Questions

Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) crushed his DSA backed opponent, Kai Newkirk, taking 2/3s of the vote in Tuesday’s democratic primary. Do you consider this to be a good thing or a bad thing?

Greg Stanton triumphs over DSA-backed opponent in latest socialist challenge - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4658299/greg-stanton-beats-dsa-backed-opponent-latest-socialist-challenge/

The debate over the DSA often gets reduced to policies people associate with Nordic or Scandinavian countries—healthcare, stronger unions, expanded social programs, and a larger welfare state.

But the Democratic Socialists of America are proposing much more than that.

Their current national program says the working class needs “a new political system.” It calls for abolishing the Electoral College, replacing the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress, and abolishing the Senate.

That is why I find it so troubling when people defend the economic policies they like while seemingly ignoring the far more sweeping changes the DSA wants to make to the structure of the federal government.

You can support those changes if that is honestly your position. I strongly oppose them. But they should at least be acknowledged and debated openly rather than treated like an insignificant footnote.

My question is whether support for the more appealing progressive policies causes too many people to overlook just how radical the DSA’s broader political agenda actually is.