DSA’s foreign policy agenda: weaken America, – Latest News
If politics required fact in promoting, the Democratic Socialists of America can be pressured to rebrand to the Democratic Socialists in opposition to America. The far-left insurgents oppose every thing that has propelled the United States to a place of world wealth and management.
Consider its foreign policy. The DSA has a easy purpose: Weaken the nation in order that it can not defend itself or its allies. The world’s worst regimes will then dominate in America’s place.
Lenin and his post-mortem disciples. Getty Images, Toni Misthos/NY Post Design
How? The America envisaged by the DSA will defund its army, shutter its army bases, stop “economic warfare” in opposition to malign actors like Cuba and Iran, cut off all help to Israel, “end immunity for U.S. war criminals,” and prosecute Americans and Israelis implicated within the Gaza “genocide.”
The DSA’s central purpose, embodied in its new platform, dubbed “Workers Deserve More,” is supposedly to raise the proletariat. If the DSA will get its manner, “public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries” will change capitalism. We know how this film ends: much less growth, innovation and worldwide affect for the United States. How does that benefit the American employee?
In this new iteration of the Democratic Party, the patriotism of Democrats of yore, who needed America to be sturdy and do good deeds abroad, is gone. The Democratic Party that supported NATO and Ukraine, opposed tyrannies like Iran and China and voted virtually unanimously to avenge the assaults of 9/11, will likely be no more.
Megan Romer attends the public session of the Congress of the European Left Party in Brussels, Belgium, on April 18, 2026. Olivier Hoslet/EPA / Shutterstock
During a Fox News interview final month, Shannon Bream requested national co-chair Megan Romer whether or not the DSA would defund the Pentagon. “Absolutely,” Romer mentioned with alacrity.
Romer agrees along with her fellow DSA stalwart, Melat Kiros, the Democratic nominee for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, that America is in charge for every thing. Kiros insists that US policy made 9/11 “inevitable.” Even unlawful immigration is someway America’s fault. Romer says unlawful immigration to the United States is because of America “destabilizing countries in order to mine them for resources.”
Give Romer and her confreres credit for consistency. It’s not simply that they abhor pillars of American greatness like personal duty, freedom of speech, and free markets. They additionally love the avatars of anti-Americanism in Cuba and Iran and jihadists in every single place. Whenever a regime, no matter how craven, stands in opposition to the United States, it might rely on their encouragement.
According to the DSA, Israel is the only real nation rivaling the United States in its depravity. DSA darling Darializa Avila Chevalier, poised be elected to Congress in November, believes that “Israel doesn’t exist.” She has by no means apologized for collaborating in a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023. When pressed by David Remnick of The New Yorker, Romer defended Avila Chevalier and mentioned that she “probably would have” attended the rally herself. Romer additionally known as Hamas’ Oct. 7 rampage “largely inevitable.”
Darializa Avila Chevalier attends a Get Out the Vote Rally at Thomas Jefferson Park in Manhattan on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Robert Miller for NY Post
Some of the DSA’s assist may be defined by the folly of youth. The DSA, whose average age is about 30, is remarkably younger and naïve. Its ranks are full of Millennials and Zoomers who’ve no recollections of the Soviet Union. They assume that socialism will yield abundance relatively than destitution.
But 84-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders, the godfather of these ignoramuses, can declare no such ignorance. He lived via the horrors of Maoist China, the collapse of Soviet Communism, the immiseration of socialist utopias like Cuba and Venezuela, and the bloodthirstiness of Islamists in Iran.
Sanders’ anti-Americanism is rooted in willful ignorance. Like over 80% of DSA members aged 25 or older, he has a bachelor’s degree. Yet credentials don’t essentially confer data or knowledge. When these perpetually school juniors take pleasure in their semesters overseas in Barcelona or Paris, they fail to understand that the world welcoming them was constructed by American energy. Who polices the worldwide commons? The US Navy. Which nation underwrites the financial system whose ATMs dispense Euros? The United States.
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Polling tells us that DSA voters are overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly school educated. They are overwhelmingly not the proletariat. Theirs is the ignorant idealism of Lenin and Trotsky. In case you missed that day at school, this earlier era of “socialists” didn’t merely fail to make the Soviet Union great. They destroyed their nation, their people, and their world.
That’s precisely the DSA’s agenda for America.
Daniel J. Samet is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow on the American Enterprise Institute.
