26 Aug

DSA? What’s That all About?

For most of American history, the word socialist conjured Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Castro, which is why calling yourself one was considered political suicide in this country. Then Bernie Sanders rebranded it as something gentler and more Scandinavian in variety, not to be feared. But now, August 2026, the word Socialist has taken on a much-expanded meaning embracing the words Authoritarian, Progressive, Statist, Communist and an ill-defined “Democratic Socialists of America” (DSA). Who are these DSA proponents and what do they believe in?
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