Another Day Another DSA

in d+29 colorado 1st district

It’s getting to be regular order. A young DSA immigrant ingénue wins a Democratic primary in a D+20 district. The latest is Melat Kiros:

Melat was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, just weeks before her father was selected by the United States’ Diversity Visa Lottery. Seeking out community and support from other Ethiopian immigrants, her family moved to Denver, Colorado.

Now she’s a lawyer and a hard-left socialist, and likely to win the 1st Congressional District in Colorado, which is D+29 according to Wikipedia. At least hard-left DSA NY Candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to Dominican immigrants.

The question that experts are puzzling over is whether the DSA surge is a cunning plan that will take over the United States, or whether it is a Baldrick’s Cunning Plan that ends in disaster.

My non-expert guess is that the DSA candidates are going to encourage ordinary middle-class voters to come out and vote Republican. There is no politics without an enemy, and the whole point of populist nationalism is to fight the educated class domination and hegemony to a draw.

I’m reading a long critique of the populist movement — particularly in Europe — by Eugyppius, in which he criticizes the populists for being too amateurish and too disorganized. Obviously the right-wing populists are the opposite of the hard-left DSA bunch who are highly organized trained activists that seem to be taking over the Democratic Party without even firing a shot.

But I think that the populist nationalist movement is disorganized by necessity. If it were organized then the establishment would play the Nazi Card and demolish the populists. Of course, they play the Nazi Card anyway, but since all the populist leaders — except perhaps Tommy Robinson in UK — project a just-folks vibe, the Nazi Card doesn’t work too well. Guess why Nigel Farage likes to be photographed with a pint of beer in his hand.

It’s interesting, and it makes sense. The populist movement is not really a movement to gain political power. Ordinary people don’t think that politics can do much for them; they just want to live their ordinary lives in peace — but don’t you dare cut my Social Security. Establishment figures in the Democratic Party want to climb the greasy pole according to the current rules. But the DSA folks are revolutionaries; they want to burn the place down.

Here’s my take. I suspect that revolution only works after defeat in war. Russia in 1917 was wrecked by World War I. Germany was wrecked by the punitive Versailles treaty. China was wrecked by the combination of the Japanese and the various rebel armies marching around raping and pillaging. They were ripe for revolution.

Perhaps it is true that the Democratic Party right now is semi-wrecked by a generation of incompetents, from Obama to Biden to Harris. That makes the party vulnerable to attack from populists on the right and DSA crazies on the left.

And here is another idea, that the current political situation is similar to the runup to the Civil War. The North was industrializing and flooding with immigrants from potato-famine Ireland and Germany. The South was defending the old ways, of slave plantations, that had served them well for generations. But the North said: enough already, and the South said: No.

Let’s describe the current situation as tech lords trying to implement AI on the one hand, and Organized Crime Democrats trying to keep the grift going on the other hand.

Perhaps the Colorado 8th District, with lefty (but not DSA) State Rep. Manny Rutinel winning the Democratic primary, will tell us the real story in November. The District is north of Denver up to, but not including Boulder, home of the University of Colorado, or Fort Collins, home of Colorado State University. When I visit relatives in Loveland we drive through this district on the way to and from the airport. It is pure modern suburban sprawl, voting D+0, and is represented by Republican Gabe Evans. It’s 51.7% White and 38.5% Hispanic.

Keep your eye on that race if you want to know the direction of the USA.