The Democrat Party is being led by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and according to a moderate Democrat, they're not even actual Democrats.
Democrat analyst Melissa DeRosa told the “Curtis Sliwa and Lary Mendte in the Morning” podcast in January that the DSA has left their father's Democrat Party.
“It really is about class warfare and tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich, the oligarchy, the patriarchy, and that we — you can't have anyone go up unless we tear other people down,” DeRosa said.
She told Fox & Friends if the party succumbs, moderates will be politically homeless.
“If we lose this war in the next couple of years, I fear we're going to be in the wilderness for a very long time. And there are, to your point, a lot of moderate Democrats who are feeling very politically homeless right now who are looking for the center,” DeRosa said.
In These Times published an article in February how DSA has turned into a “movement party” as the DSA reached 100,000 members. Mamdani, who is a DSA activist, brought attention to the group with his mayoral election. Roughly 14,000 of the DSA members are based in New York City.
Gary Bauer of American Values says the only thing Democrat Socialists are offering the country is envy and rage, but they're still getting a hearing from voters.
“We live in a time of anger and rage, sadly, and I'm not sure it's going to go away anytime soon. And so, the Democrat Socialists of America, in many ways, this is a time for them,” Bauer says.
He states that if the Democrats win in November, the DSA will set the agenda for the country.
“It's actually growing in power. This is particularly true in America's big cities. There are some difficult days ahead,” Bauer says.
