[Federalist] Protests raged at more than 1,200 French high schools in a single week, with arson, blockades, attacks, and clashes with police. This is not a student movement grown out of control, it is a legitimacy crisis in action.
In the U.S., the plan for a similar rejection of government authority metastasized from sporadic anti-ICE violence in the 2010s to the burning of police stations and major city blocks in 2020, the roadblocks by Gaza protesters in 2024, and the dramatic anti-federal uprising in Minneapolis in January 2026.
The plan to smuggle in a revolution is in full swing. That’s what democratic socialism is — an explicit revolution. The U.S. Constitution and democratic socialism cannot coexist, and yet an adherent of that alien form of government, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is again considered a potential front-runner for the U.S. presidency in 2028. And People magazine is much friendlier to AOC than it ever was to Bernie Sanders.
About their aims, don’t believe me, believe their own program. The Democratic Socialists of America on its official website calls for a new constitution, abolition of the Senate and Electoral College, and replacement of the presidency and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. This movement is growing and must be understood as a literal plan for revolution.
Socialist Strength in the U.S.
Many of us read in history books about the rise of socialism and communism in the U.S., beginning in the 19th century, but the movement is closer to political power today than its most famous American predecessors ever came. Socialist Party nominee Eugene V. Debs received roughly 900,000 votes nationwide in the 1912 presidential election. Bernie Sanders received 13.2 million in the 2016 Democratic nominating contest alone, nearly 15 times as many votes, while the voting-eligible population had grown by only about ninefold.
Members of this revolutionary party are firmly ensconced in our national legislature. A 2025 Cato/YouGov survey found that socialism’s favorable rating among Democrats was 17 percentage points higher than capitalism’s: 67 percent versus 50 percent.
# id) ?>
|
