No one who’s kept up with U.S. politics even minimally over the last four decades should be surprised that the Democratic Party has been the launching pad for a wave of socialism. The party has long been rooted in socialist principles. It was inevitable that what the Democrats have long covered up is now out in the open and its zealots adherents are threatening our republic.

Granted, the wave is not overwhelming and our country has survived previous flirtations with socialism. But the boldness from the outright socialists, who are hiding behind the label of “democratic socialists,” cannot be waved away, and the Democratic Party will be responsible for the damage that the Democratic Socialists of America will wreak if voters don’t turn away the slate of the most radical candidates we’ve seen in some time.

There is a reason that Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders first caucused with, then ran for president as a member of, the Democratic Party. Contempt for limited government and economic freedom (which naturally begets capitalism) has long been a main chapter in the Democrats’ handbook.

Redistributing wealth to increase political power is not a new idea for them. Neither is their disdain for secure borders nor animosity toward their country. Democrats have sympathized with leftist dictators, from Fidel Castro to Daniel Ortega to Hugo Chavez while crusading for the seizure of private property and the means of production. The seeds that sprouted into hatred for Israel and Jews abroad were planted, watered and fertilized by yesterday’s more mainstream Democrats. Both the new and old have agitated for chaos so that they we are more easily divided and then conquered — because who else could fix the country’s problems other than someone who is willing to knock heads and put boots on necks?

Today’s new socialists sit firmly on a straight line from the 1960s leftist radicals. Like their forebears, they lump their many causes under a big umbrella not so they can address multiple grievances but because the only issue was, and still is, the revolution. Toppling our system is the only goal. Democrats have not only declined to turn away from this thinking, they have nurtured it, and it has come back around to the incrementalists as they are eaten one by one, from California state senator and U.S. House hopeful Scott Wiener to the many not-left-enough politicians who recently lost their primaries.

As far as we can tell, few Democrats are publicly resisting the socialist swell. Instead, they want their version of a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to keep the communism-now Democrats at bay. For instance, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has “embraced a new crop of congressional nominees … including three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates.” Yet he has not escaped their wrath. The DSA faithful have warned him that “you’re next.”

A monster has been loosed on this country, and though still an infant, there’s reason to be concerned that it will too soon become fully grown and begin to consume our republic. Democrats, who have been closeted socialists for at least a couple of generations, are to blame. They’ve been setting up the revolution for decades. How they react will have a significant impact on our future.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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