Charles Homans
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first heard Jan 2026
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Right.
And and the fact of DSA's success has really shown a spotlight on the organization this year, which remember is not actually a political party.
They have this kind of interesting, I think, unstable relationship with the Democratic Party, where they're really mostly operating inside of that party at this point, but the DSA is not taking out Republicans.
They're taking out other Democrats, and they're increasingly taking out not just moderate establishment Democrats.
Democrats, but actually pretty progressive Democrats in some cases.
And so for the rest of the Democratic Party, they're looking at the success and wondering, you know, what is this costing us?
Right.
And all that has raised some really existential questions, I think, about the DSA in this moment, both in terms of its relationship to the Democratic Party, but also questions about the organization itself and how it should move forward.
Democrats and Democratic socialists are are looking at each other right now and asking, are we on the same team?
Do we share the same goals?
Does the Democratic Party want the DSA inside of it?
And does the DSA really even want to become a wing of the Democratic Party?
Well, let's start with what DSA officially believes.
And it's worth bracketing this.
You know, there's a national DSA organization.
There are individual chapters all over the country, and then there are DSA candidates.
The national DSA does not necessarily hold all the same views as DSA candidates, and it doesn't necessarily hold all the same views even as individual DSA chapters.
This is a very diffuse horizontal organization.
Mm-hmm.
But they do have a national platform, which has a pretty straightforward program of what they want, which ranges from things that are fairly familiar to things that are really much further out there on the radical spectrum of what we talk about in American politics.
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