The Democratic Socialists of America have openly set a goal that looks a lot like communism, sparking a direct clash between media defenders and those warning of the historic costs of such an agenda. This piece lays out the public statements, the media response, and the stark historical reality that should make every American pause.
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins pushed back at President Trump after he labeled the Democratic Socialists of America as “communists,” arguing in a widely circulated remark that ““While Democrats themselves have been wrestling with what Tuesday night means for the direction of their party, socialism, much less democratic socialism, is not communism.” Her reaction framed the debate as one over words and labels rather than over concrete objectives, and the exchange quickly turned into a debate about intent versus rhetoric. For many conservatives, that distinction feels like splitting hairs when leaders are stating their long-term aims out loud.
President Trump is, of course, correct in reading intent from public statements, and this is not merely partisan conjecture. A senior voice associated with the DSA publicly declared ambitions that go well beyond standard reformist talk and squarely into revolutionary territory. When an organization repeatedly names a radical endgame, dismissing those words as mere sloganeering understates the stakes for the country.
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“Our goal is communism,” Jenkins said. It doesn’t get much clearer than that. That sentence is not a policy paper nuance or a clipped soundbite; it is an explicit statement of aim, spoken plainly and without qualification, and that clarity demands a straightforward response from anyone who values constitutional order and individual liberty.
So he knows what the organization’s goals are. This is not speculative analysis pieced together from offhand comments or anonymous sources; it is a leader saying, in simple terms, where they want the movement to end up. Americans should be allowed to evaluate political actors based on what those actors say they want.
Yes, they do. Communism killed 100 million in the 20th century, and they see that as a feature, not a bug. That grim tally is a matter of historical record and not an opinion to be brushed aside for convenience, and calling attention to it is not an invocation of fear for its own sake but a sober reminder of what large-scale, state-directed economic and social experiments have produced when ideology trumped freedom.
It is true. When people tell you who they are, believe them. A political movement that openly embraces a totalizing economic doctrine deserves to be treated as more than a style or a policy preference; it should be judged on the outcomes that ideology has repeatedly produced across the globe, and voters have every right to weigh that record when deciding who to support.
This movement must be nipped in the bud. Communism is bloody, violent, oppressive, and will impoverish all of us. Confronting this openly stated ambition does not amount to hysterical scaremongering but to a clear-eyed defense of prosperity, civil society, and the liberties that make a free nation worth preserving.
