, with a name Southern enough to make him a friend of the Duke boys. Except that the Duke boys didn’t run with no commies.
Is Hawk a commie? Well, he marched in support of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and was quoted by the Venezuelan outlet, the Orinoco Tribune, in support of Nicolas Maduro and in opposition to Donald Trump. Hawk says he was “young and dumb” when he did this — it was in 2020, so all of six years ago, but now he’s mature enough to be mayor? — and that he was misquoted by the Orinoco Tribune. Well, possibly. The American press mangles — or makes up — quotes often enough that we can’t dismiss the possibility that it happened here.
But. What else in his career really suggests that he’s changed his mind?
The DSA and its allies have targeted local elections because they can mobilize a small but decisive number of voters in low-turnout elections. This is precisely the strategy I described here a while back in “The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up.” And even though very few Knox County voters favor Maduro or communism, here’s why our current (term-limited) conservative/libertarian mayor, Glenn Jacobs, might be replaced by a guy who looks pretty commie-ish to me.
I’m often reminded by a scene in the Apple TV show, Physical, set in the early 1980s when Republicans were still viable in California. The protagonist’s husband, a lefty enviro-type, is running for State Senate and it’s looking good: Poll watchers report a lot of people with long hair and birkenstocks showing up to vote. He thinks he has it in the bag when suddenly a fleet of buses pulls up and disgorges hundreds of Mormons, neatly dressed and obviously there to vote for his Republican opponent, who winds up beating him handsomely.
I sometimes ask local Republicans, “where are your busloads of Mormons?”
The DSA has them. Hence its wins in New York City:
That’s all it takes, when most people stay home.
They know it, and most voters are asleep. Between now and November, people who don’t want to be ruled by commies need to get to work.
Oh, sure, it’s fun to mock the DSA as social losers, a sort of Incel-revenge story:
But, you know, commies are usually social losers, downwardly mobile scions of upscale families. That’s why they go into leftist politics: Because they can’t get status through normal, more productive paths.
And even where they don’t win they drag the “mainstream” Democrats with them:
Other than James Carville, there’s no loud opposition from within Democratic leadership ranks. If you want to stop the commies, it’s up to you. Turnout, turnout, turnout.
And, you know, call them out. We’re seeing that in my community:
Most people don’t want to vote for communists, which is why the commies call themselves “Democratic Socialists.” But that’s just branding. Spread the news, and spread it fast, if you don’t want to see this succeed.
It's easy to point and laugh. And we should, but also need to treat this like an opposing army that has a debilitating, virulent disease that WE can catch. So we need to exise it from our political discourse, if we can. Ram home the "communists hate America" messaging (it's true) and use it to beat their brains out. But understand this is war to the knife, and knife to the hilt. Never thought I'd say this, but Carville is right. They AREN'T democrats. Watch the video of the Weiner from California when confronted by a Hamas supporter. He's terrified, there is literally fear in his eyes. He knows he's toast with these DSA people. He realizes they won't eat him last after all. They are Communists, and play rough. Their organizational structure of NGOs, Non-Profits, and Antifa are well established, fulfilling the organize, train and equip functions required for any successful "movement". On the good news side, it appears funding is becoming a problem as USAID was dissolved and the fraud investigations widen. This surge of activity may be them feeling that they are ready to take the gloves off. Or it may be that they are finding themselves in a rapidly closing window of opportunity as the money dries up. "Use it or lose it" or "now is the time" is going to be a question that looms large in the mid-terms along with the Iran punitive expedition.
I might regret saying this, but I welcome the heightening of the contradictions. The Democrats have remained viable by a combination of massive electoral cheating, and shameless dishonesty before the voters. The Socialist alliance will force them to abandon the latter strategy. If a majority of Americans willingly vote for these radical policies, we’re doomed in any case.