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Mottur’s concern is practical as much as patriotic. A party that opposes protecting people from crime, he argues, cannot win a national election. It can’t win Michigan. It can’t win the Senate. It can’t win anything that requires persuading voters who care about their safety, their neighborhoods, and whether the government that takes their taxes is actually on their side.
Here’s what Mottur still won’t say out loud, and what conservatives need to say for him: the DSA didn’t sneak into the Democratic Party through a back door. It was invited in. Welcomed in. Celebrated in. The same establishment figures now wringing their hands about socialist takeover spent years accommodating, platforming, and in many cases funding the movement that produced AOC, Mamdani, and a House progressive caucus that just published a resolution calling for packing the Supreme Court and killing the filibuster.
The DSA isn’t a parasite. It’s the logical endpoint of choices the Democratic mainstream made freely over a generation — moving left on crime, left on borders, left on capitalism, left on America itself, always chasing the activist energy that turned out to be a tiger they couldn’t ride.
And now the tiger is driving.
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