Posted on 08/11/2025 5:49:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
'We can win the Democratic primary in 2028,' one convention delegate says.
CHICAGO—The Democratic Socialists of America sent a clear message to Democrats during its biennial convention: We're in charge now. Zohran Mamdani's surprise win wasn't an anomaly, delegates said, but rather the start of the DSA's rise to power over the Democratic Party.
Roughly 1,200 DSA members gathered over the weekend at McCormick Place, Chicago's convention center, to solidify the party's platform. Tickets for the three-day convention, attended by the Washington Free Beacon, cost $225 and required party membership. Attendees were also required to submit proof of a negative COVID test prior to arrival. A convention live-stream was exclusive to registered DSA members. In-person attendees, primarily delegates elected by their local DSA chapters and a few observers, were requested to keep the convention center's location confidential. Only delegates could deliver two-minute speeches supporting or opposing resolutions, which required a two-thirds majority to pass. Most speakers identified themselves only by their first name, last initial, and home chapter.
Delegates celebrated Mamdani's win. More importantly, they said he served as a template for future candidates.
"We need to run campaigns that win. Campaigns like Zohran Mamdani, which put forward a bold vision of a socialist society," Nate K., a delegate from Atlanta, said during a speech Saturday morning debating a resolution on whether to put forth a socialist candidate in 2028. "Zohran shows that Palestine is a winning issue. That socialism is a winning issue."
"The time for protest campaigns and messaging is over. The time for winning is now," he continued. "We can win the Democratic primary in 2028. There's polls now that show that a majority of the Democratic primary electorate supports Palestine and would want a Democratic socialist to win the presidential primary in 2028."
Another delegate, Jesse B. from central Indiana, suggested during a speech on the same motion that the DSA has the opportunity to seize power with the Democratic Party's favorability ratings in the tank.
"The Democratic Party is dying. They have less support than the Republican Party," he said.
Indeed, the Democratic establishment has slowly but surely begun recognizing and praising Mamdani. While some top Democrats were reportedly gripped by "absolute panic and fear" following his victory, Mamdani earned an endorsement from Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, praise from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, and a meeting with House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries.
DSA delegates passed a number of resolutions to amend the party's platform while periodically waving Communist Party flags. It was the DSA's first convention since Oct. 7—the party addressed Hamas's terrorist massacre by adopting an anti-Israel resolution between "Free Palestine" and "Death to the IDF" chants.
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Communism fails.
They look like a bunch of turd worlders, which is what we would become were we stupid enough to put them in power.
Sounds great on paper but when put into practice it has never worked and never will. The ones that know this and still extoll it’s virtues are the real evil ones that want to maintain power with an iron fist. It’s really sad.
Is there a difference between the current Democrat party and the Socialists/Communists? The only difference I see is the Socialists are public in their desires while the Democrats are slightly more discreet. In the end, the Democrat party will cease to exist as a viable political party as the voters see the party for what it is.
Sounds like the convention was a good opportunity to arrest them all. I bet most of them have warrants of some kinds. Oh well...
Obama really transformed the Democrat Party.
Stocking decisions based up keeping the ‘population in mind’ is just another way of saying the government will determine and only provide what the government decides you need. IOW, no milk after you seventh birthday.
Under socialism, your funds will be taxed to the point where you will be unable to pay more for anything not provided by the government.
DSA’s rise to power over the Democratic Party.
Removed mask we knew that.
and i bet they also used walls to keep out the freeloaders and riffraff ...
The morons waving signs that say Socialism beats Fascism. They are too damn stupid to understand that Fascism is Socialism. They are not opposites. They are the same damn thing with different names.
Mussolini was a socialist.
So was Hitler.
Do they REALLY think that We The People will buy into this Socialist/Marxist/Communist makeover of America?
DSA’s 2021 platform, its most recent, calls for:
• abolishing the Electoral College, Senate, and filibuster;
• ending first-past-the-post in favor of proportional representation;
• raising the minimum wage;
• a job guarantee;
• Medicare for All;
• free child care for all;
• free college for all;
• public development banks;
• social housing;
• democratic and social ownership of the means of production;
• a Green New Deal;
• a just transition for fossil fuel workers;
• abortion and fertility care on demand;
• anti-racism;
• reparations for slavery;
• abolishing police and prisons “in the long term”;
• abolishing ICE;
• anti-imperialism;
• withdrawal from NATO;
• normalizing relations with China, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran;
• anti-Zionism;
• Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel;
• abolishing USAID, NED, and VOA; and
• D.C. statehood;
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